More than 100m free meals were redistributed last year by Neighbourly, the pioneering Bristol-based community engagement platform, while it also doubled its number of corporate partners amid the worst cost of living crisis for generations. New corporate partners taken on in 2022 included Pret A Manger, Hampshire Trust Bank...
Soaring energy bills have sparked a 234% increase in inquiries received by Bristol-based solar energy installer from businesses considering on-site power generation. The firm, one of the UK’s oldest companies in the sector, said the increase was mostly driven by largescale energy users such as manufacturers and warehousing, distribution...
Bristol public relations agency Strike Communications is celebrating three years in business by expanding its senior leadership team. Scott Fletcher, pictured, is joining founder and managing director Catherine Frankpitt in the new role of creative director to support the development of the purpose-led business. Catherine launched Strike in early...
The managing partner of architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has become a visiting professor at the School of Architecture and Environment at UWE Bristol. Geoff Rich, pictured, will work with the university to help inspire the next generation of architects, sharing his expertise through masterclasses, lectures, and reviews of student work....
Babbasa, the Bristol social enterprise that works to transform the lives of young people from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds, has appointed six new board members to help drive its vision and mission. The individuals have been selected to assist with specific facets of operating a social enterprise as...
Impact investor Bristol & Bath Regional Capital (BBRC) is to expand its homes division to finance 1,500 quality new homes for key workers across the West of England by 2028. The move, which follows an equity investment in BBRC from London-based specialist impact investor Zamo Capital, will help it...
Bristol media centre and cultural hub Watershed has joined an international training and transformation programme that empowers artists and cultural professionals to take action on the climate and ecological crisis. Run by pioneering not-for-profit organisation arts and culture group Julie’s Bicycle, the Creative Climate Leadership (CCL) programme will give...
National law firm Clarke Willmott, which has one of the largest of its seven offices in Bristol, has made three senior appointments as it looks to build on its most successful year ever. The firm’s 2021/22 revenues rose by 12% to £59.6m on the previous 12 months while it...
Business West is to mark International Women’s Day with an event celebrating the region’s female entrepreneurs and focusing on the importance of promoting gender equity in business. A panel of five inspirational women from the region will discuss a range of topics at the event on 8 March, such...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Mike Dodd, Bristol-based development director of impactful developer Socius, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched: The Banshees of Inisherin. A fantastic, if slightly unusual, black...
Twelve innovative tech start-ups have joined the acclaimed tech incubator SETsquared Bristol to accelerate their growth. The new cohort represents a range of sectors as well as creative uses of technology to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems – from improved access to healthcare and education to...
A group of Bristol investors is backing a firm developing innovative bioplastic food packaging from seaweed in a deal that brings its technology another step closer to everyday use. Sustainable biotech business Kelpi invented the unique compostable material to replace single-use fossil fuel plastics, which take hundreds of years...
More than 100 firms in Bristol and across the West of England have signed up to a regional Good Employment Charter which pledges to pay staff a Real Living Wage and clamp down on the use of zero-hours contracts. Introduced by Metro Mayor Dan Norris as part of a...
