Bristol businesses are being urged to step up and provide emergency funding to help Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of their country. Charity People against Poverty, which works both internationally and in the UK to alleviate poverty and suffering, is aiming to raise £20,000 within the next seven days...
Bristol PR and communications agency Purplefish has been awarded B Corporation status, joining a growing number of Bristol firms accredited by the international movement that promotes business as a force for good. The consultancy, which this month celebrates its 10th anniversary, started on its B Corporation journey two years ago. ...
Members of the South West region of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) have voted for FareShare South West to be its charity of the year for 2022-2023. FareShare, which helps to tackle food poverty across the region by redistributing surplus food, took the top spot in a...
Businesses operating in Bristol’s night-time economy are to take part in a high-profile campaign of zero tolerance of harassment of women, including expert training for their staff. The initiative, the largest of its kind in the city, follows shocking results from a recent survey that revealed 100% of women...
Bristol businesses are being invited to support a transformational skills programme led by UWE that will create opportunities in the green economy for young people from the city. Green Skills for Jobs and Entrepreneurship has been launched against a backdrop of economic recovery following the Covid pandemic and the demand...
International law firm Osborne Clarke has awarded a multi million-pound contract to workplace design-and-build consultancy Interaction to design its new flagship Bristol office. Bath-based Interaction, which has been behind a number of major office projects in Bristol in recent years, describes itself as on a mission to banish boring...
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 Oliver Jones, head of sales & marketing at National Friendly, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? With three daughters, that has to be Sing...
Fast-growing eCommerce fulfilment company Huboo is to become the main shirt sponsor for all five of Bristol Sport’s professional teams, including Bristol City and Bristol Bears, in a UK first for a sporting group. The ground-breaking deal, which takes effect from the start of the 2022/23 season, will make...
Fusion Processing, the Bristol tech firm developing cutting-edge automated drive systems, has appointed Nick Sturge, the former director of the city’s pioneering Engine Shed innovation hub, as its non-executive chairman. Fusion Processing’s technology is being used in a number of leading autonomous vehicle trials, including driverless buses, while its...
The Bristol firm behind the world’s first medically approved 3D-printed bionic arm has demonstrated its products to the UK’s science minister on his visit to the city’s science and tech innovation cluster. Open Bionics showed George Freeman the production space where its life-changing Hero Arm for amputees is made...
A new ‘cultural plan’ to boost a sector that contributes just under £2bn to the West of England’s economy a year by putting it on the map for national and international success has been unveiled. The prospectus showcases the region’s creative individuals – including its world-beating artists and games designers...
Bristol-based animation production studio A Productions has been shortlisted in a national award scheme for its work on the first Sesame Street animated special for HBO Max. Sesame Workshop’s The Monster at the End of This Story has been nominated in the Best Longform category in the British Animation Awards (BAAs),...
The first major event staged by the Western Gateway economic partnership takes place next month to bring together key figures from business, academia and local and national government on both sides of the Severn to explore the potential of the cross–border powerhouse. Called Green Growth within the Western Gateway, the day-long...
