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Give youth a chance. Case study 2: Ryan Kerslake

August 8, 2014
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Give youth a chance. Case study 2: Ryan Kerslake

Ryan Kerslake struggled to find a job despite a degree from Plymouth University in metalwork and glass art. After several months of being unemployed, Ryan, now 23, decided to move to Portugal to try and find a job there, but he underestimated the language barrier and had to return...

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Give youth a chance. Case study 1: Josh Small

August 8, 2014
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Give youth a chance. Case study 1: Josh Small

Josh Small couldn’t wait to leave school. By the time he’d reached his final exams he’d got into the wrong crowd and was continuously getting into trouble with teachers. “I didn’t enjoy school and, as a result, I didn’t get the grades that I needed to progress onto college,”...

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Give youth a chance plea to Bristol firms as skills shortages start to hit home

August 8, 2014
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Give youth a chance plea to Bristol firms as skills shortages start to hit home

Bristol firms are facing a looming skills crisis – yet there are thousands of young people desperate to work, new research warned this week The study by the Prince’s Trust and HSBC reveals that 69% of businesses across the South West believe a significant skills crisis will hit their...

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Strong bounce back triggers biggest city centre office deals in Bristol since before recession

August 8, 2014
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Strong bounce back triggers biggest city centre office deals in Bristol since before recession

Bristol’s city centre office market is poised for some of its largest deals for more than six years with four major requirements totalling more than 200,000 sq ft on the cards. Ovo Energy, the rapidly-expanding Bristol-based energy supplier and emerging challenger to the big utility firms, is about to...

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Lights, camera, innovation: Smartphone promo film puts Bristol’s science park in the frame

August 8, 2014
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Lights, camera, innovation: Smartphone promo film puts Bristol’s science park in the frame

Bristol & Bath Science Park, with its state-of-the-art innovation centre, has again been used as the setting for a film promoting advanced technology. It stars in a promotional film for the new Samsung Galaxy S5, which tells the story of a designer who uses the smartphone across Bristol in...

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Move over Gromit. Shaun the Sheep gets ready for his Bristol charity sculpture trail

August 8, 2014
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Move over Gromit. Shaun the Sheep gets ready for his Bristol charity sculpture trail

From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com First it was the gorillas, then Gromits. Now plans to place dozens of Shaun the Sheep sculptures around Bristol in a new arts trail were confirmed today. More than 100 sculptures of Bristol animator Aardman’s woolly Claymation character, will appear in London and Bristol next...

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Multi-million pound private sector support pledged for Bristol’s year as European Green Capital

August 8, 2014
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Multi-million pound private sector support pledged for Bristol’s year as European Green Capital

Transport operator FirstGroup and accountants KPMG have signed multi-million pound agreements to support Bristol’s year as European Green Capital in what was today described as among the largest private-sector sponsorships in the city’s history. The deals, a mixture of financial and value-in-kind support, make up the strongest private-sector commitment...

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Another year of growth for Bishop Fleming lifts it further up national accountancy league table

August 6, 2014
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Another year of growth for Bishop Fleming lifts it further up national accountancy league table

West-based accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has a major office in Bristol, has achieved another year of expansion with fee income up by more than 3% to almost £17m. The increase follows two years in which Accountancy Age magazine ranked Bishop Fleming as Britain’s fastest-growing accountants. As a result...

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Kier lands £100m five-year Bristol Water network maintenance contract

August 6, 2014
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Kier lands £100m five-year Bristol Water network maintenance contract

Bristol Water has awarded its £20m-a-year network maintenance services programme contract to national building and civil engineering group Kier. The contract, which starts on October 1, is for five years with a potential five-year extension. Works include repairs and maintenance, metering, new connections, developer mains, trunk mains support and...

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Market recovery sparks hat-trick of deals for Smith & Williamson’s Bristol corporate finance team

August 6, 2014
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Market recovery sparks hat-trick of deals for Smith & Williamson’s Bristol corporate finance team

Accountancy firm Smith & Williamson’s Bristol-based corporate finance team has completed three significant national and international deals worth a combined £100m-plus as market activity continues to recover. The firm said the trio of transactions reflected a growing appetite from trade and private equity buyers for high-quality businesses. Smith &...

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Queen Sq move for fast-growing Sanderson Weatherall two years after opening in Bristol

August 5, 2014
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Queen Sq move for fast-growing Sanderson Weatherall two years after opening in Bristol

National commercial property specialist firm Sanderson Weatherall has relocated its Bristol following substantial growth since it arrived in the city two years ago. The team, which has grown from two to 13 over two years, has moved into a 2,000 sq ft office in Queen Square from its former...

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LSH targeting South West’s public sector for growth following strategic appointment in Bristol

August 5, 2014
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LSH targeting South West’s public sector for growth following strategic appointment in Bristol

Commercial property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) is expecting further growth for its Bristol-based public sector division following the appointment of Jaime Blakeley-Glover as regional director. Jaime, pictured, who joined LSH in 2011, takes on the role alongside his current national position of consultancy director within public sector services....

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Burges Salmon team lead on the Co-op’s £249m farm disposal to Wellcome Trust

August 4, 2014
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Burges Salmon team lead on the Co-op’s £249m farm disposal to Wellcome Trust

Bristol law firm Burges Salmon has advised the troubled Co-operative Group on the £249m sale of its farms to health charity the Wellcome Trust, which was announced this week. The high-profile transaction involved a strong team from Burges Salmon led by corporate partner Nick Graves and real estate partner...

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