Making Christmas Green

Join us as we find the joy in all things Christmas for 2021, and the big green man himself, The Grinch, brings the realities for a Green Christmas.

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It’s Christmas time already! Hasn’t 2021 flown by?

From all of us here at Sleeping Giant Media, we’d like to wish you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays & A Giant New Year.

Looking back over 2021, we can see we’ve accomplished some Giant things, and hope you have too.

We managed to take on 30 new Giants, growing our service offering and boosting the business. And guess what, we’re still hiring with some awesome plans to come in 2022!

We got to launch The Spark Agency with the aim of helping other businesses achieve their digital marketing goals through set packaged solutions and that’s doing amazingly, with a fast-growing team too.

We hosted workshops and trained hundreds of people, we attended business events where we were able to – reconnecting with people across the UK. We saw some Giant results for clients, bringing on some big brands to our portfolio and scaling up smaller businesses to Giant sizes.

We even launched a game towards the end of this year aimed purely at helping people to Find The Joy – our internal and external mission statement after a kinda crazy couple of years. You can still play that btw… just submit a score to the leaderboard for a chance to win awesome prizes.

We were listed as one of The Drums Top Digital Agencies, we won awards under The Investors In People for our reward, recognition and employee engagement programmes, and were even finalists for Employer of The Year, Customer Service Awards and Commitment To The Environment Award. Fantastic, right?

All in all, we focused this year, across our Giants and our clients on connecting, building foundations and finding the joy 👏

To all that have been part of our journey, or will play a part in the future, we love you!

Christmas Fun Facts

from Cindy Lou Who & The Grinch

“Did you know the scientists at Nasa calculated that Santa visits 822 homes a second to deliver all the world’s presents, travelling at 650 miles a second!”

“Did you know that Unilever suggests 4.2 million Christmas dinners are wasted each year in the UK from leftovers? Enough to feed everyone in Folkestone 90 times. Buy only what you need, look up ways to use leftovers in recipes.”

“Did you know that Silent Night is the most-recorded Christmas song in history?! It’s had more than 733 different copyrighted versions in the last 50 years.”

“Did you know, waste management company, Biffa, suggests that more than 100 million bags of rubbish are sent to landfill each Christmas, weighing an estimated 3 million tonnes (weight of 300 Eiffel Towers). Reduce, reuse, recycle.”

“Did you know that if you gave all the gifts listed in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” it would equal 364 presents?”

“Did you know, £42 million of unwanted Christmas presents are thrown in a landfill every year?”

“Did you know that Christmas Eve & Day are the two most popular days of year to propose? An estimated 100,000 proposals are likely to take place this Christmas season.

“Did you know, in 2018, 400,000 tonnes of paper & card and 114,000 tonnes of plastic packaging was thrown into landfill when it could have been recycled.”

How To Have A More Green Christmas

Our Giants love to inspire others to make more green, sustainable choices for their Christmas – from gift choice, through to the wrapping itself… check out some of our guides an advice.