Bristol charity Aid Box Community is appealing for storage space as it struggles to cope with a huge increase in demand for its services triggered by a rise in the number of refugees and asylum seekers arriving in the city. Aid Box Community (ABC) has a hub and free...
Work has started on the £12m redevelopment and expansion of Bristol’s highly successful film and TV studio The Bottle Yard as it aims to attract more productions to the city. The work, which will add three new sound stages and is being funded by the West of England Combined...
The Bristol team behind the UK’s first female urinal has raised £250,000 in their first funding round, including investment from the co-founder of online bank Monzo, as they aim to pioneer ‘pee-equality’ for women. The PEEQUAL, invented by University of Bristol graduates Hazel McShane and Amber Probyn, pictured, is...
The Bunch, the rapidly expanding Bristol firm set up in 2016 by students fed up with being taken advantage of by utility companies, is taking its innovative bills payment system to the US in a move to harness the country’s vast market potential. The business, which consolidates all household...
Research projects ranging from using electric buses to transfer passengers to their planes to planting carbon-absorbing flowers and grass are to be explored by Bristol Airport as ways of lowering its emissions. The airport is to fund five projects in partnership with organisations ranging from two leading airlines to...
Communications consultancy Social has made two appointments and two promotions in its Bristol office after a fourth successive year of growth. Tom Jones has joined as a senior account manager and Sam Bessant as a senior graphic designer to its work across public relations, stakeholder engagement and creative design disciplines. ...
BaseKit, the Bristol-based website and e-commerce platform, has received £1m in funding as it looks to broaden its portfolio and exploit the boom in online trading. The award-winning SaaS (software-as-a-service) business, which was set up in 2008, aims to more than triple its turnover to £10m by 2025. A key...
Bristol has been described as “a theatre of opportunity” for TV productions ahead of the first new drama of 2022 filmed entirely in and around the city hitting the small screen this weekend. Six-part psychological thriller Chloe, featuring a cast led by Erin Doherty (The Crown), begins on Sunday. The team...
Innovative businesses based at SETsquared Bristol, the incubator that supports the growth of tech start-ups, attracted investment of £98.8m last year – a 145% increase on 2020’s total. Member companies also created 250 jobs, generated £29m in revenues and achieved best-ever numbers for leadership diversity. More than half of...
Bristol-based customer relationship marketing agency Armadillo has continued to invest in its senior management team by creating the new role of managing director. The promotion of client partner Joanna Penn to the position – along with the arrival of Emma Watson as a new client partner – follows year-on-year revenue growth...
Bristol public relations agency Empica has strengthened its team with the appointment of Kathryn Chatfield as PR assistant. Kathryn, pictured, is a Cardiff University psychology graduate with a Masters’ in International Public Relations and Global Communications Management and is a former pupil of King Edward’s School in Bath. She...
Activity in Bristol’s office market is growing faster than any other major UK city, with three large deals completing this month, rents up 11% on last year and a strong pipeline of inquiries for vacant space. With the city’s economy due to grow by 6.2% this year, property agents...
French animation film maker and distributor Cyber Group Studios has acquired a majority stake in Bristol animators A Productions in a deal that will involve them collaborating on new content for a global audience. Paris-based Cyber Group Studios, best known for its award-winning Gigantosaurus series, pictured, and A Productions...
