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Congratulations to Eva Lightfoot on her promotion to Account Manager 🍾 Since joining us last year from the BBC, Eva has developed into a consummate PR professional. She’s always delivering superb coverage and recently wowed our new client AimHi Earth with a prominent feature in The Times Business section. Her attention to detail, broad media knowledge and personability make her a natural account manager. She’s got the “can-do” attitude in spades and she’s an upbeat presence around the office. A promotion well deserved 🥳

💚 We always aim high at Harpswood - so it’s no wonder we’ve got off to such a good start with AimHi Earth 🌍 The leading climate and sustainability training provider works with multinational companies such as PepsiCo, Unilever and Molson Coors Beverage Company. It provides curated training sessions and improves employees’ skills to tackle the climate and nature crises head on 💥 We announced AimHi Earth’s £1 million funding investment, landing coverage in The Times for co-founder Sarah Humphrys to talk about the importance of learning at work 🗞️ The news was also reported by UKTN, PA Life Magazine, Maddyness and more. In total, the team secured 34 pieces of coverage across a wide variety of tech, environment and business trades in the UK and abroad

🌷Harpswood springs into action with top-tier coverage secured for clients 🤳The Telegraph wrote on Consultant Connect’s partnership with the Burma Skincare Initiative to revolutionise dermatology care for patients with severe skin conditions in remote communities in Myanmar 🇩🇪 Octopus Energy has won over a new fan for its German wind power tariffs - and it's one of the country's most important news magazines, Der Spiegel 🤠Naked Energy Ltd Energy announced that it’s setting up shop in a new manufacturing and distribution centre in Dallas, Texas, which was covered by Dallas Business Journal and The Dallas Morning News 🚗Packfleet’s CEO Tristan Thomas was invited as a panellist at the the Evening Standard’s SME XPO to speak on how AI is transforming business and sustainability and featured in Lucy Tobin’s write up on the event ☕Asif Ghafoor, CEO of Be.EV features in The EV Café podcast, sharing his journey of pioneering a customer-centric revolution in the EV charging infrastructure space

AIMING HIGH - EPISODE TWO IS HERE 🎙 🎙 🎙 “Stop thinking about doing it and just do it. Get together a merry band of volunteers.... and then let it grow by itself" I LOVED chatting with Bamford Collection/Daylesford Organic's Will Dennis about their Sustainability Champions Network. We talked about the pressures and risks of being a one-man-band leading on sustainability... ...as well as how to unleash employees from throughout your business to champion and shape the strategy with you! Thanks for the concrete tips, tricks and advice, Will - and for sharing some of the unexpected outcomes of creating a network like this for your business! Hoping this will prove a useful case study for sustainability professionals in small teams looking to build capacity and gain momentum. Link to the episode in comments 👇

There’s nothing better than seeing our hard work pay off… Sustainable Ventures featured in the Financial Times last week in a fantastic piece on the booming UK climate tech scene. Thanks to Pilita Clark for speaking with SV CEO Andrew Wordsworth about its work supporting early stage climate tech startups and its key role in the heart of the UK’s climate tech explosion…  It’s going to be an exciting year for Sustainable Ventures with national expansion on the horizon. Be.EV’s CEO Asif Ghafoor featured in The Times alongside New AutoMotive. Asif talked about the issues they face installing EV charging points. New AutoMotive and its CEO Ben Nelmes went on to appear in three other Times articles last week, proving it is an integral part of the UK's conversation around the transition to electric vehicles 💪

Earth Set will take place this month at Sustainable Ventures in County Hall just across the river from the Houses of Parliament. Renovated with cutting-edge materials sourced from Sustainable Ventures’ hub of more than 500 climate tech startups, it’s the perfect backdrop for a discussion on sustainable retrofitting...    Earth Set is a community dedicated to building a sustainable future through skill sharing, monthly meet ups and networking founded by CEO of Octopus Electric Vehicles Fiona Howarth and Jonny Page 🌱 Director, Decarbonise 2030 👏   Moderated by Lucie Heath, Environment Correspondent at The i Paper - the event will bring together Stuart Ferguson, Investment Partner, Sustainable Ventures, Simon West, COO, arbnco, Becky Lane, Co-founder and CEO, Furbnow and Puja Balachander, CEO, Upgreen for an expert panel discussion on how to decarbonise the built environment sector 🏠   When: Tues 9th April, 6.30pm - 9.30pm Address: 5th Floor, Sustainable Ventures, County Hall, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 7PB   Register for the event here: https://bit.ly/3xnDHh9

Harpswood HQ supported Packfleet with its Series A funding announcement this week 💰 The team landed an opportunity for Packfleet’s CEO and Co-founder Tristan Thomas to announce the $10 million funding round backed by General Catalyst and Voyager Ventures on Business Live with Ian King on Sky News 📺 The news was also covered by Reuters, Sifted and other business, investment, and retail titles 📰

Harpswood celebrates another month of securing top-tier coverage 🎉 In the Evening Standard, Sustainable Ventures and Lambeth Council leads the way for more London councils to invest in green start-ups 💚 Octopus Energy continues to power the clean energy transition in Germany with a partnership with one of the country's biggest steel producers, Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH. The story was covered by German newswire IPPEN.MEDIA and was picked up by 32 other publications 🇩🇪 Ben Nelmes, CEO of New AutoMotive, spoke with Bloomberg News about the boom in new EV sales 🚗

The Harpswood team was quick to react to the well-trailed announcement from Labour that it was dropping its green investment pledge. Our clients had strong feelings about the decision – and we secured opportunities for them to share their views with the media. They provided expert commentary on the impact it would have on their businesses and the environment on national TV news shows and in environmental trade publications. ITV News filmed with Christophe Williams, CEO of Naked Energy Ltd at its Essex manufacturing plant 🎥 Sustainable Ventures’ Investment Partner, Stuart Ferguson, gave his first live TV interview appearing on Sky News’ Ian King Live  📺 edie and BusinessGreen also included quotes from our clients on their reaction to the news 🌿 #PR #Harpswood #netzero

And just like that…we’re into February - here are some of January’s best bits ✨ 🇺🇲 Over at Houston, Harpswood US secured a feature for Octopus Energy US’s CEO, Michael Lee, on local broadcast station KCBD-TV talking about the expansion to Lubbock and a quote on Fox4 KDFW on the cold snap 🇩🇪 Harpswood Germany supported Octopus Energy at Germany’s biggest energy event, the Handelsblatt Summit, including a meeting with the Vice Chancellor, Robert Habeck and landing great coverage on Bloomberg News 🤝Ed Pritchard at Anderson Quigley featured in The Times sharing his perspective for those considering a career in the recruitment industry ☀️A flurry of coverage came through following the announcement that Naked Energy Ltd partners with iconic London hotel, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group - Hyde Park to decarbonise the heating for spas, restaurants and guest suites 🚗 Packfleet was named as one of the top 10 startups in this year’s Startups.co.uk 100 list representing a groundbreaking venture that is on track to achieve extraordinary success