- A Lovely Lot
- Autoclenz
- emda
- Enterprise UK
- iFestival
- Innovation Advice and Guidance
- JH Walter
- Lincoln BIG
- Lincoln Security
- Longhurst Group
- RWE npower renewables
- Shoreham Port
- Small Loans For Business
- Stormsaver
- Sustainable Construction iNet
- Take Part Lincolnshire
- The Orders of St John Care Trust
- Unleashing Enterprise
A Lovely Lot
We're really chuffed to be working with such a great bunch of people, from those that provide the most versatile, delicious and nutritious food staple that is the potato through to the lovely lot at The Orders of St John Care Trust who look after people in their old age and times of need.
From Shoreham Port on the south coast to Branston Ltd in Scotland. Across the East Midlands with emda and across the nation, with Kissinggates.com and Stormsaver. Lava is equally at home dealing with trade press, regional media, national press and online communities.
While we haven't deliberately specialised in any one particular area, because of our knowledge and professional backgrounds, Lava is attracting clients in Food & Drink; Construction and the Environment; Websites and Innovation; and the Public Sector.
Membership of the Lava List is always open. Click and come in!
A Lovely Lot
We're really chuffed to be working with such a great bunch of people, from those that provide the most versatile, delicious and nutritious food staple that is the potato through to the lovely lot at The Orders of St John Care Trust who look after people in their old age and times of need.
From Shoreham Port on the south coast to Branston Ltd in Scotland. Across the East Midlands with emda and across the nation, with Kissinggates.com and Stormsaver. Lava is equally at home dealing with trade press, regional media, national press and online communities.
While we haven't deliberately specialised in any one particular area, because of our knowledge and professional backgrounds, Lava is attracting clients in Food & Drink; Construction and the Environment; Websites and Innovation; and the Public Sector.
Membership of the Lava List is always open. Click and come in!
Autoclenz
Autoclenz is the UK’s market leader in outsourced automotive valeting, cleaning, SMART repairs and vehicle collection and delivery.
It is a successful multi-million pound enterprise at the cutting edge of the automotive industry. The company continues to invest in exciting initiatives and pioneering levels of service that have earned Autoclenz a reputation for excellence and a client base which boasts some of the best-known names in the industry including Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Bentley.
Autoclenz has earned its premier reputation because of the way it works and the services it offers. Its innovations continue to improve the day-to-day operations and long-term profitability of all its clients. It uses class-leading quality control procedures, rigorous auditing systems, service level agreements and a thorough customer care programme to really look after its clients’ interests.
Autoclenz understands that the motor trade is a highly competitive arena made more complicated by its unpredictability – that’s why it not only invests in developing new initiatives it also recognises the need for effective, sustained communications.
Autoclenz’s specialist division, React, is one of the UK’s leading deep cleaning and decontamination specialists. It understands better than anyone about the unique pressures demanded by the toughest clean-up challenges. Its customer sectors span everything from education and the leisure industry through to transport operators, police forces and the prison service. It has long-standing clients including the prison service and police authorities, to tackle decontaminating vehicles and cells to cleaning out-of-the-way scenes of crime.
emda
Lava is just one of five public relations consultancies to feature on the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) roster and probably, the most successful.
Lava supports the agency by providing PR support to the Innovation Team, Small Loans For Business, the Climate Resilience Programme, the iFestival, the Survive & Thrive campaign and the Sustainable Construction iNet.
emda is one of nine Regional Development Agencies in England, set up in 1999, to bring a regional focus to economic development. Its primary goal is to increase the economic growth of the region while reducing disparities between the East Midlands and other English regions.
emda's key role is to be the strategic driver of sustainable economic development. emda works in partnership with public, private and voluntary organisations to deliver the goals of the Regional Economic Strategy, which it produces on behalf of the region — and is why the agency is the catalyst for change in the East Midlands.
emda's vision is that by 2020 the East Midlands will be a flourishing region. A region made up of growing and innovative businesses. A region where skilled people are employed in good quality jobs. A region where we all feel part of healthy, inclusive communities and live in thriving, attractive places.
Enterprise UK
Enterprise UK gives people the skills, confidence and ambition to be enterprising, through four programmes of work promoting enterprise for now and for the future, globally and locally.
It was founded as a campaigning organisation in 2004 by the British Chambers of Commerce, the Confederation of British Industry, the Institute of Directors and the Federation of Small Businesses. Back then, Enterprise UK was known as Enterprise Insight.
Primarily funded by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) and with Peter Jones as its Chair, Enterprise UK is best known for running the Make Your Mark campaign, which encourages enterprising activity among young people and co-founding Global Entrepreneurship Week.
iFestival
The Innovation Festival (iFestival) was first introduced by the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) and East Midlands Innovation in 2007.
The festival, now a six week celebration of innovation, encourages businesses to think and act differently in order to increase their profitability.
In 2009, as part of the third annual iFestival, over 170 events were staged across the East Midlands during March and April.
High profile guest speakers, such as Gerald Ratner, Richard Farleigh, Rachel Elnaugh, Guy Browning and Luke Johnson joined thousands of others in attending events aimed to educate and inspire in equal measure.
Born out of the Regional Innovation Strategy, itself part of the Regional Economic Strategy, the iFestival is delivered by the East Midlands’ four Innovation Networks and over 80 regional partners and stakeholders.
Innovation Advice and Guidance
Innovation Advice and Guidance is part of Solutions for Business, the government’s streamlined portfolio of business support products.
Delivered in Lincolnshire by ANGLE plc, the Innovation Advice and Guidance programme brings the techniques and benefits of innovation to small businesses, identifying openings for innovation based business improvement.
As part of the service, ANGLE’s specialist consultants provide a complete SME innovation support service, from innovation opportunity identification, training, business analysis and support to project implementation. In particular, ANGLE is set to deliver a series of free events, at which processes, opportunities and benefits of small business innovation will be highlighted and explored. Lincolnshire businesses can also access free face-to-face advice and assistance and find out more about the wider resources (such as funding and technical services) available to them to help them innovate.
Innovation is considered by Lincolnshire’s public sector partners to be crucial to the county’s development and prosperity. Developed as part of the Lincolnshire Economic Strategy, the Programme is part of the county’s contribution to the East Midlands Regional Innovation Strategy.
ANGLE, the international venture management company focusing on the commercialisation of technology and innovation, is delivering the Innovation Advice and Guidance programme in Lincolnshire on behalf of Lincolnshire County Council. Funding for the programme is provided by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), which is managed in the region by East Midlands Development Agency and Lincolnshire Councty Council through Single Programme funding.
The contract follows ANGLE’s successful delivery of a previous programme, Innovation Lincolnshire, between May 2007 and October 2009.
www.innovationlincolnshire.co.uk
Lava PR contacts: Matt
JH Walter
A different perspective on property, land and sustainability.
JHWalter is a multidisciplined property and rural business consultancy.
The company's team of chartered surveyors, land agents, estate agents, valuers, auctioneers, expert witnesses and rural business consultants provide property and business advice throughout Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and the East Midlands.
Lava PR contacts: Matt
Lincoln BIG
Lincoln Business Improvement Group (BIG) is dedicated to raising the quality of experience throughout Lincoln city centre for businesses, residents and visitors.
Its basic philosophy is that by improving people’s experience of the city centre, they will stay longer, visit more often and it will make the city centre a better place to do business.
This aim is delivered through a programme of investment around six main activities: access, evening economy management, events and promotions, Lincoln in Bloom, the security group and street management.
Lincoln Security
Established in 1974 Lincoln Security has grown into one of the UK's leading suppliers of locksmith and security products, systems and services.
Operating across the country Lincoln Security develops, installs and maintains security systems for a diverse range of clients including the Environment Agency, United Utilities, Siemens plc, National Grid, Anglian Water and Yorkshire Water.
The company's highly experienced team, which includes surveyors and engineers, regularly act as specification consultants advising on security issues.
Lincoln Security's services broadly fall into electronic and mechanical access control; security doors, window grilles and shutters; installation, maintenance and locksmith services; master key and specialised locking systems; architectural ironmongery; and intruder alarm, fire alarm and CCTV system installation and maintenance.
Longhurst Group
The Longhurst Group is the parent company of seven dynamic housing service companies.
Established in 2001, with just two member companies - Longhurst Homes and Spire Homes (formerly East Northamptonshire Housing) the Longhurst Group has grown rapidly and now has over 15,000 homes and employs some 1,000 people.
As well as the founding companies, the Longhurst Group also comprises Havelok Homes in Grimsby and Friendship Care and Housing in Birmingham. The Group also owns Keystone Developments, which specialises in building homes for the over 55s. Longhurst Group’s charitable organisation, Home from Home, provides interim accommodation for people when their own homes are being adapted or updated.
The Group’s aim is to ensure members achieve efficiencies by working together, sharing resources and skills and delivering the best possible service to all of its tenants, customers and stakeholders.
The Longhurst Group's mission is to provide good quality homes for people in neighbourhoods where they are happy and proud to live and to help improve the lives of its tenants and residents.
Lava PR contact: Matt
RWE npower renewables
RWE npower renewables is one of the UK’s leading renewable energy suppliers, committed to developing and operating wind farms and hydro plant to produce sustainable and environmentally-friendly electricity.
The company operates 17 hydroelectric power projects and 22 wind farms in the UK, including the country’s first major offshore wind farm, North Hoyle. RWE npower renewables is also working with marine energy technology partners to deliver new wave and tidal stream power projects in the UK. Through its existing projects and those in development, RWE npower renewables is working in close partnership with communities and companies throughout the UK.
As government policy drives the UK towards a target of supplying 10% of electricity from renewables by 2010, and 15% by 2015, RWE npower renewabls will be at the forefront of realising this aim.
RWE npower renewables is a fully owned subsidiary of RWE Innogy and sister company to RWE npower, a leading integrated UK energy company with around 6.8 million customer accounts. RWE npower also owns and operates a flexible portfolio of conventional power stations as well as a portfolio of cogeneration plant producing more than 10% of the electricity used in England and Wales.
Shoreham Port
Situated on the south coast, Shoreham Port is one of the UK's busiest ports.
Shoreham Port handles some two million tones of aggregates, sawn timber, steel, oil, locally-grown cereals and scrap metal cargo each year. It also operates as a highly successful commercial and warehousing property portfolio enabling the employment of over 1,400 people by the port’s tenants. As a trust port, all profits are reinvested to ensure the long-term future and sustainability of the operation.
The port is central to the Shoreham Harbour Regeneration project and, in the last five years, has benefited from the investment of more than £30 million to improve the infrastructure, terminals and warehousing.
Lava PR contact: Matt
Small Loans For Business
Small Loans For Business (formerly EnterpriseLoans East Midlands) provides loans to both existing entrepreneurs and people starting up in business.
Established by the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) and managed by First Enterprise Business Agency, Small Loans For Business exists to provide financial support to individuals with a viable business idea who require finance. This includes those in disadvantaged communities and under-represented groups along with start-up businesses and more established firms struggling to raise finance.
Loans of between £5,000 and £20,000 are available to entrepreneurs across the East Midlands who can demonstrate they have a viable business, supported with a well thought out business plan.
Stormsaver
Stormsaver is one of the UK’s leading specialist designers and installers of rainwater harvesting systems.
Founded in 2003, Stormsaver has grown rapidly and it has designed over 300 bespoke systems, across four key sectors: commercial, industrial, education and housing. Its cutting edge systems are specified by over half of the UK’s Top 150 construction companies for end users such as ASDA, Sainsbury's, Royal Mail and B&Q.
Stormsaver attributes its impressive growth to its holistic approach. Not only will the company work with its clients to design a bespoke system, Stormsaver will also commission and maintain an installed solution.
Complying fully with health and safety legislation and building regulations, Stormsaver’s pressurised and non-pressurised systems allow clients to demonstrate their environmental credentials and save money at the same time. ASDA’s Scottish distribution centre, for example, has the potential to save £8,000 per annum thanks to its Stormsaver system.
The rainwater harvested by the Stormsaver system can be used in a variety of ways; from WC and urinal flushing; laundry; irrigation and landscape watering; cooling and sprinkler systems; and vehicle washing.
Rainwater harvesting is still a relatively new concept in UK building but it is not a new idea. Continental architects and builders have been collecting, treating and using rainwater within buildings for many years.
Now, with the potential to save many thousands of pounds, the UK construction industry is waking up to the benefits of rainwater harvesting, such as cheaper utility bills, a lower carbon footprint and the ability to reuse one of the UK's most common resources.
Sustainable Construction iNet
The Sustainable Construction Innovation Network (iNet) is a regional initiative working to increase innovation across the East Midlands’ construction sector
Innovation is a key strategic priority for the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) and East Midlands Innovation as its a significant driver in economic growth.
Take Part Lincolnshire
Take Part Lincolnshire has been established to provide an opportunity for people to get involved in local democracy and make a difference to their local community.
Facilitated by the University of Lincoln and supported by a range of partners, including the Lincolnshire Assembly, Take Part Lincolnshire provides a framework in which people can create new and better opportunities to use their experience and skills to shape their local community.
Take Part Lincolnshire is part of the national Take Part Pathfinder Programme, created to promote 'Active Learning for Active Citizenship'. The programme provides information, encouragement and training for people like you, so you can take a more active role in your community, making your voice heard and your opinions count.
www.takepartlincolnshire.org
Lava PR contacts: Matt
The Orders of St John Care Trust
The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) was established in 1991 as a not for profit charitable trust. It is the second largest not for profit care provider in the UK, currently operating 74 homes in four counties. It is responsible for the care of some 3,300 residents and employs around 3,500 staff.
The Trust delivers a broad range of care services, including residential, nursing and dementia care. It also provides intermediate, respite and day care. The scope of care delivery is kept under constant review so that the changing requirements of both the people for whom it cares and the commissioning partners are appropriately catered for. This is reflected in the Trust’s new homes development programme and the training given to its staff.
The Trust is sponsored by two Orders – the Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of Jerusalem, Rhodes & Malta and the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Between them, these two Orders bring a combined total of over 1,000 years of experience in care, relief and service. Today, they provide the Trustees for The Orders of St John Care Trust.
Unleashing Enterprise
Unleashing Enterprise is leading the way in developing enterprise skills among young people across the East Midlands.
Funded by the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) Unleashing Enterprise aims to further develop a clear and strong connection between all organisations actively involved in delivering, supporting or funding enterprise skills.
Unleashing Enterprise is an active partner in a variety of national campaigns such as Global Entrepreneurship Week, which is held annually in November and features initiatives like Banger to Brawn (above) and the Enterprising Streak Campaign (the East Midlands year-round campaign to support enterprise skills) which are specifically targeted at young people aged 14 to 30.
While emda manages the project on a daily basis, the partnership is represented by the Unleashing Enterprise Steering Group. This Steering Group comprises members from across the region and reflects the diversity and richness of the enterprise agenda.
Unleashing Enterprise believes that enterprise is a skill that can be taught, a skill that can be picked up, improved, honed and applied. Unleashing Enterprise recognises the depth of expertise across the region and seeks to draw together practitioners to help develop these skills to help current and future generations become more enterprising.
