Unemployed and disadvantaged young people from across the West of England are to benefit from £160,000 raised by business leaders at a dinner for The Prince’s Trust staged in Bristol last week. More than 460 business people and other high-profile guests from across the region attended the annual Red...
Bristol law firm Gregg Latchams has merged with London-based Jacobs Allen Hammond in a move that will extend its reach into the capital’s legal market. The firms said the move reflected their shared ethos and values while also supporting Gregg Latchams’ growth strategy. Jacobs Allen Hammond’s office in Marylebone...
National law firm Bond Dickinson, which has a large office in Bristol, has been recognised as one of Europe’s most innovative, gaining 14th place in a prestigious top 50 table. The firm was praised in three categories – collaboration, managing talent and rule of law – in the Financial Times...
Bristol businesses can make sure they are up to date on the latest trends in digital next week at a series of free events. Digital Bristol Week takes place in venues across the city over five days with digital art installations and film screenings, business seminars, exhibitions and workshops...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has its largest office in Bristol, is celebrating leaping up the accounting industry’s most prestigious league table. The firm has broken into the top 30 of leading industry magazine Accountancy Age’s rankings for the first time. It achieved a 12% annual turnover increase...
The largest ever gathering of tech companies in the West of England takes place on Tuesday when more than 500 local, national and global delegates assemble for Venturefest Bristol and Bath 2017. The event will put the spotlight on innovative approaches to the way we will live, move around...
Bristol’s former General Hospital is to go head to head with 11 other conservation projects from across the UK in the final of a major national property award scheme. The project by Essex-based specialist developer City & Country, pictured, topped the Building Conservation category at the 2017 RICS Awards,...
Bath’s small business owners will be hardest hit by new tax regulations on dividends, one of the region’s largest accountancy firm is warning. Bishop Fleming, which delivers accounting, tax, corporate restructuring and advisory services to businesses and private wealth advice to individuals, says a key change to the taxation...
The Legal 500, the respected annual guide to the UK’s legal firms and individuals, has named dozens of Bristol lawyers on its list of the region’s ‘leading individuals’. Bristol lawyers once again make up the vast majority – and, for the first time, up-and-coming lawyers have been included alongside those...
A skills revolution is needed in the West of England to solve the recruitment problem now hitting many of the region’s firms, Metro Mayor Tim Bowles has been told. The message was delivered to him by the head of national business support service GetSet for Growth, who said ‘hard-to-fill’...
Bristol-based creative and tech communications consultancy Purplefish has won five new clients and appointed a new account executive in the run up to its fifth birthday. The agency, set up by experienced Bristol PR figure Joanna Randall in 2012, has signed new contracts with clients including recipe sharing platform...
Ideas have always flowed in and out of Bristol, taking on a new life here. Through our airports and harbour; through our world-class universities and businesses; and through our unique arts and cultural scene. Bristol is a place where ideas flourish. From Clifton Suspension Bridge and Banksy to Massive...
TEDxBristol – the UK’s largest event of its kind – has launched a Community Partnership Programme offering free tickets to groups and individuals who would otherwise be unable to attend. The programme aims to build bridges between the game-changing ideas of TEDxBristol and communities around the city who may...
