DAS has been a pioneer of the legal expenses insurance market since the concept was first introduced to the UK in 1975. The company provides protection against unforeseen legal costs to millions of families and motorists, and hundreds of thousands of businesses every year, offering both before-the-event and after-the-event products and a range of telephone advice and assistance services, including the flagship legal advice service. DAS is an authorised and regulated insurance company.Based in Bristol, with offices in London, Manchester and Bedwas, South Wales, as well as a branch offices in Dublin and Toronto, DAS employs some 600 staff and has become one of the UK's leading specialist insurers.
Bristol Academy Women's Football Club is a women's association footballteam from the city of Bristol, who compete in theFA WSL, the highest division of women's football in England. Formed in 1998 as Bristol Rovers W.F.C, they are now affiliated with theBristol Academy of Sport, based atSouth Gloucestershire and Stroud College, playing their home games at the purpose built Stoke Gifford Stadium. The club were runners-up in the FA Women's Cup in 2011, which gave them a place in the 2011-12 UEFA Women's Champions League. They were FA Women's Cup runners up again in 2013.