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St. James’s Place (SJP) is a leading UK wealth management firm, established in 1991 by Sir Mark Weinberg, Lord Rothschild, and the late Mike Wilson CBE. Over the years, it has grown to manage client funds exceeding £190 billion as of early 2025, serving nearly one million clients.

SJP offers a comprehensive range of wealth management services, including investment planning, retirement planning, protection planning, and corporate services. Their distinctive approach involves partnering with external fund managers, allowing flexibility to select specialists best suited to manage specific funds. This strategy ensures diversification and adaptability, as fund managers can be replaced without additional charges or tax implications for clients

The firm’s dedication to excellence has been recognized through multiple industry awards, including being named Wealth Management Company of the Year at the City of London Wealth Management 2023 Awards. St. James’s Place continues to adapt and innovate in the wealth management sector, maintaining a strong commitment to client satisfaction and responsible investing.

Studio Pictures is an independent production company dedicated to quality British film and television productions that cater for domestic and international audiences.

Our core focus is on book to screen adaptations and true-life stories that are unique, can entertain and ultimately inspire.

The company was founded by producers Adam Rolston and David Braithwaite. To date Adam and David have produced or executive produced the worldwide theatrical hit A Street Cat Named Bob, based on the international best-selling novel. The sequel A Christmas Gift From Bob, the rom-com A Guide To Second Date Sex starring George McKay, the kids fantasy adventure film 2:Hrs and the hard hitting teen drama Butterfly Kisses, which won the Silver Bear for best film in its category at the International Berlin Festival.

Studio Pictures has obtained SEIS/EIS advanced assurance from HMRC and are working with KickStart Capital to raise the initial investment to fund the company’s progress.

Studio Pictures is based at the world famous Shepperton Studios in Surrey, home of Netflix and Amazon and soon to be one of the largest film studios in the world.

A third of 18-35 year-olds wear an item out only once, and 60% want to ditch fast-fashion, but lack affordable, sustainable alternatives.

Swished is the UK’s first consumer to consumer fashion rental marketplace designed specifically for the mass-market – the biggest consumers of fashion – to provide an affordable, sustainable alternative to fast-fashion.

Swished enables our customers to continue to enjoy ‘new for them’ fashion from as little as £5 a day, but through renting rather than buying, saving them money and extending the life of items that would otherwise sit unworn in wardrobes or end up in landfill.

We also enable them to make money, by turning clothes they’re not wearing, or are in the process of selling, into additional income, especially important during the current economic climate.

Our mission is to normalise rentals, making fashion more inclusive, affordable and sustainable and in doing so reduce the reliance on fast-fashion.

Symvan Capital is a multi-award winning technology venture capital fund manager with an established record of growth-oriented investing. We manage SEIS and EIS funds with two open for investment.

We invest in scaleable and disruptive businesses — companies that seek to impact and change established models and in particular, that have developed the technology to take costs out of business processes.

We look for companies with unique propositions and the potential to deliver ten times your investment within reasonable time frames.

Our focus is to find founders with strong teams who have the vision, drive and flexibility to deliver results.

We don’t just fund them: we mentor and support through to exit. Our investments are supported by Symvan’s investment directors who have more than fifty years combined experience in tech investment banking (ECM, corporate finance, M&A and AIM listing work).

Investee companies can also count on the technical expertise of our world-class advisory team in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.

We pride ourselves on our selection process which involves a six-stage due diligence process; and also for our “Lifecycle Approach” where our SEIS funds are the incubators from which the best performing companies can then progress to receive further funding from our EIS fund.

And finally, our fee structure is one of the simplest and most transparent in an industry not known for it: the only fee we charge investors is a 20% performance fee on successful exits.

The SidebySide EIS Venture Fund invests in fast-growing technology-enabled businesses with £1-10 million in revenue. These more established companies will usually be at least several years old and typically have over 30 employees. We look for companies where there is evidence of a strong customer acceptance of the product and service offered, and where we believe we can add substantively to the knowledge and experience of the management team as the company grows.

Thompson Taraz is a leading UK fund services group, incorporating depositary services, third party fund management, investment structuring, operator services, custody, administration and security trustee services.

Thompson Taraz Depositary Limited is a full scope independent UK depositary regulated by the FCA and is the leading provider of services to EIS funds as well as property, private equity, debt, renewable and venture funds.

Thompson Taraz is also an established provider of administration and accounting services to closed ended UK AIFs. These services are informed by Thompson Taraz’s work as a regulated operator and Manager of UK funds for more than a decade. We provide a ‘hosted’ AIF Manager solution to AIFs, allowing experts to focus on their areas of expertise and be assured that everything else is taken care of reliably, rigorously and professionally.

We bring to the role a depth of understanding of professional standards, complex systems, quality controls and compliance processes, and deliver a service which is of value to a range of UK-based funds and their managers.