June was an incredibly proud month at Silverback, with our Pride campaign. Our aim was to bring together the company to celebrate and commemorate the LGBTQIA+ community.

Silverback are committed to ensuring our Pride activities have a meaningful impact, so our 2023 events were run with the key aim of raising money for Bristol Pride Without Borders. The charity helps LGBTQ+ people live in safety as asylum seekers and new refugees. They meet basic needs, organise queer friendly events, provide weekly support groups, and peer to peer support. Most importantly they carry out casework to support people’s asylum claim based on gender and sexual orientation.

We began Pride month with a staff bake and sticker sale, which saw the office being overtaken with rainbow themed cakes and staff-designed sticker artwork. One of our Pride campaign themes was queerness in nature, a nod to the green stripe of the Pride flag. In keeping with this, we opted for a ‘greener’ approach to our Silverback Pride t-shirts, we held a tie dye event which invited staff to bring their own clothing to create colourful attire for Pride. A lasting legacy of this year’s campaign is the Silverback Staff Zine, for which we had a great number of contributions. From painting to cookery, prose to cross stitch, the aim of the publication is to highlight the variety of perspectives and breadth of skills our staff have outside of their job responsibilities.

Finally,  Silverback once again joined the Bristol Pride Parade which took place in July. The march was a great success, bringing together companies centred on wildlife to march in solidarity and celebration of LBGTQ+ communities – our staff, alongside friends and family, marched with industry colleagues from Bristol-based Offspring Films, Plimsoll Productions and Wildspace Productions among many others.