Reade Blog

As museums and heritage sites begin to open in the next few weeks, they’ll be keen to ensure both employees and visitors support social distancing measures as well as promote hygiene. The trick will be to protect against the further spread of coronavirus, while ensuring all visits are a fun and enjoyable experience. Being COVID-secure will include minimising face-to-face contact by selling pre-booked tickets, spaced queues and designated entry and exit points. Screens and sanitation stations will also protect staff and visitors at information points as well as in museum shops and refreshment areas. We already work with museums and heritage sites to provide wayfinding signage and our experts have a good understanding of the needs of visitors and staff in sometimes complex buildings. Points of focus will be: safe entry and exit, social distancing around exhibits, maintaining one-way flow, limiting numbers of people in lifts and keeping refreshment areas safe. If you’re not sure where to get started, you can find out more about our services on our dedicated social distancing and signage for museums website page. We’ve also created a brochure for museums with some simple options. However, we are able to create any design, size or format to meet the needs of your museum’s brand. Here are some signage and graphics options you may need to consider: Social distancing floor graphics, posters and wall graphics Perspex shields for ticket offices Barriers Clear one-way directional signage Signs for closed off areas Lift notices Hand sanitising stations Museum cafe and shop signage Internal and external signage about COVID-19 and safety Bespoke signage requirements. If you’d like to find out more, please visit our social distancing graphics and signage for museums page, call us on 01252 336 000 or email enquiry@readesigns.com.

As schools tentatively look to return to face-to-face teaching for some school years, headteachers will be keen to ensure their school supports social distancing and promotes cleanliness to protect pupils and teachers from the spread of coronavirus. We already work with schools, colleges and universities and we’ve been in regular conversation with them about signage and graphics requirements. Points of concern include: ensuring safe drop-off and pick-up for parents and children, social distancing in classrooms, limiting access to library books, maintaining one-way traffic in corridors and staircases, protecting reception staff, and making breaks and lunchtimes safe. If you’re not sure where to get started, you can find out more about our services on our dedicated social distancing and signage for schools website page. We’ve also created a brochure for schools with some simple and child-friendly options. However, we are able to create any design, size or format to meet the needs of your school or to match your school colours. Here are some signage and graphics options you may need to consider: Signage to encourage safe drop-off and pick-up Social distancing floor graphics Posters to encourage social distancing and cleanliness Social distancing wall graphics Warning floor tape or directional arrows Directional signage for stairs and corridors Canteen signage School library signage Hand sanitiser stations Perspex shields for school reception Internal and external signage about COVID-19 and safety Bespoke signage requirements. If you’d like to find out more, please visit our social distancing graphics and signage for schools page, call us on 01252 336 000 or email enquiry@readesigns.com.

The Government looks set to recommend floor signage, one-way flow routes and desk screens in the workplace to support social distancing when the lockdown starts to be relaxed. We’re already working with property clients and public facilities to supply on-site social distancing graphics and signage. Social distancing for marketing suites will be another important area of focus as the property market starts to open up again. We’re reviewing requirements, such as: social distancing signage, directional and queuing signage, perspex screens, furniture and adaptations to layout, and installing hand sanitiser stations inside and out. Our team is supporting clients with standard and branded social distancing graphics and signage, including: Social distancing floor graphics Social distancing posters Social distancing wall graphics Perspex shields Building site social distancing signage Directional signage Internal and external signage about COVID-19 and safety Marketing suite social distancing graphics Bespoke signage requirements. If you’d like to find out more, please visit our Social Distancing Graphics page, call us on 01252 336 000 or email enquiry@readesigns.com.

What happens if your hoarding, signage or flags have been damaged in some way and you just haven’t seen them? As part of our regular work, we ensure that clients’ signage is always in tip-top shape and looking great – not just when we install, but over the long-term too. Even if your site or new development is currently closed, people out taking their daily exercise or shopping and key workers, will still be seeing your brand every day so it’s important to maintain the quality of your marketing. Site hoarding is most at risk of damage due to its positioning between a building site and sometimes busy roads. Other signage like banners and flags, which have a three-month life-cycle, can also be subject to wear and tear, weather damage, or vandalism. To help our clients, we’re offering a ‘check and correct’ maintenance service. We’ll assess the condition of your hoarding and signage from the roadside and provide photographs for you. If needed, we can then quote for cleaning, repair or replacement, which will be carried out within social distancing guidelines. If you’d like to find out more, please get in touch with James Herbst on 07471 227 980 or Ed Hayden on 07471 518028 or email enquiry@readesigns.com

We all know chocolate can bring happiness so we thought, with everything that’s going on right now, it’s time to sprinkle some positivity this Easter. We’re giving away £40 worth of delicious chocolate from Hotel Chocolat to the winner of our prize draw and Hotel Chocolat vouchers worth £10 each to two runners-up. We’ve hidden a selection of Easter images on the Reade Signs website www.readesigns.com. All you have to do is count up how many of each character you can find and email chloem@readesigns.com to let us know what you found e.g. three bunnies, two eggs and one chick! All entries need to be submitted by email before 5pm on Thursday 30th April. Winners will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers. There are three different characters to be found across our website, an example of each is below (these don’t count in the final total). Happy Easter and good luck! Terms and Conditions: The winners will be randomly selected from all the entries and notified the week after the closing date. Reade Signs will contact you directly if you have won and will publicly announce the winner on the same date. The prizes will be sent to the winner via post after the winners have been announced. Only one entry per individual. If you submit multiple entries, only your first entry will be considered. Prizes are non-transferrable and there is no cash alternative. Reade Signs will treat your contact details with utmost care and will never share it with third parties. If you enter this competition, you will be notified by email of the winning entry. Any data you provide when entering this competition will not be kept. Submitting an entry constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these terms and conditions, which shall be final and binding on all matters relating to the competition. The competition is open to UK residents only.