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MESSAGE FROM MEMBERSHIP
BY PHIL BRIDGEMAN MEMBERSHIP MANAGER AT BUSINESS WEST
I hope you’ve all had a fantastic Christmas break and are feeling refreshed and raring to go in 2018 and that your business will go from strength to strength. An important change for business in 2018 will be the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I’m pleased to let you know that we have now set up our new GDPR hub on
www.businesswest.co.uk under the ‘Grow’ section. It has been set up to help local businesses get ready for compliance by 25 May 2018. With more than 57% of businesses indicating that they have a basic knowledge of the regulation, it's now more important than ever to start preparing. Please continue to make the
most of your membership in 2018. Remember to raise your online
profile by keeping your company profile up-to-date and by publishing your content in the Members’ Area of our website - including your formal tenders, business opportunities, events, news and blog posts. Member offers can be published in this bi- monthly magazine – so please tell us about these. Don’t forget to make the most of
free marketing contact data worth over £650 containing approximately 1,600 business contacts. And do keep attending our
fantastic networking events – we continue to receive high praise about the positive impacts it has on connecting local businesses. We’re pleased to be hosting the Bristol Chamber Breakfast at our home, Leigh Court in January and February and hope to see you there. We'd love to hear what issues
your business is currently facing so please stay in touch. All the best for a happy and prosperous New Year!
Tel: 0800 980 2789 Email:
phil.bridgeman@businesswest.
co.uk
10 insight JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
Production agency reaches for the sky
In 2017, event production agency, Mackerel Sky Events, celebrated 10 years of success producing complex projects throughout the South West and nationally. Mackerel Sky are based in the South West and
work nationally with clients such as the BBC and the Military Wives Choirs Foundation. Recent successes include delivering the event and site operations for the Bloodhound SSC public test runs at Newquay Airport, consultancy with the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham for their Borough of Culture bid, and being awarded Arts Council England funding for the Torbay Christmas By The Sea project. The team continue to deliver on their long standing partnerships including Truro’s City of Lights (that has been postponed to 31 January 2018 due to the weather for the original date in November), the internationally successful Agile on the Beach conference, and St Ives Food & Drink Festival. Claire Eason-Bassett, executive producer, said:
“The last 10 years have been challenging and thrilling in equal measure. We get to work with brilliant people to make positive, impactful events
happen and that comes with risk. There are times we have to be brave but we love making it all work, which is why we’re still in business and growing. “2018 is looking great – new projects, great partners, ambitious plans – as well as our ongoing projects and clients. And we’re welcoming two new members to our core team.” The team continue to cultivate new talent working
with a number of universities and training providers to share their knowledge and experience and earlier this year presented at WOW Exeter and at the Local Authority Event Organisers Group Conference on effective project planning and sustainable event management. On the subject of what has made them a success,
Holly Patton, commercial director, said: “It’s all about the team. We are so much more than the sum of our parts and we have a really complimentary set of skills. We are all more than just our work and life goes on, so we work with it to ensure that we can all be the best we can be.”
For more information, contact Holly Patton on 01872 888089
holly@mackerelskyevents.co.uk
Bristol supports Key4Life
Employer concern still remains one of the most significant barriers for ex-offenders in finding work, with half of UK companies saying they would not consider employing an ex- offender and 45% were concerned ex-offenders would be unreliable. The charity, Key4Life explore
how innovative solutions in partnership with the corporate sector, to reoffending gives young offenders another chance and lasting societal rewards. Key4Life’s mission is to reduce
youth reoffending through the delivery of an innovative
rehabilitation programme to those in prison and those at risk of going to prison. The programme is underpinned by three key pillars; Emotional Resilience, Employability and On- Going Support. A Key4Life participant is four
times more likely to be employed a year after their release than their peers and four times less than likely to re-offend, due to the intervention of businesses engaged pre and post-release. Over 80 businesses support Key4Life across a range of sectors including hospitality, insurance and construction.
Key4Life is working with businesses in Bristol with participants being released from HMP/YOI Portland and HMP Guys Marsh and is looking for further business support through providing mentors, three-day work placements, jobs and training, to join Nisbets, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, BPP University and Conscious Solutions.
If you are interested in supporting the work of Key4Life please contact: Kate La Tour, corporate development manager, at
Kate.La.Tour@
Key4Life.org.uk
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