One Big Board That a Whole Room Can Read

In a hall, a lecture theatre or a busy ward, the people who most need to see a notice are often the furthest from it. The NB1863GR answers that with an extra-large surface, the biggest in its combination range, so a notice, a schedule or a chart can be read from the back of a large room rather than crowded onto a board too small for the space. It splits into two surfaces with two jobs, a grey felt half that pins notices and printed sheets that stay put, and a dry-wipe half for the updates and schedules that change through the week. Both are non-magnetic, so the felt takes pins and the dry-wipe half takes pens. A wood-effect frame and neutral grey felt keep it looking professional in a public or academic interior, and a sustainably sourced core makes it a greener choice for a board of this scale. A 2-year guarantee backs it. Best suited for assembly halls, lecture theatres and NHS coordination areas where information must be seen across a large, busy room.

What Makes This Large Combination Board Stand Out

• Sized to be seen across a room: The extra-large surface is the biggest in its range, built so notices, schedules and charts stay legible from the back of a hall, theatre or open-plan floor. A board this size keeps a whole room reading the same information rather than squinting at something too small for the space.
• Two surfaces for two kinds of content: A grey felt half holds notices, rotas and printed sheets on pins for the long term, while the dry-wipe half takes the messages and schedules that change often. Standing information and daily updates sit side by side on one fixture, each on the surface that suits it, with no magnets needed on either.
• A greener board at scale: A sustainably sourced core gives a large board a lighter environmental footprint than a conventional one, so an organisation can equip a big room while keeping to a green buying policy. The eco build is part of the board rather than an add-on, even at this size.
• Neutral look for any setting: The grey felt and wood-effect frame give a calm, professional finish that sits comfortably in a school, an office or a healthcare space without drawing the eye away from the content on it. It reads as part of a considered interior rather than a purely functional fitting.
• Mounts as one fixture, not two: Bringing a pinboard and a writing board together on one frame means a single wall mounting rather than two separate boards to align and fix. That saves wall space in a busy room and keeps the two surfaces neatly together where people expect to find them.
• Built for daily, high-traffic use: A 2-year guarantee backs a board made to take constant pinning and writing in a demanding setting, from a school hall to a hospital corridor. It is built to keep performing under the heavy, shared use a large public board sees every day.

Where an Extra-Large Combination Board Earns Its Place

Size is the reason this board exists in the form it does. A notice only works if the people it is meant for can actually read it, and in a sizeable hall, auditorium or open-plan floor a standard board leaves anyone past the front rows guessing. A surface this wide shows text and charts at a size that stays readable from across the room, so a single board can serve a whole audience rather than only those nearest to it. That makes it suited to spaces where many people need the same information at the same time, and where a board too small for the room would simply be ignored by most of them.

The board is split because information behaves in two ways. Some of it is settled and stays up for weeks, such as policies, safety notices or a term plan, and belongs on a surface that holds paper without being rewritten. Other information changes constantly, such as a daily schedule or a coordination note, and needs a surface that wipes and redoes in seconds. The felt half takes the first kind on pins, the dry-wipe half takes the second with markers, and keeping them on one board means a room has a single place to look for both the fixed and the moving information rather than two competing fixtures.

The eco credentials sit in the construction. The core is sustainably sourced, so a large board, which uses a fair amount of material, draws on responsibly managed supply rather than adding unchecked to demand. For a school, hospital or business with an environmental policy, that lets a board of this scale be chosen without working against a sustainability commitment. The melamine dry-wipe surface and grey felt are chosen to wear well over years of use, since a board that lasts is itself the greener option, avoiding the waste and replacement that come with a cheaper one that fails early.

Handling a board this size is a two-person job, and the build reflects that. At its scale the board has real weight, so two people lift and position it together before fixing it to a sound wall that can carry it. Once mounted it needs little attention, since the felt half is tidied simply by taking down old material and the dry-wipe half cleans with a dry cloth and an occasional whiteboard cleaner for heavier marks. Using dry-wipe rather than permanent pens keeps the writing surface in good order, and a 2-year guarantee stands behind the board through its working life.

What Ships in Your Pack

• 1 x eco combination board (grey felt and dry-wipe, wood-effect frame)
• 1 x wall mounting kit with fixings