Dear Lion Supporter,

Welcome to my first newsletter with prayer points. We have recently held our Annual General Meeting of shareholders complete with Annual Report for 2015-16 including audited accounts and I give thanks for it! Please do read the publishing highlights of last year. At the meeting I was able to share that earlier this month Canon Andrew White’s book My Journey So Far won the CRT Book of the Year award 2016 and The Unofficial Bible for Minecrafters won the CRT Children’s & Youth Book of the Year 2016.

As you may know my first six months in office have not been without challenges and have required complete dependence on the Lord. Not least in losing a vibrant member of the Lion family: Nick Jones. We are currently planning a Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Nick Jones to take place at St. Aldate’s Church, Oxford at 2pm on Tuesday 29th of November. We invite all supporters, staff, the book trade and international publishing partners to attend.

Amazingly we are amongst an international family of believers who are even today being tested, but we can give thanks for many blessings in recent months: staff returning from maternity leaves; a member of staff getting married; three new recruits; safe domestic and international travel for the sales team including the Spanish language event Expolit 2016 in Miami, a tour of East & South Africa and a positive sales conference covering books to be published in early 2017 by our 8 client publishers and ourselves.

Please do remember to keep us in your prayers.

Prayer Points: Pray that we may all be restored and made strong in Christ, he is the power.

Please pray for: •The good commissioning of new books from authors, illustrators and partners •Fair sales terms and pricing to cover our labour costs of making and selling books • Safe travel at home & abroad with good deals during Frankfurt Book Fair (19-23 Oct) •Asmoothtransitionforourbankingarrangements&agoodtenantforournortheastwing •The leadership team at Lion Hudson *

Please give thanks for: •Goodsupplierswhoareaccommodatingourbusinessneedsandpatientlenders •Robust IT systems to support of our people and encourage our daily work •The September royalty statements & payments from our new system *A reminder that the leadership team are: Non-Executive Chairman, Nicholas Gray and Non-Executive Director, Alice Lawhead.

Executive Directors: Suzanne Wilson-Higgins (Managing Director), Caroline Gregory (Finance & Shared Services Director) & Andrew Hodder-Williams (Publishing Director). Heads of Department: Chris Atkinson (Head of International Sales), Becki Bradshaw (Head of Adult Commissioning), Jonathan Carr (Head of Production), Lynne Humphreys (Head of Children’s Editorial) , Leisa Nugent (Head of Marketing), Jonathan Roberts (Head of Design), Stephen Wall (Head of IT & Facilities), Rob Wendover (Head of Export Sales) and Andrew Wormleighton (Head of EU Sales)

OCTOBER 2016