World Blood Donor Day: A-Positive experience for the Spark team

You might remember Andy’s blog post about our plans for the World Health Organization’s World Blood Donation Day – well, we put our money where our mouths (or arms!) are when the big day finally rolled around last week. Despite having a lot on our plate(let)s this month, snagging some top media...

Which managers have been bossing it in the Spark Fantasy Premier League?

Ferguson, Mourinho, Guardiola, Calotier…these are some of the greatest footballing minds of our generation, so it seems only right that one of them steps in to write a blog post about this season’s Spark Fantasy Premier League.

Whether we are claiming to have found the best new place for lunch,...

You can be a superhero – World Blood Donation Day 2022

You don’t need costumes and special effects to be a superhero. As Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen explain in this video, people may not realise it, but they have the power to alter reality and change timelines in other people’s lives.

The stars of Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the M...

Conferences in the wake of the pandemic

Recently I was lucky enough to fly out to Valencia to attend KubeCon. Firstly, a huge thanks to Spark client, Venafi, for hosting me. It was great to finally meet people I’ve been speaking to for months over Zoom.

This was the first time I’d attended a conference since before the pandemic. Amidst...

Celebrating Spark’s Green Initiatives: from Easter Eggs to Steps Challenges

Here at Spark, we pride ourselves on keeping abreast of the latest news – but you don’t need to be an expert to know the climate crisis is a major story right now. Something that really stuck with me recently when I was watching Barack Obama’s Our Great National Parks was the quote “we are the fir...