Tom Vaughton has recently launched the first ‘outdoor woodland office’ for the Varn team. The last few years has made Tom consider carefully about how to rethink the traditional office work environment to support the Varn team’s physical and mental health, as well as encouraging enjoyment and excellence at work. Tom’s talk shares details of how he has created an exciting and inspirational new workspace based in a woodland setting. He shares his learnings and best practice about encouraging and getting the most from your team, as well as helping in terms of supporting with team recruitment.
This talk will be ideal for business owners, founders, managers and anyone in a role who can influence their workplace culture and team.
About Tom
Tom Vaughton is Founder and Managing Director of Varn, a Search & Digital Marketing agency. He wants to share his ideas of how to rethink the traditional office and workspace to promote team wellbeing & productivity.
The Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Sian if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
Following the popularity of this event in April, we are delighted to be able to schedule a repeat of the workshop in June!
We’ve all seen the benchmarks, stats and case studies from unicorn agencies. But most agencies employ less than 15 people and struggle to break through the £1M revenue glass ceiling, whilst harbouring aspirations to grow beyond.
So what’s holding us back? Why can’t we break through this barrier? Why does it sometimes feel like 2 steps forward, 3 steps back? Why are our projects so difficult to deliver? How can we generate more (high quality) leads? How can we create a scalable platform to grow beyond the £1M barrier and deliver consistent, sustainable profit?
Join Janusz Stabik who’ll help you to smash through this £1M barrier. You’ll discover the agency business models that scale well, and those that don’t. We’ll review benchmarks, tactics and strategy for taking your agency to £1M and beyond. You’ll meet like-minded agency owners and you’ll leave with a spring in your step, feeling energised and excited about the future and you’ll have gained clarity on how to get there.
By the end of the workshop you will:
This workshop is aimed at agency owners/founders/directors running businesses with less than 15 employees and/or less than £1M in annual revenue.
About Janusz Stabik
Janusz is a coach and mentor to agency leaders across the globe through his coaching practice and consultancy, GYDA, where he helps agency owners to run the agency they want to run. He’s an ex-agency owner, a managing partner at GYDA and a lead coach for Google across multiple agency growth programmes throughout EMEA.
Tickets
Tickets are priced at £125+VAT for BCI members and £175+VAT for non-members. This includes refreshments and a buffet lunch. Book your place below!
This workshop will be held at Origin Workspace, 40 Berkeley Square, BS8 1HP.
The event returns to the Watershed, offering a unique chance to network with peers and learn from top brands and internationally renowned speakers against the backdrop of Bristol’s floating harbour.
Speakers:
Leticia Miranda – Lead Product Designer at Warner Bros. Discovery
Kayode Olorunfemi – VP, User Experience Need at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Alkistis Geropoulou – Head of User Centred Design at Companies House
Chris Richards – Creative Director at Nomensa
Nis Bjorn – Design Lead at MetaLab
Teak-Miu Tse – Group Director of Design Systems and Operations at Sky
Vanessa Bennett – Head of UX at Cazoo
Matt Corrall – Design Director at Ultraleap
With live music and poetry from some fantastic talent from the South West, it’s shaping up to be a must-see event on the Music and Poetry calendar.
Each performer will provide 4 or 5 minutes of their latest work.
Arrive at Square Works (17-18 Berkeley Square) for 19:30 for the event starting at 20:00. Drinks are available to purchase before the show at the Square Club next door to Square Works.
General tickets are £5, and this is to be paid on the door in cash.
As only one of three national Centres for Excellence in SEND, our award winning and worldwide recognised team deliver this incredibly informative workshop, delivered by our highly skilled and experienced neurodivergent employment specialists.
This workshop will give you an introduction to becoming an inclusive employer; providing you with the knowledge and skills required to support neurodiverse employees and customers.
This dynamic and innovative workshop will allow you to access untapped talent through an inclusive recruitment process. As a result, making reasonable adjustments in the workplace can lead to greater productivity, higher staff retention and increased income.
For a small investment of only £99 per participant (free funded spaces are available for SME’s so do reach out); you will benefit from a dedicated 1-day workshop covering Neurodivergence and Autism… what is it, how you can you champion this and make reasonable adjustment? All attendees gain a free follow up consultation with our experienced team. We can also offer Lunch and Learns or bespoke full training options for your businesses… be part of the inclusivity revolution.
The single-track event at the M Shed this time features **Jeremy Keith**, **Ire Aderinokun**, **Cassie Evans**, and six other world-class speakers. Topics covered include modern web development in the age of AI, design systems, UI animations, CSS and JavaScript best practices for more accessible websites, tools for a better CSS development and debugging workflow, and designing for international audiences.
Student tickets cost less than half the general admission price, and if you’re a member of an underrepresented or marginalised group in tech, you can apply for a [diversity scholarship] to attend the conference for free (the deadline for applications is 20 May).
To stay up to date:
The breakfast will showcase ways in which Weston College can support your business in an increasingly tight labour market and will highlight the funded upskilling and development opportunities for you and your team.
We’ve got a fantastic array of speakers lined up to include key members of the Weston College staff team and panellists from a range of businesses who have benefitted from working in partnership with their local, outstanding college:
Event Highlights:
08.00 Arrival, breakfast and networking
08.30 Dave Crew, Head of Business Growth & Employer Partnerships – Welcome
Sir Paul Phillips, Principal & CEO – The Weston College story and the changing landscape of funding
09.00 – 09.45 Weston College Presentations
Dave Crew – Upskilling your Workforce, funded and commercial training, T Levels and Industry Placements
Nicola Lace, SEND Operations Manager, Faculty of Inclusive Practice – Supporting Neurodiverse Colleagues
Tracie Leahy, Head of Apprenticeships & Traineeships – Apprenticeship Update
Panel discussion and Q&A with Employer partners and Learners including:
Abatec
Gold Dust Training
Thatchers
Puxton Park
Visit Somerset
11.00 Representatives from key Weston College teams will have information stands on the day, ready to take your questions, including:
Apprenticeship Hub
Adult Education
Careers Advice
Faculty of Inclusive Practice
Work Placement Officers
11.45 Event Close
For people interested in a lesser well known part of the Dambusters story, there is a new film called Attack on Sorpe Dam that will have a UK Premiere at the IMAX cinema screen of the Bristol Aquarium on Saturday May 13th 2023.
The film features George “Johnny” Johnson’s Dambusters story. The film is for all ages.
Doors Open: 6:30pm
Event Starts: 7:30pm
Tickets are £25. Unreserved seating. Please bring along your confirmation email, which will be your ticket for the evening. Access to the auditorium can be found on Anchor Road.
The challenge of transforming businesses to be more sustainable is undoubtedly complex, but we all need to make a meaningful start. Businesses who lead the way on sustainability can expect to see better engagement, better returns – and a better future for everyone. Whatever your challenge, from leadership buy-in, sustainability strategy development, employee mobilisation and brand activation, join Laura Millar as she walks you through the six steps every business can and should being doing to help bring people, planet and profit into focus across your business and brand.
This talk is best for strategy setters and programme managers across business and brand, sustainability and HR.
About Laura
Laura Millar is the Senior Sustainability Strategist at Six. With 10 years of brand and communications strategy under her belt, Laura wanted to use her skills to help businesses transform for the better. So she went back to university and completed a Climate Change Science and Policy Masters degree. Since then, at Six, she works clients to help them navigate & communicate about sustainability. Driving their transitions to the cleaner, greener and more inclusive world of tomorrow.
> See Six’s member profile here
The Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Sian if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
You are invited to join us for the private viewing of Karen George’s new exhibition, Wild Escapes, on exhibit here at The Square Club.
You are welcome to visit the club anytime between 2pm and 6pm, to be the first to view the new exhibit, where you will have the opportunity to meet the artist, purchase any exhibition pieces, and mingle with others members of Bristol’s creative community.
There will be prosecco on arrival, and we will be running our a la carte dinner menu in our award-winning Square Kitchen from 6pm for those who wish to stay on for dinner. All 6pm bookings get a free cocktail! You are welcome to stay on for cocktails in our bar afterwards should you wish.
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