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CREATIVITY SHINES Get involved in Bath’s biggest celebration of its dynamic creative, tech and cultural organisations, the Creative Bath Awards. “As a growing sector, Bath’s creative world is highly attractive to companies seeking new business,” says Vicki Cheadle, Creative Bath’s community leader. “Sponsors benefit from long-term marketing association, peaking in June.” Already on board are Headline sponsor Bath Spa University, Platinum sponsor Future Publishing, and category sponsors Anthem Publishing, Bath Digital Festival, Edit, Enlightened, The Guild, Half Moon Bay, Kaleidoscope
Collection, MediaClash, Minuteman Press, OJO Solutions, Richardson Swift, Royds Withy King, and Rocketmakers. “As well as choosing one of our categories, businesses can sponsor our shoulder events, which include the Finalists’ & Sponsors’ reception, the drinks reception on Awards evening and our Winners’ Dinner,” says Vicki. Nominations open in February. The Awards are free to enter, and you can enter multiple categories; Awards night is 11 June in Queen Square. For more, email Vicki Cheadle at Vicki.Cheadle@mediaclash.co.uk; creativebathawards.org; @Creativebath
BOULES ARE BACK IN TOWN The legendary Bath Boules tournament, sponsored by Brewin Dolphin, returns to Queen Square in just over five months’ time for its big 30th anniversary – and there are plenty of ways to get involved. Running from Friday-Sunday, 12-14 June, the Boules takes over Queen Square in a huge public party open to all, which over the years has raised more than £800,000 for Bath charities. As well as the Boules tournaments in the daytime, which involves over 190 teams across the weekend, the festival features the legendary Friday Night Party with food, drink and music, sponsored by Savills. Team places are highly sought after,
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and the only way to guarantee a place as part of this special anniversary year is to take a sponsorship position. These are available now, ahead of the remainder of team tickets going on sale on 17 March. Queen Square is uniquely closed to traffic on two sides for the Boules, making space for an enhanced street-food market sponsored by the award-winning foodie magazine, Crumbs, for which pitches are currently being allocated. “All proceeds from the event – including the bar and raffle – go to good causes,” says event director Steph Dodd. “If you can donate a prize, we would love to hear from you. The more money we raise, the more good we can do; it’s win-win!” The Boules is headline sponsored by Brewin Dolphin, and Big Boules sponsors this year include Archers Marquees, B&NES, Bath Ales, Bath Life, Crumbs, Great Western Wine, OJO Solutions, Novia, Ruffer, Savills and Simple Recruitment. To learn more, contact Nell at nell.robins@ mediaclash.co.uk For more: www.bathboules.com
MEA MEA is a firm of construction consultants, project managers, quantity surveyors and building surveyors, established in 1967. They’ve just set up shop in the city and love a blue brolly. So, guys, tell us all about you… MEA works throughout the UK for a wide variety of clients in the private and public sectors; our experience covers new builds, refurbishment, alterations and conservation projects. Why did you choose Bath to set up the new branch? Our South West office was in Chippenham, where we’d been since 1994. However, in the last few years we’ve seen a significant increase in the number of clients, fellow consultants and projects in the Bath area. In order to provide a better service to existing clients and develop new ones, we decided it would be better to move into the city. We’re currently working on several projects in the immediate area, including TCN’s Newark Works project, which is part of the Bath Quays South Regeneration. We continue to work with St John’s Foundation on several building projects, while others include conservation projects and schemes for high net worth private clients. Finally, what have been some of the most challenging and most rewarding moments? The biggest challenge in moving to Bath was finding the right office accommodation. We work in an open-plan style to encourage collaborative and enjoyable working, but Bath’s typical office space is located in Georgian town houses with multiple individual rooms which, whilst full of character, don’t meet our way of working. On the other hand, one of the most rewarding aspects is the ability to now walk to projects and meetings. Not only does it mean that we can be on-site or with a client/fellow consultant very quickly and easily without exacerbating harm to the planet, it also contributes to the well-being of our staff, who get the opportunity for a bit of fresh air and exercise in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. We also enjoy the many professional networking opportunities that Bath has to offer. We are regulars at the Bath branch of Constructing Excellence South West and the Interact networking group; we also enjoy the lighter side of networking at Circo’s Bath Property Social evenings. For more: www.meaconsult.co.uk