A series of challenges around Bristol city centre, including making masks out of household material, raised nearly £3,500 for Bristol-based anti-modern slavery charity Unseen during an event organised by the city office of national law firm Clarke Willmott. Fourteen teams from a range of Bristol firms took part in...
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 Chris Holland, managing director of Waste Source, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Social Network. Book you read? I’m not...
A former industrial building in Bedminster ‘re-imagined’ as an artist-led contemporary art gallery officially opens next Friday. Kosar Contemporary on Malago Road is the largest independent art space in Bedminster and has been established in a 6,000 sq ft former light industrial factory by visual artist Zarabéa Esfendiar Kayani...
Bristol’s pioneering Watershed cinema and media centre has revealed ambitious expansion plans that would add four new floors above the existing building and create workspace for more than 100 creative entrepreneurs. Under the scheme, pictured, the Harbourside building will increase in size by nearly half from 4,400 sq m...
Fast-growing Bristol energy firm OVO is to take on the 290,000 customers of Scottish rival Spark Energy, which has gone out of business. OVO has also acquired Spark’s operating company – with more than 300 staff based mainly at Selkirk in the Scottish Borders – and will retain the...
Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby has introduced mental health first aid training as part of a commitment to put it on an equal footing to the physical wellbeing of its staff. Twelve individuals at the firm are undertaking a mental health champion course to develop an understanding of common mental...
Unemployed young people across the South West will get more help into work, training or education, thanks to the generosity of business leaders and philanthropists who raised an amazing £150,000 for The Prince’s Trust in just one night. The charity’s annual Red Dinner in Bristol is its biggest regional...
The property and construction industry needs to wake up and embrace change if it is to move with the times and attract the right talent, a recent Women in Property South West event was told. Many firms in the sector accepted that change is needed but were unsure what...
West of England businesses with ambitious growth plans will be able to get grant funding and relevant, high-quality support and training under a new programme launched by UWE Bristol, NatWest and regional law firm Foot Anstey. S4G (Scale Up 4 Growth) is open to businesses in any sector that...
Businesses and organisations from across Bristol have joined together to launch the city’s first collective agreement to promote the values of equality, diversity and inclusion. The Bristol Equality Charter was launched at M Shed on Monday with original signatories and supporting organisations gathered to show their commitment to promoting...
By Ollie James, corporate sustainability expert and business development director at Bristol marketing communications agency Proctor + Stevenson If you’re looking for something more confusing to solve than a Rubik’s cube, just look at the kerfuffle surrounding the recent Christmas advert by UK frozen foods supermarket Iceland. The tear-jerking...
The ‘staff-first’ policy at Bristol-based ethical waste management company Waste Source has paid off with it achieving the prestigious Investors in People (IIP) Accreditation. Waste Source, which has 12 staff, was launched in 2010 to make waste disposal a simpler, cheaper and more effective process for clients. It has...
The West of England’s largest business organisation has urged “calm compromise” from politicians over Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan to avoid what it said would be the “tremendously damaging” impact of the UK crashing out of the EU with no deal. Business West – which runs Bristol Chamber...
