Forward-thinking Bristol firms that put their staff’s wellbeing front and centre now have more time to enter the South West’s only awards that champion workplace happiness. The deadline for the competition, now in its fourth year, has been extended into next month due to an unprecedented number of entrants. ...
Bristol’s fast-growth businesses can find all the information they need to help them expand in one place following the launch of the city’s first scale-up generator website. The site, which has been created by Bristol’s Engine Shed innovation centre in partnership with the West of England Growth Hub, includes...
The first businesses have signed up to support Bristol Giving Day, a new fundraising event aimed at boosting the coffers of some of the thousands of local charities and good causes across the city. Hosted by Quartet Community Foundation, the independent charity that works across the West of England...
Bristol Energy has teamed up with city-based Thrive Renewables in deal to supply wind power to more than 550 homes over the next year. Bristol Energy, owned by the city council, will buy the renewable electricity from Thrive’s Clayfords wind farm in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, pictured. The single-turbine site will...
Bristol-based ethical bank Triodos is working with an award-winning organic craft beer producer to help fund its new six-figure brewery and bar development. Fast-growing Stroud Brewery, one of only a handful of solely organic brewers in the UK, this week launched a bond offer to raise £300,000 with Triodos,...
Bristol’s target of being carbon neutral by 2050 has come a step closer with the introduction of new electric vehicle (EV) charging points and the conversion of part of the City Council’s fleet to electric. The council is using £2m of grant money from the Office of Low Emission...
Bristol challenger brands Friska, the fast-growing healthy eating café group, and ethical advisory service Waste Source have teamed up to find new ways of reducing commercial refuse and step up its recycling. Friska, a Waste Source customer for three and a half years, has made bottom-line savings of 7%...
Businesses and individuals working in the sustainability sector will be able to get an update on Bristol’s pioneering City Leap project at an event next week. Bristol City Council aims to bring in potential partners from across the world to help the city become carbon neutral by 2050. It...
Bristol’s free street art festival Upfest has a larger area to showcase its artists’ talents when it takes place this weekend thanks to the support of a local developer. Firmstone Consortia One’s backing for the event, the largest of its kind in Europe’s, means it can extend further down Bedminster’s East...
Energy sector experts from Bristol law firm Burges Salmon have advised National Australia Bank (NAB) and Santander UK on the £86m financing of a portfolio of onshore wind projects across England. The Burges Salmon team was led by banking partner Nathan Curtis and provided a wide range of legal...
Daredevil staff at Bristol law firm Meade King are this weekend taking part in a sponsored skydive to raise essential funds for a mental health charity that supports the city’s young people. Solicitor Sana Sadiq and legal secretary Olivia Miles, who both work in the firm’s corporate and commercial...
Long-delayed plans to transform Bristol Temple Meads railway station came a step closer today with a new team appointed to develop a masterplan for it and the wider Temple Quarter. The masterplan will cover a 70-hectare zone around the iconic station, pictured, and includes Temple Island – the site...
A six-figure investment from Bristol Private Equity Club has helped fast-growing women’s fitness brand This Mum Runs step up to the next level. Launched with a single Facebook post in 2014, the trailblazing Bristol-based business is now one of the fastest-growing businesses in the city. With 35,000 members worldwide, a team...
