Source, the delicatessen, café and restaurant in the heart of Bristol’s St Nicholas Market, has been put on the market. Director Joe Wheatcroft and his colleagues said it was time to look for new opportunities. Source, pictured, is now being marketed by leisure property specialists Fleurets, which said demand...
Bristol energy firm OVO’s innovative electric vehicle products, which use smart meters while recharging, have been praised by energy minister Claire Perry. OVO has invested heavily in the technology that enables electric vehicle owners to charge them at off-peak times by using smart meters. They not only save money...
Bristol-based international environmental consultancy Eunomia is leading an EU-wide project to look at how products ranging from toys to cars and chemicals to furniture can be made, transported and disposed of more sustainably. The firm, which has a long history of working with governments and industry across the world...
Forward-thinking Bristol firms that put their staff’s wellbeing front and centre now have more time to enter the South West’s only awards that champion workplace happiness. The deadline for the competition, now in its fourth year, has been extended into next month due to an unprecedented number of entrants. ...
Bristol’s fast-growth businesses can find all the information they need to help them expand in one place following the launch of the city’s first scale-up generator website. The site, which has been created by Bristol’s Engine Shed innovation centre in partnership with the West of England Growth Hub, includes...
The first businesses have signed up to support Bristol Giving Day, a new fundraising event aimed at boosting the coffers of some of the thousands of local charities and good causes across the city. Hosted by Quartet Community Foundation, the independent charity that works across the West of England...
Bristol Energy has teamed up with city-based Thrive Renewables in deal to supply wind power to more than 550 homes over the next year. Bristol Energy, owned by the city council, will buy the renewable electricity from Thrive’s Clayfords wind farm in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, pictured. The single-turbine site will...
Bristol-based ethical bank Triodos is working with an award-winning organic craft beer producer to help fund its new six-figure brewery and bar development. Fast-growing Stroud Brewery, one of only a handful of solely organic brewers in the UK, this week launched a bond offer to raise £300,000 with Triodos,...
Bristol’s target of being carbon neutral by 2050 has come a step closer with the introduction of new electric vehicle (EV) charging points and the conversion of part of the City Council’s fleet to electric. The council is using £2m of grant money from the Office of Low Emission...
Bristol challenger brands Friska, the fast-growing healthy eating café group, and ethical advisory service Waste Source have teamed up to find new ways of reducing commercial refuse and step up its recycling. Friska, a Waste Source customer for three and a half years, has made bottom-line savings of 7%...
Businesses and individuals working in the sustainability sector will be able to get an update on Bristol’s pioneering City Leap project at an event next week. Bristol City Council aims to bring in potential partners from across the world to help the city become carbon neutral by 2050. It...
Bristol’s free street art festival Upfest has a larger area to showcase its artists’ talents when it takes place this weekend thanks to the support of a local developer. Firmstone Consortia One’s backing for the event, the largest of its kind in Europe’s, means it can extend further down Bedminster’s East...
Energy sector experts from Bristol law firm Burges Salmon have advised National Australia Bank (NAB) and Santander UK on the £86m financing of a portfolio of onshore wind projects across England. The Burges Salmon team was led by banking partner Nathan Curtis and provided a wide range of legal...
