Bristol Business News Travel: Last-minute ski deals, Eddie the Eagle and a cool way to learn ice climbing

December 31, 2019
Bristol Business News Travel: Last-minute ski deals, Eddie the Eagle and a cool way to learn ice climbing

The ski season has started with some impressive snowfalls across Europe and there are some great deals around to make the most of them. Bristol Business News travel editor Anne Gorringe looks at what’s on offer along with the opportunities to start the New Year learning a new winter...

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Barcan+Kirby staff cycle, bake and dress down to net £12,000 for children’s hospital charity

December 31, 2019
Barcan+Kirby staff cycle, bake and dress down to net £12,000 for children’s hospital charity

An epic Land’s End-to-Bristol cycle challenge along with auctions, raffles, dress-down days and a firm-wide bake off helped Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby raise more than £12,000 for its charity of the year. The range of activities meant the firm, which has six offices in and around the city, ended...

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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

December 31, 2019
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Tuesday December 31 AGMs: Leaf Clean, Tetragon Fin Wednesday January 1 Nothing listed Thursday January 2 Economic announcement: PMI manufacturing Friday January 3 Trading announcement: Next Economic announcement: Nationwide house price index  

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Bristol deserves a BAFTA as UK’s best city for filming, says producer behind top TV dramas

December 20, 2019
Bristol deserves a BAFTA as UK’s best city for filming, says producer behind top TV dramas

Bristol is the best place in the UK to film a drama, the executive producer of a major new TV series who spent four months shooting in the city has told its cast and crew. Douglas Rae’s Ecosse Films is behind the six-part drama The Trial of Christine Keeler,...

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Firm launched by ‘pension software geeks’ sells majority stake to arm of BT’s pension fund

December 20, 2019
Firm launched by ‘pension software geeks’ sells majority stake to arm of BT’s pension fund

A majority stake in Bristol-based pensions software firm Procentia has been acquired by the executive arm of the UK’s largest private sector pension schemes. Procentia was launched in 2002 by a group of self-confessed pension software geeks and has grown into a major player in the fast-growing specialist financial...

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Paradigm Norton teams up with UWE to launch academy to train firm’s next leaders

December 20, 2019
Paradigm Norton teams up with UWE to launch academy to train firm’s next leaders

Bristol financial planning firm Paradigm Norton has launched an academy in partnership with UWE to invest in its next generation of leaders Participants from the firm will study modules in self-leadership, personal vision, succession, sustainability and legacy and conflict and confrontation.  With a maximum of eight Paradigm Norton employees...

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Self-made Bristol businessman’s legacy to fund university’s new campus lecture theatres

December 20, 2019
Self-made Bristol businessman’s legacy to fund university’s new campus lecture theatres

£3.5m donation from a trust set up by a successful businessman who left school at 14 is to help the University of Bristol create state-of-the art lecture theatres for future generations of innovators. The Bill Brown 1989 Charitable Trust made the donation to the university ahead of the development...

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Pioneering contactless donation system taps into Bristol businesses’ concern for city’s homeless

December 20, 2019
Pioneering contactless donation system taps into Bristol businesses’ concern for city’s homeless

Dozens of Bristol businesses are backing the UK’s first contactless donation system that supports homeless people, making it the country’s fastest-growing project of its kind. TAP for Bristol now has 20 donation points around the city centre raising £150 a day. The money raised goes towards homelessness prevention services as...

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£5,000 saving from sending eCards at Bevan Brittan is donated to St Peter’s Hospice

December 20, 2019
£5,000 saving from sending eCards at Bevan Brittan is donated to St Peter’s Hospice

Bristol-headquartered law firm Bevan Brittan has donated £5,000 to St Peter’s Hospice, the city charity that cares for adults with life-limiting illnesses. The donation is part of a total of £20,000 the firm is giving nationally to charities this Christmas across its four office locations, which also include Leeds,...

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