Bristol-based power firm National Grid Electricity Distribution has become the first key partner for charity campaign to raise vital funds for city’s vital parks and green spaces. Your Park Bristol & Bath launched the Reimagining Parks scheme in May following a report that revealed a third of the population across...
Bristol-headquartered cancer charity Penny Brohn UK has opened its meeting rooms and gardens on the city’s outskirt to businesses looking to stage wellbeing events for their staff. Organisations can now hire the extensive indoor and outdoor facilities at Ham Green House, near Pill, pictured, for activities while at the...
Hundreds of hours of volunteer work have been carried out by members of Bristol Junior Chamber this summer in a drive to support local charities. The BJC Big Help Out, introduced this year by the Chamber’s president Emma Carter, helped link up the organisation’s membership of young professionals with...
Businesses are being invited to support a gala dinner in Bristol to showcase the positive impact of refugees and migrants on the city and the wider UK – with a keynote speech by Olympic gold medallist Sir Mo Farah. ‘The Welcome Party’ will celebrate individual success stories of refugees...
Bristol-based SLX, one of the UK’s leading providers of technology for live events, culture and sports, is to play a lead role in staging the 2024 Olympics, which officially opens in Paris this evening. As the official supporter for broadcast lighting and rigging, the firm will work at 29...
A Bristol Brazilian Jiu Jitsu association operating two clubs in the city has received £390,000 from impact investor BBRC (Bristol & Bath Regional Capital) to expand its community-focussed operations. Roger Gracie Bristol already generates social impact with initiatives that bring people in personal crisis ‘onto the mats’ through interventions,...
Bristol Airport is celebrating the success of its efforts to get more passengers and staff to use its bus links – with the number soaring past 100,000 in a month for the first time. Last month nearly 110,000 people travelled on the A1 Airport Flyer, which links the airport...
More than £11m has been lent to start-up firms across the South West ranging from a sewing café to a mobile cocktail bar over the past year under a programme run by the British Business Bank. Since its launch in 2012, the Start Up Loans scheme has supported more than 9,000...
Regional construction group Beard has appointed its first social value manager – a role it has set up to ensure its projects deliver wider social, economic and environmental benefits. Paula Baleson, pictured, takes up the post after two years as Beard’s communications manager based in its Bristol office. She...
Funding secured from growth finance group BGF’s Bristol team is powering major international expansion at a UK-based clean-energy engineering company. Severn Drives & Energy (SDE), which BGF supported last year with a ‘significant’ investment, has set up a manufacturing plant in the US to meet rising customer demand for...
Waste management vehicles operated by Grundon on Bristol’s roads will soon boast some of the industry’s most-advanced safety features following a £750,000 investment by the company. The firm, which opened its St Philips depot four years ago, is equipping all its 300-plus strong commercial fleet with connected operations platform over...
Cutting-edge hydraulic systems developed in Bristol that could bring about a step change in sustainable aviation are to be showcased alongside the world’s leading aerospace technology next week. Domin, the firm behind the ground-breaking systems, is exhibiting at the Farnborough International Airshow, the global gathering of the leading aerospace...
A Bristol firm aiming to revolutionise the way crops are grown without increasing greenhouse gases has been named South West and Wales Innovator in a contest to find the UK’s most exciting tech businesses. Glaia, which was founded in 2019 by two former University of Bristol scientists, is developing...
