Bristol’s hugely-successful Gromit Unleashed charity arts project came to a spectacular finale last night when the long-awaited auction of the 81 Gromit sculptures netted more than £2.3m. The 5ft-high Gromit sculptures, which have been located around Bristol over the past few months, went under the hammer along with 11,...
Bristol’s reputation as a creative and artistic hub will be strengthened next year when it hosts the Arts Marketing Association’s (AMA) annual conference. Some 600 creative marketers, inspiring thinkers and arts and cultural professionals will attend the three-day event in July at Watershed and Colston Hall to explore ways...
Bristol’s long-awaited arena will create nearly 400 jobs and contribute more than £150m to the region’s economy, mayor George Ferguson has said as he unveiled more details of his for vision to build the much-delayed venue. The 12,000 capacity arena will open on disused land near Temple Meads station...
The benefits of the Patent Box tax incentive, which aims to boost innovation in the UK, will be explained at a seminar hosted by accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson’s Bristol office. Speakers from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will...
Shares in specialist IT and software firm SciSys, which has an office in Bristol, have fallen heavily after it revealed a 19.8% drop in interim pre-tax profits yesterday and warned that its markets remained challenging. The Chippenham-headquartered group, whose blue-chip customers include the Ministry of Defence, European Space Agency and...
A major conference next month will look at how Bristol can harness its innovation and creativity to build on its position as one of the UK’s most economically successful British cities. Bristol’s Bright Future, which takes place on October 15 at Bristol City’s Ashton Gate stadium, will bring together...
Alastair Campbell, the high-profile former Downing Street spokesman and one of the key architects of New Labour, will be guest speaker at this year’s CBI South West annual dinner. Mr Campbell, pictured, best known for his role as former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s press secretary, will address more than...
West business leaders are being given the chance to see behind the scenes of the region’s largest TV and film studio, The Bottle Yard in Bristol. The visit on September 5 is organised by the Institute of Directors (IoD) and Bristol Media and reflects the growing importance of the...
The first businesses have moved into the Engine Shed, Bristol’s new innovation hub which is taking shape in part of Brunel’s original Temple Meads railway station. To co-incide with the arrival of the 16 firms – all members of Bristol University’s SETsquared business incubator – minister for culture, communications...
Creative duo Mark Barton and his daughter Daizie will have a double celebration today when they both graduate from UWE Bristol. Mark will be awarded an MA in Media: Practice and Culture, while Daizie will graduate with a BA Honours degree in Drama. They will receive their degree certificates...
A pilot community scheme launched by a group of Bristol firms to help budding young actors join Bristol Old Vic’s Young Company has awarded its first bursaries. The payments, at the end of the first year of the three-year pilot scheme, have been made to six talented youngsters who...
We thought BrandSoup was alone in having opinions about the advisability or otherwise of government agencies getting “creative” with logos (see our recent blog – Bonfire of the Quango Logos). But following revelations of the US NSA’s acquisitive attitude to everyone’s emails and Facebook postings, this thorny topic is...
Bristol cultural icon DJ Derek is to make his last-ever outdoor performance later this month at the city’s Harbour Festival. A mainstay of the Bristol music scene for decades, the legendary DJ, a former accountant, will headline the music stage in Queen Square on Friday July 26. Derek is...
