Fastflow Group is headline sponsor for the 2019 tve Film Awards

For the fifth year running, leading utilities and property services company, Fastflow Group is the main sponsor of the tve Global Sustainability Film Awards. Now in its eighth year, the competition recognises companies whose films most powerfully portray solutions for sustainability in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Fastflow Group recently merged with United Living, a specialist in new and refurbished housing. Our two companies share key values with sustainability being at the core of what we do. Like us, United Living take their responsibilities to customers, residents and the environment and communities in which we work, very seriously,' said Neil Armstrong, chairman of Fastflow Group and now CEO of the combined group.

The tve Film Awards are a way of encouraging the private sector to take sustainability seriously, by putting those companies who are really focused on the UN SDGs in the spotlight. We are honoured to be main sponsor for the fifth year.'

Lucy Walmsley, tve's business and sustainability programme manager, said: Fastflow Group work with us to ensure the Awards have real impact in the business arena each year, and their passion and know-how on sustainability is exactly what the annual tveAwards are about.'

Following the Awards launch in Cannes during the Film Festival, the competition is now open to film entries from companies championing sustainability practices around the world. Businesses that submit their entry form by the first early-bird deadline today can benefit from discounted entry fees. Find out how to enter here! The final deadline to showcase your films through the Awards is 10 October, 2019.

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Fastflow Group employs over 1,100 people across the UK and operates within the support services sector. It provides infrastructure maintenance and improvement services to Northumbrian Water and Scottish Water, and a wide range of high pressure gas transmission engineering projects for clients such as National Grid and Cadent Gas. From Thame, Oxfordshire it delivers planned and responsive repairs for housing associations such as A2Dominion, Catalyst Housing, Southern Housing and Karbon Homes, owning around 200,000 homes across the south of the UK.

Fastflow Group has recently merged with United Living, a new and refurbished housing specialist, allowing them to broaden their maintenance and development capability in the property sector.

The company embraces the strategic, competitive advantages of a sustainable business model and conducts its business ethically to make a positive contribution to society. Fastflow Group has supported the tve Awards since 2014 and has been main sponsor since 2015. www.fastflow.co.uk

The annual tve Global Sustainability Film Awards are in now their 8th year. Jennifer Viccars, Octopus Group's brand and marketing director, is president of the 2019 Awards which are now open for entries. Businesses and institutions globally are invited to enter films into the following competitive categories, which focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Companies taking Climate Action, Transforming Society, Sustainable Transactions, Sky: Beyond Plastic, Infrastructures for the Future, and AI and Digital Innovation. tve will also run the nominated categories, The Founder's Award for Sustainability on the Big Screen, an award for feature length films addressing one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals; and the PA Award for Environmental Storytelling. 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 fundraiser each year. www.tve.org

Sky has partnered with tve to sponsor the Beyond Plastic category for a second year. Through Sky Ocean Rescue, Sky is using its voice and reach to inspire simple, everyday changes to stop the oceans from drowning in plastic. Since January 2017 over 45.8 million people are aware of the campaign and 7 million Sky households have changed their attitudes towards single-use plastic. Sky has ambitious plans for future engagement with more ground-breaking content and sports partnerships. 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, a 25M venture fund. www.sky.com/

PA has partnered with tve for the PA award for environmental storytelling for the third year. The award recognises television programming - news, current affairs and factual in a range of formats - which best engages the audience with the environment. Established as the Press Association in 1868, PA is the UK's leading provider of multimedia content and services. PA remains the national news agency for the UK and Ireland, serving the major media and digital brands around the world, businesses and public sector organisations. PA's products and services also span pictures, video, data APIs, hosted live blogs, graphics, listings pages, social media curation and page production. The news agency is part of the PA Group of specialist media companies. www.pa.media/

Azad Ayub has founded the new Infrastructures for the Future category for the 2019 Awards. Prior to his career in property, Azad practiced as a senior civil and structural engineer for over 15 years at Freeman Fox and Partners, where he was involved in many large scale infrastructure projects such as the design and supervision of the M5 Motorway in Devon, the

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