Announce a retirement on the front page of a newspaper dated their last day. The lead story tells the career, the headline gives the years served, and the rest of the page is the real history of that date. It takes about a minute, and you can make and download the whole front page free.
The paper is dated their last day at work, or the day of the send-off. It can be up to a year ahead, so it is ready before the party.
The lead article looks back on what they did and what they were known for: the job, the story colleagues still retell, and what comes next. Give us the year they started and the headline can carry the years served.
Above the stories sit the number-one songs, the film everyone was seeing and the prices from the year they started. They are real records looked up for that year.
One person fills in the wizard, but the details do not have to come from one person. Collecting a line or two from around the team first is the difference between a nice page and one that makes the room laugh.
Teachers retire at the end of the school year, and the staff room usually marks it. Tell us what they taught and what the pupils called them, and the lead story is built from that.
A front page gets framed. That is most of the case for it as a leaving gift.
Their name, the day they retire and the year they started. What they did and one story about them are optional and make it theirs.
Send a private reveal link with your message attached, or download the page and present it on the day.
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Their last day at work, or the day of the leaving party if that is when you will hand it over. It can be up to a year from today. You also give the year they started, and we count the years served from it.
Yes. We work it out from the year they started and the year they retire, and the headline can carry it, as in "after 32 years".
Yes, the same wizard. Tell it the subject, the school they are leaving and a story the staff room tells about them.
There is no group-signing feature; one person fills in the wizard. The usual approach is to collect a line each from the team first and put the best of them into the story questions.
Say it the way a colleague would, not the way a job title would. That is what the story questions are for, and every one of them is optional.
No. It is a new page composed today and styled like a newspaper. The retirement story is written from what you tell us, and the rest of the page is real history from that calendar date.
Yes. Upload an image under 3MB and it runs with the lead story. You confirm you have the right to use the person's details and photo before the page is typeset.
Yes. Use the custom occasion in the wizard and describe the group rather than one person.
No. Making the front page and downloading it are free, with no watermark and nothing to pay at the end.
Yes. The page is composed from the real events of that date as they were reported around the world, so a personalised retirement newspaper for a British, Irish or Australian career fills exactly the same way. The download works from anywhere.
No. The edition is a digital download at high resolution. Most people take that file to a print shop and hand over something framed on the day.