Company with big ambitions for a better world backs tve award

Octopus Group, one of the UK's fastest-growing private businesses, whose group of companies includes one of the country's biggest generators of renewable energy, is to sponsor the Transforming Society Award at the tve Global Sustainability Film Awards together with Fastflow Group. Founded in 2000, Octopus Group has invested more than £8 billion across healthcare, renewable energy and smaller companies.

We see a world that is ready for change, and we want to support and celebrate those that are thinking differently and striving for better,' says Simon Rogerson, CEO and co-founder, Octopus Group. At Octopus we put the needs of customers and society first; we invest in the people, industries and ideas that will help to change the world.

We believe that entrepreneurial ideas have the power to transform families, workplaces and communities, and the tve Awards provide a great platform for sharing these ideas.'

Simon will announce the winner of Transforming Society during the Awards ceremony at BAFTA on Monday 26 November. This is one of five competitive categories all of which, between them, address the Sustainable Development Goals, find the shortlisted films here.

Tickets for the awards ceremony, film screening, and gala dinner are now available on the Awards website.

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Octopus Group is sponsoring the Transforming Society Award. Founded in 2000 by award winning entrepreneurs Simon Rogerson and Chris Hulatt, Octopus is one of the UK's fastest growing businesses. It invests in the people, ideas and industries that will help to change the world, and manages more than £8.3 billion on behalf of its customers. The group has expertise in a number of sectors including healthcare infrastructure, renewable energy and smaller companies. Octopus Energy, Octopus Healthcare, Octopus Investments, Octopus Labs, Octopus Property and Octopus Ventures are all part of Octopus Group. www.octopusgroup.com

The tve Global Sustainability Film Awards are organised annually by the charity tve. The film competition recognises companies and institutions whose films most powerfully portray solutions for sustainability. This year's competition has attracted 42 entries. For the third year running we are focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which set ambitious targets for world development: eradicating poverty and hunger; ensuring good health, quality education and gender equality; and setting targets for affordable and clean energy, climate action and resp

nrybetwrqexonsible consumption and production. The president of the 2018 Awards is Claudine Blamey, group head of corporate responsibility and sustainability at Sainsbury's. www.gsfa.tve.org

tve is the non-profit based in London that organises the Awards. It creates and enables others to create powerful, effective communications about the environment and sustainable development. Through film, animation, documentaries, debates and social media, the media charity reaches global audiences, giving a voice to a new generation committed to a greener and fairer world. The Awards are tve's main annual fundraiser. www.tve.org

Fastflow Group is the Awards' main sponsor for the fourth year running. The company provides infrastructure maintenance and improvement services to Northumbrian Water and Scottish Water, FTSE top 100 company National Grid and Cadent Gas, and Housing Associations A2Dominion, Catalyst Housing, Southern Housing, Karbon Homes and Midland Heart. It delivers planned and responsive repairs for housing associations owning around 200,000 homes across the south of the UK. A recent addition to the business - County Durham and Derbyshire based Partner Group - designs and builds homes for housing associations and major asset owners across the UK.

Fastflow Group embraces the strategic, competitive advantages of a sustainable business model and conducts its business ethically, thereby establishing and maintaining long-term relationships to make a positive contribution to society www.fastflow.co.uk

Sky has partnered with tve to launch the Beyond Plastic category this year. Last year Sky News won the Press Association Award for Environmental Storytelling, for its documentary A Plastic Whale'. Through Sky Ocean Rescue, Sky is using its voice and potential reach to inspire simple, everyday changes to stop the oceans from drowning in plastic. Since January 2017 millions have engaged with Sky Ocean Rescue and Sky has ambitious plans for future engagement. As a business, Sky is committed to leading by example and transforming its own business by eliminating all single use plastics from its operations by 2020. It is encouraging and supporting innovation to develop solutions through Sky Ocean Ventures and is working to influence others to take action. Sky Ocean Rescue forms part of the Bigger Picture which also inspires the new generation through the power of sport, and invests further in creativity and diversity in our industry to make a difference.

Grace Bian is Awards vice-president for the third year running, and chair of the China International Culture Stock Exchange. Grace has created two new categories for the 2018 Awards: AI Empowering the Future and Global Digital Futures. An inventor with 73 intellectual property rights in her name, Grace focuses on the potential of smart cities to transform society through projects like mobile hospitals and smart health villages. Grace jointly owns a research and development centre with the China Academy of Sciences and is an economic advisor for the Chinese government. She is currently engaged in setting up platform technology for blockchain and cryptocurrency, aiming to improve the economic cycle in a way that better serves societal needs, and manages a team in Singapore which has completed 40 Initial Coin Offerings. She currently sits on boards and ad

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