Bristol media firms looking at ways of engaging with emerging tech can apply for funding under a scheme designed to explore future content creation and distribution. The Amplified Publishing Pathfinder project offers funding ranging from £5,000 each for six industry partners to £12,000 each for six fellowships to give...
Bristol-based ‘intelligent video’ innovator One Big Circle has been selected to take part in a national programme linking tech scale-ups with the UK’s largest transport firms. The firm, which already supplies its cutting-edge technology to Network Rail, Transport for Wales and Siemens, is one of just nine taking part in...
An ambitious, long-term sustainability programme has been launched by TLT, the Bristol-headquartered national law firm, to make it a net zero emissions organisation within four years. The plan includes assessing its greenhouse gas emissions and establishing carbon reduction targets among other measures. TLT, which employs more than 120 partners...
Bristol’s pandemic-hit meetings and events industry is to get free access to a pioneering scheme that allows events staged in different cities to link up through live-streaming technology. Nationwide initiative Hybrid Event Solutions UK (HESUK) has been launched by the convention bureaus covering England’s main cities – including the...
Sanderson, the long-established Bristol-headquartered recruitment group, has appointed Ross Crook as managing director of its outsourced recruitment division. Ross, pictured, joins Sanderson Solutions from Cielo Talent, where he spent more than 10 years and played a central role in driving domestic and international growth. He now plans to replicate...
Regional law firm Michelmores has strengthened its employment offering by recruiting two new partners. International immigration lawyer Philip Barth and employment lawyer Kate Gardner have joined the growing department, with Philip now leading Michelmores’ growing immigration team. Philip Barth, who joins from Irwin Mitchell’s London office, brings more than 30...
Bristol-based specialist energy investment company Thrive Renewables has become the latest firm in the city to be certified as a B Corporation, proving its commitment to people and planet over profit. B Corp businesses must meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal...
Bristol branding agency Mr B & Friends has been appointed as the primary brand and marketing agency for kitchen towel and toilet tissue firm Regina UK as it seeks to grow its share of the UK market. Regina’s core brands include Blitz household towels, Seriously Soft and Seriously Strong...
A platform for investment into the burgeoning UK anaerobic digestion (AD) sector has secured an £85m debt financing with the help of a team from experts from Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon. The syndicated financing, provided by NatWest, Allied Irish Banks and Banco Sabadell, will be used by...
A Bristol craft brewery and an historic waterside hostelry in the city it recently renovated have been shortlisted in the UK pub industry’s leading awards. Butcombe Brewing Co and its parent company Liberation Group are in the running in three categories in the prestigious Publican Awards, which champion the...
Small firms impacted by the coronavirus pandemic can apply for one of 100 fully funded internships in a scheme run by the University of Bristol. The university hopes the £125,000 scheme, which it is funding partly from alumni donations, will help struggling businesses while also giving students vital work experience. The...
Salma Maqsood, a senior associate at Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby Solicitors, has been selected for a Law Society scheme that encourages and supports young people from non-traditional backgrounds to enter the profession. Salma, pictured, is one of 12 new social mobility ambassadors appointed this year by the Law Society...
Specialist employment lawyer Angela West has joined Davies & Partners Solicitors as a senior associate to head the employment law team in its Bristol office. Angela, pictured, who has more than 20 years’ experience in employment law, joins from Goughs Solicitors in Wiltshire, where she worked for five years...
