Twelve innovative tech start-ups have joined the acclaimed tech incubator SETsquared Bristol to accelerate their growth. The new cohort represents a range of sectors as well as creative uses of technology to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems – from improved access to healthcare and education to...
A group of Bristol investors is backing a firm developing innovative bioplastic food packaging from seaweed in a deal that brings its technology another step closer to everyday use. Sustainable biotech business Kelpi invented the unique compostable material to replace single-use fossil fuel plastics, which take hundreds of years...
More than 100 firms in Bristol and across the West of England have signed up to a regional Good Employment Charter which pledges to pay staff a Real Living Wage and clamp down on the use of zero-hours contracts. Introduced by Metro Mayor Dan Norris as part of a...
The Bristol office of transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has provided its services pro-bono to a city-based charity that works to transform lives and the environment by broadening access to cycling. WBD intellectual property (IP) team partner James Love helped Life Cycle register its brand assets with...
A tech platform set up by a Bristol social enterprise to link community tree-planting groups with businesses that have unused land has secured funding to help it grow into a national operation. Called Project Vana, the platform has been devised by TISCreport, a business set up in in 2016...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT, the leader of its future energy and real estate team and rival Burges Salmon’s corporate responsibility head have been nominated in an awards scheme that focuses on leadership in driving forward the diversity and equality agenda. TLT, which employs round 1,200 people across its...
The High Court has dismissed the legal challenge brought against the Planning Inspectorate’s permission for Bristol Airport’s expansion. The Planning Inspectorate decided last February to allow the airport to increase its annual limit on passengers from 10m to 12m after North Somerset Council rejected the plan, which includes major investment...
Bristol-based engineering design, energy and sustainability consultancy Hydrock has taken over a sensor technology specialist in its third acquisition of the past 12 months. SPLtrack, which was founded in 2013, describes itself as an ideas factory that challenges convention. Its clients include Silverstone, the home of the British Grand...
A commitment to sustainability by transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD), including in its Bristol office, has once again been recognised in a major awards scheme. The Planet Mark Awards recognise organisations and individuals that have gone above and beyond to maximise their impact in three key areas...
Triodos UK, the Bristol-headquartered ethical bank, has helped rewilding charity Heal acquire its first landholding with a £3.75m loan. The funding, which Heal will use to create a nature reserve on 460 acres near Bruton, Somerset, pictured, is Triodos Bank’s first loan to a rewilding project and is believed...
Legal experts from the Bristol head office of national law firm Burges Salmon have worked with a fund set up by the Mayor of London on the financing of a fleet of new zero-emission electric buses. The 30 Wrightbus Electroliner buses will replace diesel vehicles on Transport for London’s...
Workplace technology provider Amba has demonstrated its commitment to being a force for good in the world of work by achieving the prestigious B-Corp certification. The firm, based just outside Bristol at Rudgeway, takes the number of businesses in the area to gain the accreditation to more than 20. ...
Confidence among South West businesses continued to rise in December after a surprise recovery the previous month – with firms ending the year in a rare upbeat mood. The latest monthly Business Barometer from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking reveals firms reported higher confidence in their own business prospects month-on-month, up 15 percentage points at 34%. Taken...
