We showcase leading brands defined by purpose and values.
We support business owners to act on what they stand for.
How it translates into your work, your team and what difference it makes.
Everyone talks about ‘purpose’ or ‘good’ business. What does it look like in practice?
Our events:
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Tech & Creative - June 2023
Featuring JonesMillbank, Dot Project, Tech4Good Southwest, Free Ice Cream, Rocketmakers & Voltric.
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Creative & Digital - April 2023
Featuring Latent Pictures, Loopin, Mayden, PYTCH and Yoke.
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Creative Industries - Autumn 2022
Featuring Agency UK, Rubber Republic, Rising Artists, The Studio Bath & WECA
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Food & Drink Scene - Summer 2022
Featuring Bianchi Group Ltd, Lost and Grounded, Bristol Beer Factory, Hobbs House, New Bristol Brewery and Flourish
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Spring 2022 Event
Featuring: Extract Coffee Roasters // Sawdays // SR2 Recruitment // Arima & Co
Case Studies
(Each recommended by local businesses and interviewed)
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Extract Coffee
A comprehensive mission ‘to make coffee better’
Extract coffee roasters have operated for more than 15 years, employ 50 people and are one of the best known specialist coffee roasters in Bristol, supplying UK wide.
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Sawdays
Employee & community ownership in practice.
Sawdays are an award-winning, Bristol-based travel company that has operated for 25years. They have 2 brands ( Sawday’s & Canopy and Stars ) that represent 4500 places to stay across the world.
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Arima & Co
Inclusive, authentic, commercial marketing
Arima & Co are inclusive marketing specialists, supporting clients to go beyond diversity and build an inclusive approach to widen reach, engagement and ROI. They draw on expertise in data science and communications to achieve this.
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SR2
Holding to values through rapid growth
SR2 are a rapidly growing recruitment company, specialists in IT and engineering consultancy focused on Development, DevOps and QA. Now at over 50 staff, they work with start-ups looking to scale.
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Hobbs House Bakery
Family values in a regional food business.
Hobbs are a family business spanning 5 generations and over 100 years of baking. The family produced the fastest field to loaf and the first organic loaf. They now have 5 retail outlets in the West and a large wholesale operation SW wide.
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Rubber Republic
Clear values & high value digital communications
Rubber Republic are an award winning change making film studio. Their content has reached 250m people working with brands like Disney, eBay and Yorkshire Tea. Their work supports interactive and viral films and campaigns.
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Mayden
Enabling and retaining talent through self managing teams.
Mayden are a software developer and a leading provider of healthcare systems in the UK and abroad. Employing 70 people, the Bath based company draws on expertise in health, tech and agile to support clinicians and services.
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Flourish Foodhall & Kitchen
A smart approach to investing in community and staff
Flourish are a destination farm shop and kitchen between Bath and Bristol. Started mid 2021, and now employing over 60 staff. Flourish believes everyone involved in food production and consumption should benefit – farmers, customers, and environment.
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Rising Arts Agency
A rapidly growing agency led by young people.
Rising Arts are a creative agency that puts young people at the centre of decision-making and delivery.
They partner with clients on consultancy, campaigns, research, consultancy and industry consultation.
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Agency UK
Using purpose to enable staff, develop company culture and enhance client relationships.
Guest speakers to date
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Duncan Kendall, MD, Extract Coffee Roasters.
From supporting gender equality in their supply chain and renewable energy to refurbished roasters and producing biofuel, Extract make coffee better for the environment.
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Joyann Boyce, Founder, Arima & Co
A growing startup showing national clients how an inclusive approach to marketing can reach new levels of engagement and ROI. Using AI to bring new solutions to this space.
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Chris Sheard, MD & Founder, SR2 Socially Responsible Recruitment.
SR2 are tackling recruitment's reputation head on. Accredited as a BCorp with an 'outstanding' rating, creating a charity to offer tech skills to communities and sharing profits with local charities.
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Toby Sawday, NED, Sawdays
Sawdays is a travel and leisure company that represents over 4500 places to stay. It has made big decisions to deliver on its commitment to people and planet. The company is majority owned by employees and a trust that distributes profits to environmental projects.
PURPOSE IN PRACTICE
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AUTUMN 2023
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PURPOSE IN PRACTICE 〰️ AUTUMN 2023 〰️
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With thanks to the following organisations that contributed to the most recent event:
Tech for Good SW || Diversily || Techspark || West of England Combined Authority || Outside.Business || Rocketmakers || New Citizenship Project || Pelumbra || Emergent Business || Consequential || The House