£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...
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...
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,...
Low-cost airline easyJet is to launch another route from Bristol as it continues to build its network and strengthen its standing as the airport’s dominate carrier. The link to Antalya in Turkey will be the airline’s 73rd destination from Bristol. Flights will operate three times a week – on...
Bristol-headquartered environmental consultancy Eunomia Research & Consulting is celebrating nearly doubling its revenue and staffing over the past five years. The 94% growth rate has made Eunomia, which was founded by chairman Dominic Hogg in 2001, one of the world’s leading environmental consultancies with 105 employees across three continents...
Vanessa Moon, the founder and managing director of Bristol-based Moon Executive Search, has started her role as Master of Guild of Guardians. The Guild, a registered charity which aims to improve the quality of civic life in Bristol, has a membership that includes a representative cross section of businesses,...
Poku Osei, the founder of Babbasa, the innovative organisation seeking to tackle high rates of youth unemployment in inner-city Bristol, has been named as Person of the Year in a prestigious awards scheme. Poku, who is Babbasa’s CEO, set up the non-profit organisation in 2013 with the aim of...
One of the UK’s oldest family-run regional breweries called on Bristol-based corporate finance experts to help it with its latest acquisition – despite being based 135 miles away. Stockport-based Robinsons, a 181-year-old, sixth-generation family business, turned to the Bristol corporate finance team of national accountancy group Smith & Williamson to work on...
Work to transform a Victorian villa back to its original residential with six luxury apartments is due to start next month following the project receiving planning consent. 12 Clifton Park, pictured, was built as a single dwelling in 1850 but adapted soon after for Badminton School. At the end...
