At Rocketmakers, we are proud to promote diversity within the start-up companies and entrepreneurs that we work with. Sadly we see firsthand the difficulties that female founders and mixed-founder groups face when attempting to raise investment. In fact, just one in three British entrepreneurs are women and less than 1% of UK venture funding goes to all-female teams. Similarly, an article on Sifted revealed 48% of black and minority-owned business owners don’t plan to access or expect to qualif

Rocketmakers’ founders, Richard Godfrey and Keith Walker were keen to grow a company culture that was supportive and understanding from the start. A huge aspect of this is promoting good mental health and physical wellbeing, something that has become even more vital in the last year. Rocketmaker’s graphic designer John Grigg now acts as a lead advocate for all wellbeing issues. When the first lockdown began last March, he began assembling a document now known as the “MedKit,” which lays out all

If you couldn’t already tell from our brand and ambition, Rocketmaker’s founders Richard and Keith were hugely inspired by NASA's values when setting up the company. In fact, the origin of the visual identity was to blend the professionalism, collaboration and ambition of the NASA space program with a tongue and cheek retro sci-fi style from the 1950’s. This theme is incorporated into most aspects of Rocketmaker’s identity from our logo, to our merchandise and interactive app. For our new offic

Last year I studied a semester abroad in Stockholm, I wanted to make the most of my time away and so I went out with the goal of trying to explore as much of Scandinavia and Northern Europe as I could. My first adventure was to Norway, in October 2018 I booked on a group tour ‘The Fjord Explorer’ with Scanbalt Experience who I highly recommend. I hope this post helps if you’re planning to organise a Norwegian trip yourself. We started our tour of Norway in the capital Oslo. After a long, but doa

Although the script for #Gunshow, written by Connor Macleod was completed a year ago, this piece has become more topical every day. #Gunshow tells the story of Gabe, a seventeen-year-old Southern American girl, whose hobby is to create YouTube videos reviewing firearms. Gabe struggles to make friends in real life and is grieving the death of her mother, she turns to violent online gaming as her solace. Charlotte Claydon excellently captures the online world on stage with the use of sound mixi