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Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Charmaine Lawrence, founder of The Mogul Minded Group & N9NE Cosmetics, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? I went to the cinemas to watch Coco...
A pioneering higher educational institute that aims to transform the skills young people develop in schools, colleges and universities to create the next generation of entrepreneurs and managers is to open at UWE. The Aldridge Institute will be the first of its kind in the UK and will pull...
Bristol’s visitor economy was given a major boost today with the opening of the £7.2m Being Brunel museum – complete with a giant head of the famous engineer which visitors can walk inside to ‘see’ the workings of his mind. The museum, alongside Brunel’s ground-breaking SS Great Britain on...
Bristol-based quick service restaurant chain Friska has bolstered its ethical credentials by launching a refillable flask to mark World Water Day. Friska, which has a long-standing partnership with Bristol ethical bottled water firm Frank, hopes to raise awareness of water security issues in developing countries as well as stop...
Would-be participants in a pioneering programme to tackle the lack of diversity in Bristol’s tech cluster have just over a week to get their applications in. Called SHIFT, the project aims to address the imbalance in the sector by amplifying its underrepresented voices. The free course will give 12...
TV legend Sir David Attenborough will take part in an ‘in conversation’ session with friend, colleague and BBC Natural History Unit creative director Mike Gunton next month to help raise funds for concert venue St George’s Bristol’s music charity. The concert hall runs an active education programme, as well...
Mr B & Friends, the Bristol-based branding and marketing agency, has launched a new identity for the city’s historic St George’s music and spoken word venue. The rebrand is being rolled out as St George’s new season gets under way and ahead of its relaunch in April as a...
The Bristol offices of law firms Ashfords and DAC Beachcroft are backing the Lord Mayor of Bristol’s Children Appeal Annual Gift Gala, which raises money for disadvantaged children across the city. They have been announced as Gold sponsors of the event, joining headline sponsor Bristol commercial property consultancy Burston Cook....
Three of Bristol’s top emerging tech firms have been showcased by the city office of transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson as part of its International Innovation Week. The office staged a number of events to discuss the initiatives happening across the region and what Bristol – as the...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has advised long-standing client Sussex Place Ventures, the London-based venture capital investor, on its further investment in Kimble Applications. TLT worked with Sussex Place in 2015 when it first funded Kimble Applications, one of the world’s leading professional services automation (PSA) providers. Kimble’s PSA...
The UK Business Angels Association has launched an angel investment hub in Bristol, closing another gap in the city’s funding infrastructure for start-ups and scale-ups. The hub has been opened by the UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) in partnership with Bristol’s Engine Shed, the innovation centre at Temple Meads that...
Regional law firm Thrings, which has an office in Bristol, has strengthened its commercial offering to clients and reaffirmed its commitment to organic growth by appointing three newly-qualified solicitors. Alexia Aradipiotis, Carys Webb and Robyn Rumble have secured their positions after successfully completing structured, two-year training contracts with the...
