Triodos, the European sustainable bank with its UK headquarters in Bristol, has joined a Hollywood actor, a Welsh rugby legend and the National Poet of Wales in backing a community wind farm project near Swansea. The bank has made a 15-year, £5.25m investment in the Awel y Gwrhyd wind...
Bristol charity FRANK Water has become the UK’s first bottled water company to stop selling single-use plastic bottles and switch to 100% environmentally sustainable alternatives – even though it expects it to reduce its income. To replace its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, the social enterprise has launched a #PledgeToRefill campaign, which...
Pioneering Bristol firms Ziylo and NuNano have become the first tenants to take up residence at the city’s newly launched Unit DX scientific innovation centre. The companies were both founded at the University of Bristol and members of SETsquared Bristol – the world-class incubator based at nearby Engine Shed....
Bristol has so far shrugged off the impact of Brexit and continued to attract investment from overseas firms, according to new research. The city secured nine projects last year, the same number as in 2015, but across the wider South West they fell by a quarter from 37 to 28. Experts...
Diversity in the West of England’s burgeoning tech sector will come under the spotlight at a major event next month. Called DIVERSITY? and taking place on Saturday June 24 at Bristol’s Watershed media centre, it will bring together a wide range of people from across the region who are...
The Bristol office of investment group BGF and a team of advisors from the city have put together £3m funding package for Prezola, the fast-growing Bath-based online wedding gift list firm. Prezola will use the funding from BGF, the UK’s most active investor in small and mid-sized companies, to...
More than 150 employees from regional law firm Foot Anstey went the extra mile for charity and raised more than £14,000 by walking between its five South West offices. The 208-mile trek – which started in Truro and ended in Bristol – smashed their fundraising target by 40%. It...
Real estate advisory firm GVA has promoted Gordon Isgrove to regional senior director in its Bristol office, replacing Jo Davis following her promotion to a national role. Gordon, pictured, who as senior director leads GVA’s land and development team in Bristol and Cardiff, has 20 years’ experience in the...
Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby marked Dementia Awareness Week last week by taking the number of ‘dementia friends’ it has created in the city to an incredible 245. The milestone was reached when the firm’s dementia friends champion, senior associate Anna Molter, visited Bromley Heath Junior School to hold information...
Bristol’s only adult hospice care provider, St Peter’s Hospice, is appealing for a helpful landlord to lend it some warehouse space ahead of it opening a large shop in the city. The charity, which has 50 shops in the area, is opening the 5,000 sq ft furniture and electrical...
Business journalist-turned-PR consultant Paul Mullins will be teaching aspiring entrepreneurs and established firms in Bristol how to secure free media publicity at a workshop organised by BRAVE Enterprise. Paul, pictured, the founder of Clutton-based PR and digital content agency Sandusky Media Consultants and former business editor of the Bath...
Monday 22 May Interim: Cerillion Final: McKay Securities AGMs: Brady, Cloudcall, Ensco, Gamma Communications, Integrated Diagnostics, Johnston Press, Restore, StatPro EGMs: BNN Technology, Echo Energy, Glanbia Tuesday 23 May Interims: easyHotel, Greencore, Paragon Group of Companies, Premier Veterinary Group, Renew Holdings, Shaftesbury, Topps Tiles, UDG Healthcare Finals: 1Spatial, Assura,...
The redevelopment of one of Bristol’s long-overlooked inner city areas is gather pace after the sale of a high-profile site for £3.6m. The derelict site on the corner of Dean Street and Wilder Street, just off Portland Square, has planning permission for 246 student bedrooms. Agents Hartnell Taylor Cook...
