About

The Gloucestershire Media Group was formed in 2003 by a consortium of local media and education professionals with initial funding from South West Screen and a mission to support and help grow the Creative Industries across the county.

We provide our membership of more than one thousand Creative Industries companies and freelancers with sector specific skills and training courses, networking opportunities, a supported creative office environment, members’ events and master classes.

On a daily basis, the group is run by Geoff Foulkes the Project Director.

The GMG’s office is located within Alexandra Warehouse, Gloucester Docks. To view GMG’s Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Complaints policies, click here.

Geoff Foulkes, Project Director
Geoff joined The GMG in November 2010 from theatrical distributor CinemaLive where he managed UK acquisitions and productions. As Director of Acquisitions at media giant Warner Vision International Geoff developed and commissioned titles for DVD and broadcast across a range of genres – music, drama, sport, and comedy. His cinema Producer credits include Monty Python’s 40th Anniversary Show “Not The Messiah (he’s a very naughty boy)” and the West End production of the award winning Australian play “Holding The Man”. He developed and produced the long running “ITV at the Festivals” strand with the network and has produced numerous live concert films and videos for artists as varied as New Order, Deep Purple, Paul Weller, & Bjork. Geoff oversees all aspects of the GMG with a particular brief to build on the commercial development of the organisation and its relationships with creative businesses across Gloucestershire and beyond.

Lee Stephens, Action Image Productions Ltd
(AIP); an independent production company based in Cheltenham. AIP have, for a many years, been delivering a wide range of productions, both locally and nationally, across the Private and Public sectors for household names such as C&G, Lloyds TSB, Nestle and Bacardi as well as the University of Birmingham, NHS and local Councils. Before moving fully into the media industry Lee spent many years in the private sector and this has provided him with a wealth of management skills and business knowledge which he has been able to put to good use. He is passionate about supporting the local creative sector and individuals applying this in his own business as well as supporting the GMG.

Greg Browning, Silicon 19 Media
Greg has his fingers in a number of carefully selected pies. Having completed his post-graduate training at the BBC, Greg worked as a Network Analyst for BBC Transmission (now part of Arquiva) advising an M&A team on broadcast and telecoms acquisition projects across Europe. In 2001 he founded Silicon19 Media Ltd, a boutique media services company specialising in broadcast and media production within the fields of arts and science. Clients include Channel 4, The Royal Society, Glyndebourne Opera and British Red Cross. Recently he has been involved with U-soap Media Ltd, a TV and online format development company based in Bristol, serving as Business Development Director and board member. Greg is also Senior Producer and MD at Polyphonic Films, recently exec producing their critically acclaimed debut feature The Full Monteverdi. The film has been broadcast across the globe and released on DVD by Naxos Global.

Andy Freedman, Cirencester Media Academy
Andy is Head of the Cirencester Media Academy which provides training for industry professionals, students and the community, and has been in partnership with the GMG since 2004. The Academy has close links with a range of local companies including Aardrman Animations, EHS Brann and is a partner in North by South West, one of the Skillset Media Academies.
Cirencester students regularly win video production awards and many former students now work in the industry. Andy continues to have practical involvement in some of the corporate work produced at Cirencester..
Previously Andy worked at Media Arts in Swindon (now Create Studios) providing training for companies, organisations and freelancers in screenwriting, finance and production management and set up UK’s first screenwriting residency. At various times Andy has been part of Bristol Film Makers Co-op, wrote scripts for BBC schools TV and was involved in Media education and training in Bristol and London. He represented the South West on the BFI’s Film and Video Forum, has been a consultant for the Film Council and is involved in a number of industry training projects. This includes writing media production units for Edexcel and training materials for publishers. Currently Andy is chair of the Gloucestershire Digital Arts Forum, a trustee of Stroud Valleys Artspace and an investor in the Stroud Brewery. When he is not in meetings, Andy likes to spend time up mountains, in the cinema or trying to catch waves.

Andy Barr, 10 Yetis
Andy Barr has worked for a number of leading global companies in senior Marketing or Public Relations roles. This includes the likes of AXA, then the 15th largest company in the world, Fast Moving Consumer Goods company Uniliver, and the world’s largest surface passenger transport company, First Group.
Despite having never worked in a PR Agency before, Andy and his business partner Jilly formed 10 Yetis 5 years ago having got fed up of the fact many agencies charge for work regardless of the poor results achieved. They wanted to create an agency that relied on quirky angles and brilliant national journalist relationships to deliver the kind of return on investment that companies need from their public relations activity.
From a back bedroom business, 5 years on and the company employs 15 people and can now list big name brands such as IKEA Family Mobile, TotalJobs, Caterer.com, MyVoucherCodes and sunshine.co.uk amongst its client list. Andy is regularly asked to deliver talks on offline and online public relations and digital media tactics, and has done so across the globe and at many Universities.

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