brightfive

We’re pleased to share that we’ve relocated to a new home in the city of York. Our new space is at the Bonding Warehouse, a Grade II listed building located along the River Ouse.

The space includes coworking studios, meeting and event spaces, and a podcast studio, which we’ll use for our remote presenter recordings. The versatile event spaces are also ideal for hosting clients.

The building has been carefully restored by Patch, who offer an inspiring and collaborative environment for Yorkshire to work and connect.

It’s a bit of a full circle moment for us, as some of us used to perform in music gigs and others attended messy 18th birthday parties in the building back in the 1990s.

We’re settling in well, although we may need to rein in our use of the unlimited caffeine 🤪.

The brightfivers are back and ready for 2025.

New notepads for the win.

Our events team has just completed a fantastic hybrid event from Berlin. With 200 in-person and up to 3,000 remote guests, this celebratory evening combined business updates from Senior Executives with a fantastic DJ set from superstar DJ Felix Jahen.

Our brightfive team worked together seamlessly across 4 locations and with local technical experts in Berlin to deliver a seamless event for one very happy client.

So, what have we learnt in the last 20 years?

As you may have already seen, brightfive turned 20 last month. Big birthdays can put you in a reflective sort of mood, and in this spirit, our co-founder and director, Katie Frost, looks back at her time at brightfive and the lessons learnt along the way.

20 years of brightfive: what have we learnt? October 2023 marked our 20th birthday. Over the last two decades we’ve grown our business against an ever-shifting landscape of industry changes, technological developments, a recession and a global pandemic. We’ve seen team members come and go, we’ve moved offices (a handful of times) and wel...