Chris Ratcliffe

Personal news alert... after 20 amazing years I am leaving Scholastic. Way too much to put in a tweet so I've written about it here. bit.ly/44VsYY7 If that's a click too far, I've loved every second at Scholastic, but the lure of working for @cosydirect was too great!

Internal Furnishing Supplier of the Year... Good job!

📝Congratulations to our Year 13 students on their fantastic A-level results! 🎓 “Lionheart students achieved over 10% more A*–C grades than the East Midlands average,” said CEO Kath Kelly. 📖Read more⤵️ 🔗lionhearttrust.org.uk/news/lionheart…

Have a local play park? The Scottish Government wants to hear from YOU! 🧸 Help @PlayScotland shape the future of play spaces for our children. 🕖 It only takes 7 minutes 👉 forms.office.com/e/WkPx8TnJwW

💫 “It’s a huge privilege to win a Kings award for sustainable development for the second time. And I’m grateful to the Kings award team for spurring us on to save more energy, employ more local people and build British fashion skills here in Derbyshire." @davidnieper 👏

@chrisdysonHT a much better season than I normally have!!

And they’re off! 🚴💪🎉 The CosyChild Bike & Hike is underway! Our team is tackling a 100-mile ride to Skegness & a new 20-mile walk to Ashbourne. It’s the 12th SkegVegas 100—supporting Derby Kids Camp & Derbyshire Children’s Holiday Centre. 💚 Donate: justgiving.com/campaign/cosyc…

@PrimaryEnglish @frankcottrell_b Makes me feel old!!

@frankcottrell_b That wasn’t 20 years ago, surely!

Twenty years ago I wrote the most housing-estate-on-the-edge-of-Northern-Industrial-City book ever written. This week the World Premier of the musical opens ... in Atlanta Georgia ... Stories do make their own way encoremagazine.com/atlanta/allian…

@cosydirect 1 definitely. 2 maybe. 3 never.

Number 1! It can only ever be the original Creme Egg 😍

@dawnhallybone We were up to date, it was a mid season break

@chrisrat Yes we were just talking about it this morning but I have no idea where I was last up to 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

@dawnhallybone Grey’s is back #HowLongHaveWeBeenDoingThisFor?!

Buzzing around Spielwarenmesse! cosydirect.com/count-and-sort…

This is such great news. Wonderful to work with the @Petersbooks team on this project.

We're thrilled to share the longlist for the Derby Children’s Picture Book Award 2025. Huge congratulations @lantanapub @AndersenPress @templarbooks @scholastic_uk #greystonekidsbooks @HachetteKids @WalkerBooksUK @OxfordChildrens #littletigerbooks #puffinbooksuk @FlyingEyeBooks

@Animate2Educate @caroljallen @cosydirect Fabulous as always @Animate2Educate - loved it.

Lovely evening in Tamworth with Carol Allen and Chris Ratcliffe tonight. Fabulous company and great conversation with two of my favourite people. @caroljallen @chrisrat @cosydirect

Some of our Cosy team had the pleasure of attending the Nursery Management Today Awards in London— a truly insightful day meeting so many talented individuals. We were delighted to have been awarded Supplier of the Year for Equipment and Services! This is a real accomplishment and something the whole team are proud of.

Women are used to be underestimated, overlooked and unappreciated. @MASieghart calls it 'the authority gap.'

@cosydirect A great photo. Those samosas were incredible!

Over £400 was raised across the day! Massive thanks to Dharmesh and Manish for donating a whopping 100 samosas to our fundraiser this morning! Happy Diwali 🪔

It’s been a fantastic day of fun and fundraising at Cosy HQ today. Staff have held a bake sale and pumpkin carving competition to raise money for MacMillan Cancer Support.

Thank you Sheena, it’s a great cause and our social team really outdid themselves too!

Spooky ⁦@macmillancancer⁩ coffee ☕️morning at ⁦@cosydirect⁩ today. We raised over £400 and had a great time with fancy dress, pumpkin 🎃 carving and cake 🎂 competitions. We also had some amazing samosas to celebrate Diwali 🎆🎇

Statement on Washington Post’s refusal to endorse presidential candidate.