VMI Albert-Certified Carbon-Neutral for 2023 10th April 2024 For the second year in a row, VMI becomes Albert-Certified Carbon-Neutral by offsetting its 79.8T of Carbon emissions generated in 2022, in an Albert-Approved Scheme to build a solar panel power station in Morocco. VMI surveyed its staff and clients in an online poll in March 2024 and whilst overwhelmingly, 79% voted for VMI to … Read more
VMI Publishes Sustainability Film 15th July 2023 VMI publishes a short film to show our approach to sustainability and how we have reengineered our business to become an Albert-approved Carbon-Neutral rental company since 2022. We know that Carbon Neutrality isn’t the same as Net-Zero but we are completely committed to achieving Net-Zero Carbon Emissions by 2030 and this is a process that … Read more
VMI Halves Carbon Emissions since 2019 13th March 2023 VMI has completed its third Carbon audit, which confirms that CO2 emissions have reduced for a 3rd year and are now at half of 2019 levels, two full years ahead of schedule. It’s worth noting that VMI has managed to reduce their scope 3 emissions, while also increasing the scope 3 boundary for this reporting … Read more
Launch of VMI Microsite to show 20-year Sustainability Journey 31st January 2022 Not many people know that we have been working for almost 20 years to make VMI into a more sustainable and socially equitable company. We are totally committed to becoming a Net-Zero company by 2030 have launched a microsite to share our journey. Visit Microsite
VMI is a certified Great Place to Work! 20th January 2022 VMI has always striven to be a place that people enjoy working in and a recent independent audit by organisation, GreatPlaceToWork, has confirmed that 96% of VMI’s workforce judge VMI do indeed be a Great Place to Work. This certification required a minimum Trust Index© threshold to be achieved of at least 65% including appraisal … Read more
VMI wins National Climate Award Hero of Net Zero at COP 26 31st December 2021 VMI won a national award being crowned “Hero of Net Zero” by the UK Government at the international COP26 climate summit in November 2021 for its work on sustainability. More than 160 businesses entered the competition, making a commitment at the UK Business Climate Hub to achieve net zero by 2030, 20 years ahead of … Read more
VMI Christmas Jumper Day to help Save the Children 11th December 2021 VMI took part in Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 10 December 2021, where we all wore our silliest, most festive jumper on and raised £124 for Save the Children. Just by pulling on our Christmassy knits & donating, we wanted to to transform the future for children. Knowing that every pound raised … Read more
VMI 2021 Client Survey – 96% Service 6th December 2021 In December 2021, we held our 14th annual client satisfaction survey, asking all VMI clients who had hired from us in the previous 12 months exactly what they thought about us and we have included them for you here. Most importantly though, 40 of you voted VMI 4.8 on customer service (3 is average, 4 … Read more
VMI Shortlisted for Park Royal Business of the Year award 2022 24th November 2021 For the third year in as many years, VMI has been nominated as a finalist for the West London Business Awards. VMI has been shortlisted as one of three companies for the Green ‘Race to Zero’ Business of the Year but what is really surprising is that also, for the first time, we have been also shortlisted as one of three companies in the category of Park Royal Business of the Year. Read Full Story
VMI Retires all Tungsten Rental Lighting 14th October 2021 Tungsten is the most traditional form of TV/Film lighting still in use today, having replaced expensive and dangerous Carbon Arc fittings. In reality though, tungsten lighting fixtures ought to be called lighting heaters, since 96% of the energy used is output as heat, leaving only 4% to produce light. This makes them immensely inefficient and … Read more
VMI Stops Using Disposable AA Batteries 16th August 2021 We all know that disposable batteries are extremely harmful for our environment and for a long time, we have been keen to eradicate them from VMI but did not have sufficient confidence in rechargables to be able to commit. We felt compelled to continue using alkaline batteries simply to give us confidence that batteries would … Read more
VMI takes on three new Apprentices 10th August 2021 From left: Jonah Mann, Josh Barker, Matt Fisher. Dominique Unsworth recently posted on Linked-in, “I remember when everyone I spoke to said it couldn’t be done, it wouldn’t work, our industry (which was ironically built on apprenticeships) was too inflexible to ‘accommodate’ National Apprenticeship Service #Apprenticeships – this makes all the nagging, lobbying, meetings and consultations worth it. … Read more
Long-awaited UK Camera Tech Apprenticeship standard is rolled out 21st July 2021 More than 200 young hopefuls who initially lodged their interest in the new Camera Tech Apprenticeship programme, were reduced to 100 after the first sift, 56 at the second and just 42 received invitations to the activity and selection day event, hosted at the London Screen Academy on Wednesday 21 July. Next week, 11 firm … Read more
VMI’s Barry Bassett wins prestigious Nelsonian Award. 16th December 2020 A surprise announcement by Infinity Photo-Optical Company, saw VMI’s Managing Director, Barry Bassett being awarded their annual Nelsoniantm Award to recognise his work and lifetime commitment to imaging excellence and specifically in publishing his paper on macro and micro cinematography. A surprise announcement by Infinity Photo-Optical Company, saw VMI’s Managing Director, Barry Bassett being awarded … Read more