Arcus Culture

…Does your company offer you PAID volunteering days? If so, or even if you want to volunteer anyway it’s an opportunity to.. Give back to the community Learn new skills Spend time with your colleagues out of the office and (dare I say it….) Maybe even enjoy yourself?!!  An absolutely glorious day at Heartwood: Making a difference to woodlands,… Read more »

For years and years the homeless charities and clothing banks of Cambridge have been reaping the rewards of discarded jackets and jumpers at the start of the Cambridge Half Marathon. One Step Beyond (OSB) runs a tight ship when it comes to distributing the discarded clothing at the start line, with thousands of runners desperate… Read more »

We challenged our staff to take a photo of the Arcus bottle wherever they went on their holibobs. This is a small sample of where it’s been! 🙂 Merry Christmas to all our customers and visitors! #arcusbottlesontour2024

Earlier this year at our company meeting we spent the afternoon building and decorating bird boxes as a team-building event.   It was a great success, with staff working with each other and contributing to an environmental project.   Once completed the remaining paints and crafting materials were packed away and we all went off… Read more »

Team-building exercises are often challenging, as finding activities that everyone enjoys and can participate in is not easy. It’s important to choose an activity that is practical, inclusive, and enjoyable for all, without relying on extreme sports or activities that might deter participation due to concerns about appearance or repetition. For this year’s company away… Read more »

Well, wasn’t that fun? Arcus knows how to throw a party (ed: you mean “work-focused event”). As always with these things – I’ll start with the old cliche. “I want to thank my mother, my friends, the Director(s) (the term actually works…!), and all my friends I’ve worked with over the years, because you’re the… Read more »

What an absolutely incredible year! Year on year, both ARR and implementation days/revenue percentage’s off the charts, as well as 15 new customers joining the ever growing Arcus Global community. Yesterday our team came together and celebrated our FY 23/24 achievements, concluding with the “Arcus Oscar’s”. Congratulations to our winners; Robin Barber, Ian Beardsley, Debbie… Read more »

Three days before taking on my first ever half marathon, what better way to calm down some of the numerous butterflies in my stomach, than to volunteer…. At the Cambridge half Marathon! Soaking up the pre-race atmosphere, meeting the founder of the race, lifting my body weight in Soreen bars and pre-emptively practicing with the… Read more »

We are celebrating after being commended as one of the UK’s Top 100 SMEs in the UK. Amidst hundreds of entries from a diverse range of sectors, we have been ranked #32 overall in the Elite Business 100 (EB100). To celebrate this sensational achievement, we will be included in the EB100 digital guide and online… Read more »

That’s a wrap, FY22/23! After a day of reflection on another hugely successful year, and discussing our strategies and goals for FY23/24, the Arcus Global team are ready to go again!

I’ve recently finished Matthew McConaughey’s autobiography, Greenlights. I confess, I’m an avid fan of the guy’s screen work. Dallas Buyers Club anybody? what a film! Yet, I’m always sceptical with autobiographies, regardless of author. Am I getting the whole story, warts n all, if you like?

Greenlights is a pretty balanced read/listen. He talks about a lot of the issues that affected him over the years, good and bad. His story’s set against the context of world growth and massive social change in recent years. It runs right up to #metoo, BLM & COVID 19, so it’s current. It resonates. Through his life journey, McConaughey describes all the positives that headed his way. He was getting a go sign, a reason to carry on, a Greenlight!

As part of Arcus Global’s commitment to supporting sustainability, we will be donating 100 tree saplings to any new and existing Local Authority customers to enrich their local communities – it’s something that we’re pledging to do every year. We will work with our customers to carefully identify the right location and species and help them source and plant in their areas.

Someone once told me that Project Management (PM) is about “being told things you don’t want to hear and telling people things they don’t want to hear”. PM certainly doesn’t come without its challenges and working with the Public Sector (notorious for its tight budgets and staff shortages) adds to it. However, having managed projects on both sides of the “fence”, I can say that it doesn’t have to always be like that.

I read this report from the Connected Place Catapult with great interest. I don’t disagree with the six principles outlined in the report. In fact, at Arcus we try to put these principles into action every day. However, in focusing wholly on the software suppliers, the report misses an opportunity to highlight some more fundamental issues.

In a company that predominantly works using the cloud, many of us are familiar with working from home. However, in the ‘time before Covid’, home working could also include a variety of in-person meetings with clients, travelling into the office to work with our colleagues, meeting up with them, and maintaining that ‘face-time’ which is so important to our working relationships.

Sweaty. That’s probably the best way to describe how I felt the morning of Tuesday 17th March 2020. The morning after the Government issued the Work From Home order and we officially invoked our Business Continuity Plan.

The alarm goes off on the Monday morning of another working week, and this new routine is slowly starting to settle in. I ask myself the first question of the day: do I have any video conferences or meetings ahead? If the answer is no, then casual wear it is. As much as I enjoy looking like something out of 1973 Eurovision every time I don my new headset, not having to decide on a work-appropriate outfit every morning is both time saving and liberating.

With people imagining what life will be like following the current pandemic, you often see them quoted as expecting working life to ‘go back to normal’. For me, that won’t work.

First thing’s first – I don’t think anyone could have done anything to prevent the level of disruption we are currently facing. No amount of preparation will give adequate protection from a once in a hundred years event. No amount of planning, stocking or preparing was going to cut it. Saying “we are not prepared” applies to almost every country and every business. The honest answer is that it costs too much to be prepared for something so rare and so extreme as this.

Hi, I’m Thomas, I’m 19 and in Sep-18, I became Arcus Global’s first Degree Apprentice.

Here in the first of our occasional series of Acronaut blogs, Nicola Edwards, shares her secrets about how she gets the information she needs from clients.

Arconauts Dominic Myers and Simon Cull have been running a weekly Code Club after school at St Andrew’s School in Soham since September 2016. 

Dan is very positive about his experience as an apprentice and could see no downside to being an apprentice other than his travel time. Dan says he enjoyed being in a more adult environment and preferred work to school.

From humble beginnings Starting out in the back of the old company BMW, Denis Kaminskiy and Lars Malmqvist travelled the length and breadth of England presenting their new and innovative idea to local and central government departments. Six months later, they moved into their first office at Castle Hill, Cambridge and began to expand the team. From… Read more »