Bristol-based developer Firmstone Consortia One has revealed plans to open a cinema as part of its ambitious upgrade of an unloved South Bristol shopping mall. The firm has appointed independent cinema group Scott Cinemas – which owns the Henleaze Orpheus cinema in Bristol – to run the three-screen venue...
Bristol-based consultancy and tech company Techmodal has relaunched its Growth Accelerator Programme to invest and develop innovative ideas in the city’s start-up community. The programme encourages individuals and pre and early-stage start-ups with an interest in tapping into the defence industry to pitch their ideas with a view to...
A major outdoor film set is under construction at Bristol’s Bottle Yard studios for its latest high-end TV drama – the upcoming adaptation of Jane Austen’s final incomplete novel Sanditon. A 10-week build process is underway following planning approval of an application to Bristol City Council by Red Planet...
Bristol Wood Recycling Project is celebrating rapid success in a fundraising exercise to buy its premises and secure its long-term future through a bond offer. The offer, staged on Bristol-based ethical bank Triodos’ crowdfunding platform, netted £430,000 in just over a fortnight from its public launch, with just over...
The region’s most ethical organisations will be celebrated next month when the South West Fair Trade Business Awards are staged for the seventh year. Tickets are selling fast for the ceremony on March 8, which will be hosted by Countdown presenter Nick Hewer and takes place in Bristol’s magnificent...
Bristol businesses WSSI and Moxie & Mettle are supporting an annual boxing dinner in the city this weekend that each year raises thousands of pounds for local charities. Filton-based WSSI, which supplies customised racking, shelving and storage for offices and warehouses, has agreed to be headline sponsor for this...
Bristol’s tourism industry emerged triumphant again last week as venues and businesses from the city went head-to-head against rivals from across the whole of the region in the coveted South West Tourism Awards. Brunel’s SS Great Britain scooped two awards – a joint gold award for Tourism Innovation –...
Bristol is to become a ‘living laboratory’ by harnessing the power of the city’s already strong cross-sector collaboration to speed up innovations in areas such as transport and infrastructure. It is to become home to the UKCRIC Bristol Collaboratory, which will establish Bristol as a testbed for new ideas. ...
Severn Project, Bristol’s pioneering fresh produce grower, has been placed into liquidation after experiencing financial difficulties. The award-winning Community Interest Company (CIC) produced high-quality salad leaves and herbs at an urban farm in Whitchurch, pictured, for restaurants and catering firms across the city. The company also grew hemp, a marijuana derivative...
Two former shipping containers have been transformed into homes for rough sleepers by staff in the Bristol office of real estate services company Colliers International. The donated metal containers have been converted into modern dwellings with a lounge/kitchen, fully fitted bathroom and separate bedroom. Each will be used by...
A major national travel and tourism industry conference is to be held in Bristol next year – boosting to the city’s growing reputation as prime visitor destination. Bristol 2020 will be staged by UKinbound, a leading travel association that represents nearly 400 tourism businesses across the UK. Expected to...
The Arcade, the historic covered shopping mall in Bristol’s Broadmead, is bucking the gloom in the retail sector by being fully let for the first time in nearly two decades. Occupiers of the 25 store units are predominantly independent and niche operators, continuing in the same vein as generations...
More than 300 guests gathered at Bristol’s Museum & Art Gallery this week for as a private view of a unique exhibition of work by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. Accountancy, tax and investment management firm Smith & Williamson, which has an office in Bristol, is one of the...
