Hawksmoor sponsors a wide variety of events – at an overall company level, and through individual offices.
We sponsor local arts, music, culture and sport as a way to support the communities in which we operate.
Exeter Chiefs
Hawksmoor Investment Management is very proud to support Premiership rugby team Exeter Chiefs for the 2019/20 season.
As Player Sponsor for prop Ben Moon, we are delighted to pledge our support for our local Premiership side, who in addition to finishing top of last season’s table were also the only Premiership team to make a profit last year.
Exeter Chiefs have always understood the importance of the club’s relationship to the local community. They have a reputation for hard work and integrity that is the envy of other Premiership clubs, and their ethos of consistency coupled with the highest ambition is likely to serve them well in the future.
Slow Fashion Show Exeter
Hawksmoor is delighted to be sponsoring the Slow Fashion Show held in Exeter Cathedral. The show is organised by independent ethical clothing and lifestyle retailer Sancho's who explain:
"Slow fashion is the antidote to the fast pace that has enveloped the fashion industry. A process that has become increasingly damaging to the earth and the people on it. Our goal is to make people think twice before buying, about where and how an item was produced."
Taunton Flower Show
Hawksmoor's Taunton Office is the principal sponsor of the Taunton Flower Show.
The show's competitive classes are open to all and consist of approximately 250 different classes for amateur gardeners, crafters, floral artists and children. It has been a regular feature of Taunton's summer since 1831, and is held in Vivary Park in Taunton.
Toby’s Garden Festivals
Toby Buckland’s Garden Festivals are now in their 6th year, and Hawksmoor is delighted to sponsor the “VIP Experience” for their 2020 event at Powderham Castle in Devon.
Toby is well-known to gardeners across the country as a presenter of BBC Gardeners’ World and as a regular on Gardeners’ Question Time. The Garden Festivals started in 2014 when Toby and his wife Lisa decided to create a gardening event which champions smaller, specialist nurseries, to give them a chance to reach a wider audience and allow gardeners to get the best advice. Their ethos is to “work with local nurseries, artisans and craftspeople, to promote local, quality and home-grown.”
Visitors to the Garden Festivals can see over 150 exhibitors, with quality plants from award-winning nurseries, West Country crafts, artisan food and drink along with live music and family entertainment.
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
Hawksmoor is delighted to be a Premium Corporate Sponsor of the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival - South West England’s most outstanding literary festival, which consistently attracts leading contemporary fiction authors, poets, travel writers, sports journalists, scientists, food writers, historians, economists and current affairs commentators.
The mission of the festival is to celebrate great writing with as wide an audience as possible, and is supported by its Honorary President, double Man Booker Prize winner Dame Hilary Mantel DBE.
Central Redstar F.C.
Hawksmoor Fund Managers are proud sponsors of Central Redstar football team, who play in the Division 2 U16s Exeter and District Youth League.
The team started their 2019/20 season with a convincing 6-0 victory over Sidmouth, but the manager emphasises a style of play that focuses on the boys' enjoyment of the game, rather than the result - which is a refreshing contrast to many sports teams at this level.
TedXExeter
TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. The conferences have been going for over 30 years, and invite the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Videos of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com.
TedxExeter is Exeter’s local ideas festival with global reach – now in its 8th year. It is an independently organized TED event and in 2019 it promises, as always, a “day of inspiring talks, connection and action.”
Hawksmoor is sponsoring this year's event once again because the emphasis that TedxExeter places on inspiring communities to help tackle difficult problems with innovation, enterprise and optimism aligns very closely with our own mindset. At Hawksmoor we feel strongly about making a difference in the communities in which we operate, and we offer innovative solutions for ethically-minded investors who wish to make changes to the world through their investment choices.
RAMM Development Trust
Hawksmoor is a major sponsor of the RAMM Development Trust. The Trust was set up in 1994 to advance the education of the public by the promotion, support and improvement of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum. RAMM is one of Exeter City Council’s award-winning services. It subscribes to a range of nationally-recognised standards.
Awards and standards include Museum of the Year 2012, the national Designation Scheme, the Accreditation Scheme for Museums in the United Kingdom and Inspiring Learning for All.
Exeter City FC
Hawksmoor's Exeter Office supports Exeter City F.C. The team play in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system, and the club is owned by the club's supporters through the Exeter City Supporters' Trust.
EAT Festivals – Taste, Cook, Grow
EAT Food and Drink Festivals are a series of one-day festivals that celebrate local producers and products from within a 25 mile radius of each town. The festivals are free to attend and are run as a social enterprise, where all profits are ploughed into other local food and drink projects.
Hawksmoor’s Taunton office is delighted to sponsor the 'Best in Show' award at the Taunton and Wellington Festivals in 2019.
Bury St Edmunds Rugby Club
Our Bury St Edmunds office have been sponsors of Bury St Edmunds rugby club for several years.
Bury Rugby Club is one of the largest sports clubs in East Anglia with active mini, juniors and ladies sides playing every week.
Cerne Abbas Music Festival
The Dorchester office of Hawksmoor Investment Management is a proud supporter of the Cerne Abbas Music Festival.
The Festival was founded in 1990 by Richard Hosford, leader of the Gaudier Ensemble and resident of Dorset. He was looking for a location that gave the musicians an attractive venue in which to perform, and where they could all be together for a week to play the music they wanted to play, at the highest artistic standards. He wanted to develop strong links with the community, provide accessible music to the people of Dorset and create a stimulating environment for local young musicians and children.
Cerne Abbas was his chosen location, partly because of the excellent acoustics of St Mary's Church but also because of the village and its community.
