• Snaffling Pig Co. wins prestigious Virgin award
• Cerub PR celebrates 14 years of success
• A-Level students gain a taste of life at Bucks New University during two-month project
• Buckinghamshire New University offers Business Management Top Up degree

Snaffling Pig Co. wins prestigious Virgin award

The Snaffling Pig Co. has won the prestigious Virgin Start-up Foodpreneur 2017 award for most exciting new food and drink start-up in the UK.

The Snaffling Pig team pitched to a panel of judges, Levi Roots, founder of Reggae Reggae Sauce, author and entrepreneur Alice Liveing, Paul Lindley of Ella’s Kitchen, and Jim Cregan, founder of Jimmy’s Iced Coffee, and were crowned the winners over three fellow finalists, who were whittled down from hundreds of initial applicants.

Founders Nick Coleman and Andy Allen have been taking their pork scratching business from strength to strength since inception and their prize is six weeks of retail space in Intu Lakeside, Thurrock, the retail centre with the highest footfall in the UK.

Co-founder Nick says: “We love Virgin and the representation that comes with the Virgin StartUp brand, and so to win it has been a mighty honour – we feel humbled. It’s an amazing way to celebrate our success, and our team have been watching it live on Facebook. Now it’s all about using this prize as a springboard as we move forward to Christmas…exciting things to come!”

Buckinghamshire business celebrates 14 years of success

One of Buckinghamshire’s best known PR agencies celebrated its 14th birthday this July. Cerub PR was founded in 2003 by Managing Director Ceri-Jane Hackling who explains: “We started from my spare room with a laptop and a mobile phone in 2003, so we are delighted to be celebrating our 14th anniversary.”

Over the past 14 years the company has worked with clients from across Buckinghamshire and the UK and its clients have appeared in a variety of media including Good Morning Britain, The Victoria Derbyshire Show and LBC, as well as national and regional print media.

Ceri-Jane goes on to say: “The industry has changed immensely over the past 14 years and we are operating in a digital landscape to a greater extent now and with some client stories going viral, clients are featured in media across the world including Australia, China and India.

“Despite the challenges that every small business faces, we’ve been lucky enough to work with some great clients and with a talented team and to have been involved with some wonderful people who have supported us on our journey so we look forward to many more successful years.”

A-Level students gain a taste of life at Bucks New University during two-month project

Students at two High Wycombe schools gained a taste of life in higher education during a two-month project with Buckinghamshire New University.

Around 60 A-Level Psychology students from Royal Grammar School and Sir William Ramsay School in High Wycombe took part in ‘Project Psychology: A Bucks collaboration with local schools’.

The University’s Department of Psychology set up the project for the students to take part in lectures and develop research projects at its campus in Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe.

Pupils sat in on lessons at the University and were tasked with developing a research proposal around a subject. The students also came up with ideas of how to tackle research around areas including empathy towards mental illness in criminals across genders and whether conformity is relevant today.

Buckinghamshire New University offers Business Management Top Up degree

Buckinghamshire New University’s Business and Management Top Up degree is designed to enhance career progression in a world of uncertainty, volatility and ambiguity, and is designed to upgrade a foundation degree in business to a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Business and Management. It is taught at the University’s campuses in Uxbridge, Middlesex; and in High Wycombe as a part-time evening course.

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