A business festival to help you see the wood for the trees
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VARN LAUNCHES INSPIRATIONAL WOODLAND OFFICE
This year, digital marketing and search engine optimisation( SEO) agency Varn created a one-of-a-kind outdoor woodland office, designed to enhance team wellbeing and productivity, as well as providing an inspirational meeting and training venue for clients.
Tom Vaughton, Founder and Managing Director of Varn made a commitment to promoting team wellbeing and offsetting the carbon footprint of the business. This gave rise to the Varn woodland in Bradford on Avon, consisting of over 35,000 trees such as ash, oak, beech and cherry. All managed by Varn, the trees positively offset staff commutes as well as the company’ s carbon footprint.
Tom, said,“ The woodland office helps us to do good for the environment with tree planting but also allows the team to work together outside, in a creative and inspirational space that supports our employee’ s wellbeing.
“ The team can go for woodland walks, have meetings under the trees and even burn off some energy in the woodland go-kart.”
In addition to the woodland office, Tom is exploring other ways in which Varn can disrupt and challenge the conventional office setup, in order to create positive work environments and experiences for his team.
He added,“ We have also created a mobile office that we call the CamperVarn. This is a camper van‘ mobile office’ that the team can
take out and about, taking in new views and thinking differently as a result of being‘ out of office’. This helps our workspaces to become more versatile and dynamic for our team and like the woodland office, encourages working outside and in natural spaces. We also have ' office ' paddleboards and kayaks which team members can use with their friends and families."
In the summer, Varn hosted its first business festival in the woodland – VarnFest. A unique event where business directors and leaders shared their most valuable work and life lessons, their biggest mistakes and honest stories, to help other business owners and directors on their own journeys. The event was so successful that it has inspired more events. Varn is now hosting bespoke SEO, search marketing and Google Analytics 4 training for clients in the woodland setting, creating an inspiring learning environment for marketing teams.
To find out more about SEO training workshops contact Vicky at Varn by emailing: v. walker @ varn. co. uk To find out more about Varn visit: www. varn. co. uk
A business festival to help you see the wood for the trees
VarnFest will be returning on Thursday 29th June 2023. To find out more visit: www. varn. co. uk / varnfest /
OUR HIGHLIGHTS 2022
• 18,000 LinkedIn connections made
• 2,200 candidates registered
• Over 1000 people placed in permanent jobs
• 107 children gifted the chance to play at future of football
• 1 new starter, Beth Thomas, Candidate Manager
• Brecon Beacons challenged smashed!
• 10,400 brews drank( only 5 made by Joe Lacey)
• 960 McDonalds breakfasts
• 3 new dogs
• 2 weddings
• 1 divorce finalised
• 1 dental implant
• 1 birth
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Established in 2004, CMD Recruitment is the leading independent recruitment consultancy in the South West with offices in Bath, Calne, Devizes and Melksham. Find out more at www. cmdrecruitment. com or give us a call on: 01225 805080
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