Bristol & Bath Science Park has appointed Tom Beasley to lead day-to-day operations of its Forum and Innovation Centre. Tom, pictured, is the former director of projects and strategic development at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College, where he led the team responsible for securing £26.5m funding to support development...
Facilities management firm Almeda has officially opened its first client restaurant as it seeks to reinvigorate the traditional staff canteen at businesses across the region. The launch of the restaurant at Hanson UK’s shared service and IT centre in Chipping Sodbury, was the culmination of months of hard work...
Volunteers are being sought from Bristol businesses to support schools careers and enterprise strategies across the West of England. The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is taking part in the first wave of a new government-led national programme to unlock the potential of young people aged between...
Estate agency and property group Andrews has paid out a record £633,000 in dividends to the three charitable trusts that own it. The trusts will use the payments to fund a range of community projects, with a number aimed at young people. The Keynsham-based group, which has branches stretching...
Building contractor Dribuild has pledged to raise £50,000 for its chosen charity of the year, Above & Beyond, which raises funds for Bristol’s city centre hospitals. Keynsham-based Dribuild, which works on blue-chip construction, shop-fitting, refurbishment and maintenance projects across the UK, recently formed a partnership with the charity to...
Bristol-based construction and refurbishment specialist Integral Build has appointed Lester Parry as senior estimator in response to a growing contract portfolio. Lester, pictured, will take responsibility for all new tenders, working closely with the commercial manager and operations manager. He has more than 30 years’ experience and joins Integral Build from...
By Tim Stringer, director, Integral Build. As a board member of Bristol Learning City, I was pleased with the Chancellor’s focus on young people in last week’s Budget and the need to concentrate on the skills required for us to remain competitive on a global platform. As long as we can find enough teachers to fulfil the ambition...
Bristol’s go-ahead firms are being encouraged to follow in the tracks of Aztec West-based skateboard distributor Shiner and show the benefits of creating a great workplace culture. Shiner collected the top prize in last year’s inaugural Happiest Workplace competition, attributing its success to being “laid back with no egos”....
Bristol guest houses, cafes, printers and retailers were among the winners at this year’s South West Fairtrade Business Awards. Minuteman Press Bristol won the Best Fairtrade Office category, UWE’s Full of Beans cafe walked away with the title of Best Fairtrade Cafe or Restaurant and Sophie Luxton from Computershare...
The Bristol office of national chartered surveyor and property consultancy Sanderson Weatherall has been further strengthened with the appointment of Anthony Turner to the role of associate partner. Anthony, pictured, who previously worked for West and Wales chartered valuation surveyors Andrew Forbes, brings a wealth of additional expertise to...
SThree, one of Europe’s largest IT recruitment companies, is to relocate its Bristol base to one of the city centre’s recently refurbished office building to accommodate further growth. The firm is taking 5,500 sq ft on the top floor of Legal and General Property’s (L&G) Redcliff Quay. It is...
Bristol’s world-class capabilities in virtual reality are being seen by millions of international business travellers in a new advertising campaign at Heathrow Airport. The campaign has been launched by West of England inward investment agency Invest Bristol & Bath (IBB). The advert, part of a £500,000 campaign paid for...
Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget included a number of important measures for the South West, including New mayoral devolution deal for the West of England (Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset), giving it “significant” new powers over improved transport, planning, skills and employment. This area...
