Bristol’s SETsquared incubator has chosen Ashley Community Housing and Up Our Street as research partners for its innovative upcoming diversity and inclusion research project. The project aims to improve and increase the inclusion and representation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) business founders applying to the incubator. Research...
Lockton, the world’s largest privately-owned insurance broker, has strengthened its professional services expertise with the appointment of James Page to its team in Bristol as senior vice-president. James, pictured, comes with 15 years of specialist professional indemnity insurance experience, having most recently held the role of director at Bristol-based...
A cross-firm team at Bristol-headquartered Burges Salmon has advised HSBC Bank and Bank Leumi (UK) on a major refinancing of retirement village developer Audley Group. The £125m revolving credit facility to Audley Group to refinances its existing facilities with AIG, Bank Leumi and Coutts and will fund existing and...
Bristol Wood Recycling Project has relocated to an industrial unit in the St Philips area of the city – ending the social enterprise’s anxious search for a new home. The Bristol office of property agents JLL acquired the William Street premises on behalf of the project, which has been...
Future Space, Bristol’s first science and tech hub, contributed more than £2m to the regional economy within its first year, new figures reveal. The innovation centre, which was the first flexible office space in Bristol to also offer private and shared laboratory space to start-up R&D-heavy enterprises, exceeded all...
Long-standing Bristol marketing and communications agency Proctor & Stevenson has completed its move to a former industrial printworks in Easton following a near £1.5m refurbishment project. The agency, founded by managing director Roger Proctor in 1979, said the relocation from Cave Street, St Pauls, was enabling it to be...
Bristol communications consultancy Purplefish has been appointed as media relations partner for Redrow Homes’ West Country division. The agency will work with the housebuilder in Devon and Cornwall to communicate its key messages and promote its developments through PR and social media. Purplefish has worked with Redrow’s South West...
Bristol’s ethical organisations have just two days left to submit their entries to the region’s Fairtrade Business Awards. Applications for the prestigious contest – now in its sixth year – close at midnight on Sunday. The awards recognise the contribution that businesses, organisations and institutes in the region make...
Bristol Airport today announced that Southampton Airport managing director Dave Lees has been appointed as its new chief executive officer. Mr Lees, pictured, will take up his new role on August 1. He has also served as operations director and planning & development director at Southampton Airport, which has...
The BBC has renewed its contract with SCISYS, the specialised software and IT services firm with an office in Bristol, for its world-leading radio technology. The deal extends the BBC’s use of SCISYS Media & Broadcast division’s dira! media asset management platform, pictured, for up to 10 years. The...
Small and medium-sized businesses in the Bristol area can benefit from research and development grants of up £75,000 under UWE Bristol’s relaunched Innovation 4 Growth (I4G) grant funding programme. The popular initiative, which recently opened for the fifth time, pledges a total of £650,000 in funding. SMEs in any...
Cats Protection, the UK’s largest feline welfare charity, is on the prowl across the South West for a suitable location for a major ‘department store’ and donation centre to serve the region. The charity has 120 charity shops nationwide – 19 of them in the South West – with...
Bristol’s small to medium-sized manufacturers are being urged to have their say in a major research project into productivity in the sector across the UK. Recent economic data has suggested UK industry is starting to solve the so-called ‘productivity puzzle’ with efficiency levels in the sector showing signs of...
