Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, is searching for candidates to join its multinational cabin crew team. The Dubai-based airline is holding a Cabin Crew recruitment open day on 2ndFebruary at AC Hotel by Marriott Manchester City Centre. 15 Mason St, Manchester M4 5FT, United Kingdom.
The airline is looking for individuals who are passionate about delivering simple yet personalised and impeccable hospitality while creating memorable moments for its customers. Safety being one of Emirates’ highest priorities, the ideal candidate will lead confidently and take control when it comes to managing aircraft services, security, and safety procedures. All Emirates crew will receive a world-class learning experience at the airline’s state-of-the-art facility in Dubai.
Applicants hoping to give their careers an epic take-off can walk in with an up-to-date curriculum vitae (CV) in English, and a recent photograph. Candidates are advised to pre-register here for a smoother experience. Those who haven’t applied online may do so as walk-ins on Open Day at AC Hotel by Marriott Manchester City Centre. 15 Mason St, Manchester M4 5FT, United Kingdom. Further information about the requirements for the selection process can be found on emirates.com/careers. Candidates will need to come prepared to spend the full day at the venue. Shortlisted candidates will be informed of timings for further assessments and interviews on the same day.
Emirates’ truly global cabin crew team represent 160 nationalities reflecting its customer mix and international operations in over 130 cities on six continents operating a modern fleet of over 200 all wide-body aircraft. The airline is the largest global operator of the Boeing 777 and the Airbus A380 aircraft.
Emirates offers candidates outstanding career opportunities, with excellent training facilities and a broad range of development programmes for its employees. All Emirates crew are based in the exciting cosmopolitan city of Dubai and enjoy an attractive employment package that includes a variety of benefits such as a tax-free salary, free company-provided accommodation, free transport to and from work, excellent medical cover as well as exclusive discounts on shopping and leisure activities in Dubai. Emirates’ growing global network offers many travel opportunities across the airline’s six continents. Emirates’ cabin crew enjoys attractive concessional travel benefits for themselves as well as their families and friends to all destinations that the airline flies to.
Property developer Ask Real Estate (Ask) has revealed the appointment of lead contractor, BAM Construct UK, to deliver the next phase of office development at First Street in Manchester City Centre.
Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC), a specialist insurer of defined benefit pension funds, has invested £105 million to forward fund the new 130,900 sq ft net zero in operation office.
Plot 9a is being brought forward by lead developer, Ask and its JV partner, The Richardson Family. The building will have a BREEAM minimum rating of Excellent and is also one of the first offices in Manchester capable of achieving a minimum NABERS Design for Performance rating of 5.5* stars or above – the highest level of environmental performance in use.
It was announced in August last year that the Government Property Agency (GPA) has taken a 25-year lease on the entire building which will accommodate around 2,500 staff. It is expected that £31m in economic benefits will be generated by the relocation from London to Manchester of over 700 civil service roles, which forms part of the Government’s Places for Growth initiative.
The Government Hubs Programme enables the GPA to provide a smaller, better and greener estate which supports the Government’s ambition to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The hubs allow the GPA to create modern, inclusive environments where departments can be collocated in shared buildings across the UK. Supporting Government’s Levelling Up agenda and Places for Growth initiative, encouraging the movement and creation of jobs outside London.
Ask has worked successfully with BAM over the past five years on a number of high-profile schemes with a combined contract value in excess of £137 million delivering almost 367,000 sq ft of floor space across Manchester, Salford and the North East, the most recent of which is a new flagship headquarters for one of the UK’s largest providers of social housing, Home Group, in the centre of Newcastle.
John Hughes, Managing Director at Ask Real Estate said: “We are delighted to have appointed BAM to take this project forward. Since announcing our pre-let to the GPA we have had an unbelievable reaction to the building’s sustainability credentials and the jobs this development will bring to First Street. Having worked with BAM for a number of years, they have become a trusted contractor partner for us and this appointment continues our positive relationship.”
Ian Fleming, North West Regional Director at BAM added: “The ‘Holy Grail’ in the construction sector, which enables gold standard collaboration, is the early involvement between all the parties and in particular, developer and contractor. This pre-construction phase is where problems get identified and solved, partnerships are forged, and ideas and solutions realised that add value to a scheme and guide it to success.
“That’s our experience of working with Ask – it means our ability to enhance the sustainability and social value of how we work and what a scheme can achieve is improved. I know that the great challenges of a scheme like this can be met through the innovation and creativity our partnerships will bring.”
Elevating a trip to the movies to a new height, the world’s finest bourbon Woodford Reserve presents a cinematic experience with a taste of fine dining for an unmissable event in Manchester
Woodford Reserve Whiskey has curated the ultimate immersive event for foodies, film fans and those who love a new and exciting experience. The multi-sensory event, A Cinematic Spectacle for the Senses, will host an imaginative and intimate cinema screenings alongside a perfectly paired tasting menu of small plates and cocktails, with each course surprising guests at different moments throughout the film to further bring the film scenes to life.
Featuring flavours inspired by each film to create rich and colourful moments for the senses, each cocktail will be curated by Woodford Reserve’s very own mixologist Joseph Hall and will explore the unique flavour profiles of the Kentucky bourbon. Alongside a tasting menu of sweet and savoury culinary delights, each complimenting cocktail will provide a never tasted before spectacle for the senses.
Coming to Manchester, on Saturday 18th February, A Cinematic Spectacle for the Senses will travel to 36-seat cinema Mini Cini at Ducie Street Warehouse to host three intimate screenings of Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) with Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis. The story of an ageing Chinese immigrant swept up in an insane adventure, at pivotal moments, guests will be surprised with Woodford Reserve themed cocktails and paired culinary delights by TĀTĀ Eatery, known for its innovative Asian fusion cuisine and originally famous for inventing ‘ricewiches’.
Joseph Hall, Woodford Reserve UK Brand Ambassador says: “Woodford Reserve are so proud to present A Cinematic Spectacle for the Senses, an experience that is so much more than a whiskey tasting. We have placed each of the senses at the heart while curating an action-packed and amazing tasting menu where each sip and bite uses the science of flavour and creates truly unique moments.”
Event details:
Mini Cini, Ducie Street Warehouse, Manchester
Film: Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
Food: TĀTĀ Eatery in collaboration with Ducie Street Warehouse
Date: Saturday 18th February 2022, 1:30pm, 5pm, 8:15pm
Tickets are £40pp and include a multi-course tasting menu, three paired cocktail serves and your seat at the screening.
Preston-based Applethwaite Homes turned to Bolton-based Absolute Agency and trusted the brand specialists with an overhaul of its brand positioning.
The home builder develops beautiful homes in rural settings, but its branding did not reflect the quality of the properties and the stunning, unique locations.
Absolute Agency was brought on board to conduct a workshop with an in-depth look into what Applethwaite stood for and the audience they wanted to attract.
The final branding look and feel is now more higher end, with a clear colour palette of luxurious dark blue complemented by a secondary, set of paler colours.Ornamental graphics were developed to represent the development locations and the bespoke font used to add to the quality look and feel of the brand positioning.
Van branding.
The branding includes a full suite of material for each development, brochures, signage, graphics, promotional items and packs for new home owners. The graphics and typography are complemented with Applethwaite’s lifestyle images, which bring to life the various happy moments that home buyers experience when they’re choosing their new home.
This branding has so far been implemented on sites throughout the north west including Inglewood near Preston, Davyfields near Darwen and Brackenwood in Blackburn.
Inglewood Flag.
Chris Hodgen, MD of Absolute Agency, said: “We have extensive experience within the home builder and property sectors and when Applethwaite Homes approached us with such a unique challenge it was a great project to work on. Our team worked seamlessly with theirs to really get to the heart of what Applethwaite is about and hearing the internal and customer reaction to the new branding has been fantastic.”
Colin Hetherington, MD from Applethwaite Homes, said: “We have always been extremely proud in the quality of the homes we build, however we identified that our existing brand identity and marketing materials didn’t match up to this high quality. We wanted to strengthen our position in the marketplace, whilst delivering a unique customer experience from enquiry through to moving in, which truly represented Applethwaite Homes.
“We wanted to work with a local agency who had experience in the housing sector, but who also took the time to understand our team, our ambition and who could support us on this journey as an extension of our marketing team.
“The feedback from customers and internal staff has been really positive and our outside visual identity now matches our internal values.”
Absolute Agency is 23 years old and based in Bolton. Founded by Chris Hodgen, it is a bold agency specialising in branding, digital, content and communications for ambitious clients.
Applethwaite Homes builds family homes in small and exclusive developments that have individual character, their aim is to provide comfortable homes that reflect the quality and style of times past and satisfy the needs of modern living.
Citizens Advice Salford has received a significant increase in volunteer applications because of the launch of a dedicated social media campaign.
The campaign is the first of its kind for the organisation, having commissioned social media agency, Social Republic, to help drive volunteer registrations as demand for its services grows.
The agency has been responsible for creating innovative social campaigns across Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter improving reach with local residents by 646% and engagements by 811%.
Founded in 1939, Citizens Advice provides free, confidential, and impartial advice to the community as well as campaigning on the biggest issues affecting people’s lives.
Gareth Hughes, Senior Manager at Salford Citizens Advice commented:
“We are enjoying our work with the Social Republic team who are improving our social media activity and reaching potential volunteers.
It’s imperative that we maintain a healthy number of volunteers to keep up with increasing demand.
Volunteers help us assist more than 20,000 people each year, without their passion and generosity, we wouldn’t be here today.”
CEO of Social Republic, Rob Illidge, added:
“As a purpose-led agency, we are delighted to be delivering for an organisation that is close to our heart.
The main aim of our work is to increase the number of volunteers that help to provide vital services to the Salford community, and it’s great to see that we have contributed.
Campaigns highlight the multitude of support services offered, and encourage the people of Salford, who are passionate about helping others, to apply.”
Social Republic is dedicated to supporting non-profit organizations; working with the NHS, British Red Cross, Melanoma UK, and Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation.
New ‘cycle stores’ to allow more children to ride their bikes to school and store them safely have been officially opened by Active Travel Commissioner, Dame Sarah Storey.
Arlies Primary School and Silver Springs Primary Academy in Stalybridge are the latest most recent to have cycling storage facilities installed after receiving grants from Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).
Each cycle store provides young cyclists with stands to secure their bikes under a large shelter, ensuring that their bikes are safe and dry while they learn at school. Teachers and school staff can also use the stores.
Dame Sarah, who was appointed as Active Travel Commissioner last year, visited both Arlies Primary and Silver Springs to meet pupils and officially open their cycle stores on Tuesday. Dame Sarah also delivered talks at each primary to inspire and enlighten youngsters about the benefits of walking, wheeling and cycling to school.
Home to school travel is one of the commissioner’s five priorities in her Refreshed Active Travel Mission for the city-region to ensure schools have the tools to support youngsters in participating in active travel. It also forms a key component in the delivery of a fully-integrated transport system, the Bee Network.
Dame Sarah Storey, said: “It was great fun to meet pupils and staff at Arlies and Silver Springs and officially open their new cycle stores.
“Their enthusiasm for walking, wheeling and cycling was infectious, but I heard that it hasn’t always been easy to make active journeys to school. It’s noticeable how these new facilities are already supporting more active journeys and I really hope these excellent facilities continue to be well used and lead to more children, teachers and school staff walking or cycling to school.
“Everyone agreed it is great to get moving in the fresh air before and after the school day and has the added benefit of reducing traffic congestion in the local area.”
Arlies Primary and Silver Springs are two of 10 schools in Tameside and in 62 Greater Manchester to be awarded funding for cycle stores.
A shelter and five ‘Sheffield stands’ were installed at Arlies, while a new shelter was built to cover existing stands at Silver Springs, plus additional stands at a second location.
Silver Springs has been involved in several events along the first Bee Network scheme to open in Tameside.
Pupils have taken part in two story walks, a ‘jog, walk or wheel’ event and a festive ‘Jingle Jog’, enjoying the fresh air and exercise along the scenic walking and cycling route. These were facilitated and supported by Tameside Council, TfGM and Ridgehill Big Local Enterprises, a not-for-profit social enterprise that leases and manages Chadwick Dam to benefit the community. Pupils can use the new network to make sustainable journeys to and from school or to access the natural scenery.
Deborah Mason, Principal of Silver Springs, said: “We were thrilled to welcome Dame Sarah Storey to Silver Springs. We are committed to enriching our children’s education with wider opportunities in sport and promoting healthy lifestyles.
“The children really enjoyed the opportunity to hear about her role as Active Travel Commissioner and were inspired by her responses to their questions about her sporting career and future plans.”
Tameside Council Executive Leader Councillor Gerald Cooney, added: “These fantastic new cycle stores will be of great benefit to pupils and staff who are able to take the healthy and sustainable option of cycling to school.
“It’s been brilliant to see the children enjoying the events we’ve helped organise at Chadwick Dam, which have highlighted the walking and cycling route and the scenic area. And there’s much more to come across Tameside with more Bee Network routes and cycling and walking improvements in the pipeline.”
Festival and events marketing agency Mustard Media have today announced that they have achieved their biggest year for ticket sales on record.
In the 2022 financial year, Mustard Media worked with over 100 festivals, events, venues and exhibitions across three continents and 13 countries.
1.5 million ticket sales driven for clients, an uplift of 150% from last year’s 600,000 tickets
£80 million in ticket revenue driven for clients, a 130% increase from last year’s £35 million
Mustard Media, the events marketing agency, have today released their yearly ticket tracking figures, showing their most robust year for ticket sales on record.
In 2021 they set a goal to help their clients sell 1.2 million tickets in 2022, which they surpassed with the total standing at 1.5 million tickets and £80 million in revenue driven.
Robert Masterson, Managing Director, said, “We are incredibly proud of last year’s results. We weathered the toughest years in our history during the pandemic and have worked incredibly hard to get where we are today. Having worked with over 100+ festivals and events last year, we’re excited about our plans to grow the agency this year on solid foundations. While we recognise that it may be another challenging year for the events industry, we’re already helping our clients get some of the strongest sales they’ve seen. We’re confident that our ability to adapt and strategise will ensure that we’re able to help our clients prosper.”
2022 has seen other successes for the business, including winning a host of awards for a campaign they delivered for their client Christmas at Bute Park, which saw them sell 40,000 tickets in 48 hours, driving £ 1.8 million in revenue. The campaign won Best use of Paid Social at the Campaign Tech Awards, won three Global Eventex awards, and got on the shortlist at three other ceremonies.
2022 saw the team expand with eight new hires, including two Senior Hires and five Paid media experts, to help grow the paid media team.
Strategy Director Sian Bennett was made a business partner after joining the agency in 2013 as an intern, and her Strategy Department has been pivotal to the agency’s growth.
Mustard Media are passionate about supporting the events industry; their initiative, Business Keeps on Dancing, is an online community and event brand which brings together industry experts and thought leaders to share their secrets to success. 2022 brought the launch of its podcast with 14 episodes gaining industry acclaim, including a feature in Music Week, Sep 2022. In October, a live event in Amsterdam saw speakers from worldwide festivals and venues brands gather to share their thoughts and insights. Guests have included Rob Da Bank (Bestival), Jon Drape (WHP, Parklife, Festival No.6, Engine No.4), Gok Wan (DJ & TV host), Ben Robinson (Kendal Calling, Bluedot) and Yousef (Circus Recordings).
In 2023, the agency plans to continue growing both in the U.K. and internationally, driving more ticket sales across an increasing spectrum of events, including Music, Festivals, Outdoors, Exhibitions and Sports. A brand new insight and data product will launch later this year.
Vega has been officially launched by a team of seven highly experienced strategy, digital and media co-founders – Alexia Harper, Nick James, Liz Lavelle, Jon Hall, Ian Lees, Mark Jorgensen and Dave Lucas.
The team have held senior roles at leading agency names including BBH, Carat, Dentsu, iProspect, McCann, MediaCom and more as well as previously building the most successful independent agency in the UK, MediaVest Manchester, before its acquisition by Dentsu in 2011.
Commenting on the launch, the Vega co-founders said, “Our founders have worked together for years in both building agencies and growing brands, and we have a shared ethos that being adaptive and transparent is key to building successful commercial relationships.
We have pooled our collective experience to devise our co-production model which offers a distinctive proposition to clients and media owners alike who are looking for purposeful marcomms solutions, and to work differently in an evolving digital and media landscape.”
The agency is based in Fourways House in Manchester’s Northern Quarter and offers strategy, research, media planning and activation, digital and content through their co-production model; built on the principle that the best outcomes are delivered by highly experienced teams of channel experts working collaboratively to achieve a shared purpose.
Following its soft launch in Q3 of 2022, Vega has already grown to 15 employees and won several accounts including Beagle Street, Rank Group and Woodlands Group.
Manchester’s Tyler Grange launches duo of environmentally conscious beer – taking the total tally to eight
As well as creating and honing innovation across their business for the four-day working week pilot, the Deansgate-based business has just launched two seasonal low-carbon and environmentally conscious beers – Bramble and Solstice.
The environmental planning firm has been busy brewing ale since 2017, and, in keeping with its very real and visible values, it’s committed to doing so with the smallest possible carbon impact.
For such a socially minded business, it was yet another step towards Tyler Grange’s very recent B Corp certification – along with the introduction of the three-day weekend – and the many benefits this brings.
Brewed for purpose and not for profit – the beer is mainly gifted to Tyler Grange clients and partners – this duo of beautifully modern ales has been curated in collaboration with award-winning Burning Soul Breweryusing new and exciting ingredients.
Beer being brewed at Burning Soul.
They take the Tyler Grange beer tally brewed with Burning Soul to three – with Phoenix being the first to be produced in partnership with the brewery. It uses the hop of the same name, which has recently enjoyed a resurgence in popularity and which, crucially, is locally sourced.
Tyler Grange is always steadfast to seek out collaborative opportunities that have a positive impact – both socially and economically – for smaller, local businesses such as Burning Soul. The craft brewery and tap room opened for business back in 2016 and was named Best New Brewery in the Midlands just six months later.
It’s a passion and pastime that are integral to the ethos of this leading firm of environmental consultants who’ve been nurturing nature, fostering talent and brewing beer, for fun, over the past decade. As are the beers’ names.
Bramble (5.5% abv) was chosen as the name of this late summer, farmhouse style pale ale due to the seasonality of blackberries growing in hedgerows. These, in turn, are very important from an ecology perspective – in terms of biodiversity, arboriculture and as a landscape feature to the natural world.
Tyler Grange new environmentally friendly beer flavours.
Tyler Grange’s dark Solstice beer (7.3% abv) is a coffee breakfast stout – with notes of espresso and dark chocolate and is named after the winter celebration of the sun in December. The year’s shortest day and longest night marks the symbolic death and rebirth of the sun. It’s when the gradual waning of daylight hours is reversed and the winter-spring seasonal transition – and its effect on ecology – begins.
Solstice has also been curated in collaboration with Tyler Grange Manchester’s favourite coffee bar and roasters Mancoco. 75 freshly brewed doubles of its signature Espresso Blend – made using fairly traded single origin beans from Sumatra, Brazil and Ethiopia – were immediately transported, by train, to Birmingham’s Burning Soul to be added straight into the beer.
All three beers are made from whole cone hops grown locally to the company’s Birmingham office – one of six located across the UK – along with British grown malt and British yeast, for reduced environmental impact of transport and food miles. These key ingredients are then lovingly combined during a brewing process that only uses renewable energy sources.
Tyler Grange is making strong progress in its carbon ambition, which includes its brews. In fact, it hopes to go beyond carbon neutral to become carbon negative – removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere rather than simply offsetting emissions – with the broader mission of inspiring more businesses to become more sustainable.
And they’re doing everything they can to determine the best way to achieve this, as soon as possible.
Tyler Grange’s Jon Berry said: “We started brewing back in 2017, from our Cotswolds office, and we’ve since gone on to produce eight beers, and thousands of cans each month. It’s a typically Tyler Grange thing to do, as we spotted an opportunity and ran with, to see what could happen, and it’s ended up pretty big. Next year we plan to brew four – one for each season and reflective of how seasonal environments shape ecological processes.
“We started off, many years ago, as a hobby for some of us has become an incredible success and, crucially, it brings many benefits to our business – including employee engagement, happiness and satisfaction.
“As well as being lots of fun, it’s yet another example of how diverse and innovative we are as a business. We’re not just about one thing. We have lots of interests to celebrate. It makes us better at our jobs and provides us with a terrific talking point.”
Burning Soul’s Chris Small said: “Tyler Grange came to us with the idea of creating a low carbon beer to gift to its clients and partners free of charge. It’s not often that we brew beer for no profit, which has made the collaboration even more interesting.
“Working with Tyler Grange has been a really enjoyable experience. The team is really passionate about brewing beer that aligns to their ethos and brand values, which has been educational and fun.”
“The very nature of beer brewing makes it difficult to stay completely environmentally friendly, and the challenge set by Tyler Grange to do as much as we can to offset any harmful impacts provided us with some creative license to experiment with new, carbon saving methods, whilst making excellent beer at the same time.”
To find out how Tyler Grange Beer is brewed, watch this.
Tyler Grange has offices located in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Exeter and Cirencester, in the Cotswolds. For further information visit https://tylergrange.co.uk.
Oldham Council is inviting local businesses in Royton to sign up to a free business networking event.
The event, hosted by the Council, will give businesses the chance to engage with others in the district, gather local information about support available to them, identify supply chain opportunities and network.
Attendees will get to hear updates about key initiatives from the council, the Here for Business support programme and more.
The event will take place on Wednesday 1 February, 5-7pm at Mazzo in Royton (43 Radcliffe St, Royton, Oldham OL2 6QL).
These will be the second of several networking opportunities, not only in Royton and but across the other local districts too – just keep an eye on the Council’s social pages and in our Business Newsletter for dates.
Councillor Shoab Akhtar, Cabinet Member for Employment and Enterprise, said:
“The event will give entrepreneurs a great opportunity to get invaluable information about the local business landscape and sectors.
“We know these are difficult times for many businesses and the council, along with our partners, want to offer all the support we can.
“The event will be packed with advice on what support is available and our dedicated council offers will be on hand to explain what we’re doing to boost the economy throughout Oldham.
“I’d urge people to join us, meet their business neighbours and make valuable local connections.”
The networking events are free, and open to all businesses from the districts they are hosted in. Participants should register to reserve their place on Eventbrite here.
Oldham Council has a free and flexible support offer to help make a real difference to your business.
Much of this package is unique to the borough and includes grant funding, access to finance, growth advice, workforce development and networking opportunities.
Free networking event in Royton for local businesses