One of Bristol’s highest-profile tech entrepreneurs and a champion for international trade in the city are among individuals who received awards in the Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours list. Dr Zara Nanu, CEO and co-founder of Gapsquare, was awarded an MBE for services to tackle global workplace inequalities and promoting...
How investors can help create positive change and the role that the food and drinks industry plays in shaping public health will be among the topics explored next week when Bristol-based green investment firm Rathbone Greenbank stages its 25th Annual Investor Day. Chaired by Baroness Rosie Boycott, a crossbench peer...
Business leaders are urging the government to continue to invest in the West of England amid signals its ‘levelling-up’ agenda is switching spending to other areas of the country as the econony falters. The plea has come from Business West, the organisation that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and...
Bristol independent accountancy practice Corrigan has unveiled a new look as it prepares for a new growth phase. Having been launched by partner Ed Corrigan in 2009 with just two people, it today employs 26 staff. It continued to grow organically during the pandemic and is now focused on...
Bristol brand and creative agency Mr B & Friends has embarked on an ambitious five-year growth plan, including opening bases in London, the US and South East Asia, while also making a key senior appointment. Ellie Wilson has joined the firm as managing partner, bringing expertise in managing high-performance...
With the Big Tent Ideas Festival taking place in Bristol tomorrow – when politicians, campaign groups and businesses will debate key issues such as net zero, the drive for better public services and achieving a more equitable society – Mayor Marvin Rees here outlines why the city is ideally...
Gloucestershire Cricket has appointed Sally Cordwell, CEO of Bristol’s aerospace museum, as one of three new members of its non-executive board. Sally, along with Dr Adeela Shafi MBE and Asif Rehmanwala, have been taken on to serve three-year terms following what the club, which is based at the Seat...
Privatising Channel 4 could threaten job creation in its Bristol hub while also jeopardising its acclaimed work on diversity and inclusion in the city. The stark warning was delivered to Metro Mayor Dan Norris this week when he visited the hub, which opened in 2019 and now employs 20...
Rapid-growth Bristol creative agency Diva, which works with many of the world’s largest videogame brands, has brought in city tech champion Nick Sturge MBE to chair its new-look board. Nick, pictured, best known as the founding director of Bristol’s pioneering Engine Shed innovation hub, will help Diva expand its...
Bristol community engagement and investment platform Neighbourly is moving to a new base in the city’s Engine Shed innovation hub following another successful funding round that will further accelerate its growth. Now employing 80 people, Neighbourly was set up in 2014 at Engine Shed as part of its SETsquared...
Concert venue Bristol Beacon has formed a partnership with city-based TV production company Plimsoll Productions to highlight its work and help it reach a wider audience. The two, which are among Bristol’s largest creative organisations, said the collaboration would reflect their shared values around sustainability, diversity and creativity. Plimsoll,...
Bristol-based kitchen firm HUSK has quadrupled the size of its workshop space by expanding into a new site. The 9,500 sq ft unit off the Feeder Road in St Phillips will enable the firm to meet growing demand from homeowners keen to find cost-effective and sustainable ways to update...
Bristol’s biggest music event, Love Saves The Day, is to show that partying and caring for the planet can go hand-in-hand – including encouraging festival goers to think about waste, food consumption, water usage and their day-to-day choices. Taking place on the two Queen’s Platinum Jubilee bank holidays next Thursday...
