Marketing firm receives grant to help boost business

Visual marketing agency Briight has received a five-figure grant to help grow the business.

The firm has received a grant of almost £30,000 from Innovate UK, whose government-backed fund aims to help companies “develop and realise the potential of new ideas, including those from the UK’s world-class research base”.

Briight directors Rob Dawes and Drew Taylour-Davis said they will use the money to make a creative impact on the area.

Rob, who has been running an agency with Drew for more than eight years, said: “The demand on digital and creative industries is huge right now.

“We want our studio in Jubilee Business Park to be a creative hub.

“We want to be able to develop our studio space to increase our capacity and scale of projects and be a fully functional space that will be hired out to other businesses and creatives in need of a large flexible filming space.”

Rob and Drew have worked with some popular local businesses, as well as campaigns for household names, including the BBC, Microsoft, and, most recently, HECK; the North Yorkshire-based supplier of sausages to most major supermarkets.

They want to share their expertise with the next generation of creatives and creative entrepreneurs by giving local people work experience that could eventually lead to permanent roles within the company.

Drew said: “Our ambition at Briight is to host a creative space that can help nurture talent and produce great work.

“We want to push people locally to be more ambitious, understand the power of great visual marketing, and apply it at all levels.

“Most companies gave up their office space after Covid but for creative businesses like ours, it’s still essential for growth and development.

“Creatives need that space and those colleagues who they can bounce ideas off.

“We’ll use the grant to help us make our workspace even more of a fun and inspiring place to be and somewhere that we can organically grow our team.”