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Movie makers – Canvas HQ directors Nathan Clark (left) and
Richard Rowell launched their new venture earlier this year.
VIDEO VALUE
How a media start-up is building customer relationships
A
new company is offering a fresh take
on video and media production.
Canvas HQ, founded by Nathan
Clark and Richard Rowell, is becoming
popular with local businesses for its valuebased
service.
Creative director Nathan told Wear
Business: “We constantly push the quality of
our output to meet an evolving market. On
every new job we ask ourselves, ‘How can we
make this better than the last?’, knowing that
greater quality means happy customers and
an improved portfolio.”
Before founding Canvas, the pair worked
in digital video marketing and live event
production, and both completed media
degrees at the University of Sunderland.
They worked on many projects together
as freelancers, and realised their own firm
would be an ideal platform for their shared
values.
Nathan, from Durham, added: “Our basic
aim is to build strong customer relationships
by delivering a high quality, quick, personal
service at a fair price. It’s pretty simple, and
the feedback has been positive.”
The pair are enjoying getting back out
working in the aftermath of Covid-19 and
have since produced content for Laneberg
Wine’s brand awareness campaign and Great
Annual Savings’ expansion announcement.
Richard, technical director from
Sunderland, told us: “Our successful launch
in February was momentary as the country
soon entered lockdown. It’s been an anxious
time but at least our paperwork is all up to
date!
“We’re now focussed on moving safely
forwards with our customers and peers.”
View their portfolio online at canvashq.
co.uk
£5.5m works complete at key County Durham
employment site
Multi-million pound infrastructure
works at a site, which is primed
for a key role in County Durham’s
economic recovery from the coronavirus
pandemic, are now complete.
The improvements, at junction 61 of
the A1(M), at Bowburn, will significantly
improve access to the Integra 61
development, which is set to become a
premier industrial and logistics location, as
well as addressing longstanding congestion
and safety issues.
The 205-acre site, owned and being
developed by Citrus Group, will provide
three million sq ft of high quality industrial
and logistics space as well as 270 residential
properties, a hotel, nursery and roadside
retail units.
The £5.5m junction improvement scheme
has been carried out by Durham County
Council and jointly funded by the authority,
the North East Local Enterprise Partnership
(LEP) and Highways England.
The investment has already helped attract
online retailer Amazon, which this summer
announced plans to open its second North-
East fulfilment centre at the site, bringing
more than 1,000 permanent new jobs to the
area.
FIND A WAY TO
MAKE A WILL
The current pandemic will no doubt
have given the public pause for
thought on many things, but as a
solicitor who specialises in the subject, I’m
hoping the minds of many will have turned
towards the need to finally make a will.
The unheralded arrival of Covid-19 this
year, along with its deadly consequences,
has brought home to millions the fragility
of human life and yet, alarmingly, around
60 per cent of people in the UK have still
not made a will.
Every adult who owns property or has
savings or a child or children under 18
should have an up-to-date will.
If you do not, those you wish to inherit
your assets may well not receive them as,
in the absence of a will, the government
decides who inherits, and these people may
not be those you wish to inherit anything.
Not having a will can cause untold stress
and anxiety for your loved ones as well as a
potentially costly and lengthy legal dispute.
Is there anyone especially who should
make a will? Anyone who isn’t married to
their partner or has children to a previous
marriage or relationship.
If you are not married, your partner will
not benefit from your estate and if you have
re-married, your children from a previous
marriage or relationship may not benefit at
all on your death.
A will also allows you to appoint a
guardian for any children under 18 at your
death, so your wishes are clear who will
look after them.
Always seek out an experienced solicitor
specialising in this area of law to make
your will and a Lasting Power of Attorney
as well.
David Smith
Partner and head of private client
department, Sweeney Miller Law
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