Creative/Media

City centre businesses urged to get on board cargo bike scheme to help deliver a more sustainable future

February 23, 2024
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City centre businesses urged to get on board cargo bike scheme to help deliver a more sustainable future

A cargo bike scheme has been launched in Bristol city centre to encourage businesses to stop using vans for local deliveries. The scheme, started by the Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) covering the city centre and Redcliffe & Temple areas, will provide subsidies to businesses that switch to using the...

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A lesson in representation for the TV industry as Bristol-filmed public school comedy draws on local talent

February 23, 2024
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A lesson in representation for the TV industry as Bristol-filmed public school comedy draws on local talent

The production team behind a new Bristol-filmed BBC comedy-drama has praised the city for its commitment to representation and talent development on both sides of the camera. Boarders was filmed entirely in Bristol and the South West with support from Bristol Film Office last year. The six-part high energy...

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Young professionals’ group looking to make this year its most successful yet for fundraising

February 23, 2024
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Young professionals’ group looking to make this year its most successful yet for fundraising

A Bristol informal networking organisation set up following drinks between friends in 2005 and which has grown to almost 2,000 members is celebrating another year of supporting good causes in the city. Bristol Young Professionals (BYP) has awarded grants totalling more than £37,000 since its launch. Now the group,...

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Capital move for expanding Bristol branding agency as it targets clients in London

February 23, 2024
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Capital move for expanding Bristol branding agency as it targets clients in London

Bristol-based independent brand consultancy Mr B & Friends has officially opened for business in London and has already signed up its first client. The new base in the capital, the agency’s second, comes amid continued growth and plans for a US office later this year. Founded by CEO Simon...

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Michelmores hosts event for female founders and angel investors ahead of International Women’s Day

February 22, 2024
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Michelmores hosts event for female founders and angel investors ahead of International Women’s Day

Law firm Michelmores’ angel investor network is to stage an event in Bristol next week during which four female-founded businesses will be given the chance to pitch for investment. The event, on Tuesday 27 February, is also aimed at recruiting more female angel investors as well as helping accelerate the...

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Developer seeking public comments before pressing ahead with redevelopment of The Galleries

February 16, 2024
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Developer seeking public comments before pressing ahead with redevelopment of The Galleries

The Bristol-based developer aiming to transform the city’s Galleries shopping centre is keen to get the public’s response to what it is calling a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a world-class, sustainable, vibrant destination”. Deeley Freed is shortly to submit outline plans to Bristol City Council for the scheme, which...

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Pioneering Bristol project that is transforming the potential of music therapy picks up kids’ tech award

February 16, 2024
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Pioneering Bristol project that is transforming the potential of music therapy picks up kids’ tech award

A scheme from Bristol using technology to enable people of all abilities to create music has won a prestigious EdTech award. The Soundbeam Project was shortlisted in the SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) Resources, Products, and Services category of the Bett Awards for Soundbeam, its touch-free device, pictured,...

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Developing nations get free access to vital flood risk intelligence developed by Bristol Uni spin-out

February 16, 2024
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Developing nations get free access to vital flood risk intelligence developed by Bristol Uni spin-out

Data from advanced computer modelling tools developed by a Bristol firm is to be used to help predict devastating floods in some of the world’s poorest countries. Fathom, which is already a leader in global flood risk intelligence, is to offer its data free of charge for non-commercial use...

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‘Amazement park’ secures impact funding to support its mission to widen access to Bristol’s creativity

February 15, 2024
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‘Amazement park’ secures impact funding to support its mission to widen access to Bristol’s creativity

Bristol impact investor BBRC (Bristol & Bath Regional Capital) has backed the city’s unique Wake The Tiger immersive visitor attraction with funding worth £350,000 to support the next stage of its ambitious growth. The ‘amazement park’, pictured, opened its long-awaited 1,000 sq m OUTERverse second phase to the public...

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Remodelled 1960s flagship office block snapped up by global investment firm for £36.5m

February 15, 2024
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Remodelled 1960s flagship office block snapped up by global investment firm for £36.5m

A landmark Bristol office building that is home to some of the city’s fastest-growing tech, life science and education businesses, has been sold for £36.5m. Programme, pictured, the 174,387 sq ft office building on All Saints Street, has been extensively redesigned and refurbished since being developed in the 1960s....

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Another top award shortlisting for Osborne Clarke’s ‘game-changing’ Bristol office

February 15, 2024
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Another top award shortlisting for Osborne Clarke’s ‘game-changing’ Bristol office

International law firm Osborne Clarke’s state-of-the-art Bristol office, recognised as one of the UK’s most sustainable, is in the running for another prestigious award. Following its shortlisting last year in two categories of the SBID International Design Awards – regarded as among the most coveted accolades for design excellence...

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Employee ownership move by Purplefish PR puts its team in control of its future direction

February 14, 2024
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Employee ownership move by Purplefish PR puts its team in control of its future direction

Bristol-based communications and marketing firm Purplefish has become the city’s first PR agency to be owned by its employees. Director Joanna Randall, who formed the business in 2012, has sold 100% of its shares to a new employee ownership trust (EOT). As part of the transition, a new board...

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New MD for long-established Bristol PR firm as its founder steps into new executive chairman role

February 7, 2024
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New MD for long-established Bristol PR firm as its founder steps into new executive chairman role

Bristol-based Empica, one of the South West’s longest established public relations agencies, has appointed a new managing director. Natalie Birrell, pictured, who has been working with the agency as client services director since 2019 takes up the role from its founder Martin Powell, who moves to the newly-created role...

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