Bristol businesses are being asked for their views on the changing work patterns of their employees to help gauge post-Covid transport needs. Independent research has been commissioned by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), which includes Bristol City Council, into the ways firms across the region plan to...
The Institute of Directors (IoD) is recruiting a new chair to lead its South West region as the role’s current holder Muir Macdonald comes to the end of his three-year term this autumn. The successful candidate will act as the voice for regional directors, working alongside a dedicated team at...
Bristol Technology Festival returns for its third edition later this year with the city hosting more than 50 events with themes spanning the breadth and depth of its growing tech and digital sector. The current plans are to hold the events in a hybrid model with a selection of...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has secured a licence for Glastonbury Festivals’ organisers which allows them to stage a 50,000-capacity show in September after the main festival was cancelled for a second year. The final Equinox licence contains all of the organisers’ requests, including noise provisions that will allow visitors...
The innovative Bristol tech firm behind the Limber app that links hospitality venues with staff seeking flexible shifts has amended it to allow workers to increase their hourly rate as demand soars. The feature has been introduced as bars and restaurants struggle to fill vacancies as they reopen from...
Investment by foreign businesses into the South West rose last year despite the pandemic in contrast to a fall for the UK as a whole. According to a new report by accountancy group EY, the South West achieved a 6.7% increase in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects in 2020...
West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris is calling on employers to help increase the number of apprenticeships in the region. With an estimated £4m to £8m of unused Apprenticeship Levy funds returned to the Treasury each year, Mayor Norris is calling for apprentice levy-paying employers to give their unused funds to a new...
Two sewage and food waste-powered trucks bought by utility group Wessex Water will hit Bristol’s roads this summer, ushering in a transport revolution that could potentially slash greenhouse gas emissions and improve the city’s air quality. The vehicles, pictured, which follow in the tyre tracks of the firm’s pioneering ‘poo...
Payaca, a Bristol software business revolutionising the way home improvement firms manage their workloads, has clinched £400,000 in funding, enabling it to create seven jobs over the next six months. The firm has developed job management software that is successfully being used by more than 260 businesses to manage everything from creating interactive proposals with multiple payment options through to integrations...
Boxpark, the trendy London street food outlet, has selected Bristol for its first venture outside the capital, with a scheme that will regenerate the city’s last remaining undeveloped Harbourside buildings. Called BoxHall, it will open next year in the O&M Sheds on Welsh Back, transforming buildings that at one...
Bristol’s Old Vic theatre has appointed the Mayor of London’s Ambassador for Culture Bernard Donoghue as the new chair of its board of trustees, with Black South West Network director Sado Jirde as vice-chair. They take over this month from out-going chair Dame Liz Forgan, who is to step down from...
The region’s largest business group has urged the Prime Minister to help create a more sustainable future for business at this weekend’s G7 summit in Cornwall. The British Chambers of Commerce South West (BCCSW) – which includes Bristol Chamber of Commerce parent group Business West – has written to...
The BBC has confirmed it is to relocate a large part of its Bristol operation from Whiteladies Road in Clifton to a modern city centre office building. Staff from BBC Studios, which includes its globally renown Natural History Unit, will move to Bridgewater House, pictured, part of the Finzels...
