Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT’s clean energy lawyers have completed another major deal in the high-growth market. The team has advised investment group Guinness Asset Management on the sale of a portfolio of mixed clean energy projects to Albion Community Power. Operated by three companies, the projects include three...
The government’s £1.25bn funding package to support innovative start-ups and research-intensive firms impacted by the coronavirus pandemic has been welcomed by business and civic leaders in the West of England. The measures include a Future Fund – a new £500m loan scheme for high-growth firms – and £750m of...
More than 2,900 businesses in Bristol have received urgent support grants from the city council totalling nearly £40m to help them stave off the impact of the coronavirus crisis. The council has received around £88m from central government to pay small business grants. However only 35% of an estimated...
Bristol indoor farming pioneer LettUs Grow is fast-tracking the development of two vertical farm modules in the city to help feed vulnerable communities during the coronavirus outbreak. The award-winning firm wants to ensure the produce grown gets to those who need it most. LettUs Grow expects the first of...
The Bristol studio of international architecture and engineering practice BDP is helping convert a conference centre on the city’s outskirts into an emergency Nightingale hospital as part of the NHS’s effort to tackle the coronavirus emergency. Working with contractor Kier, BDP is providing the design and engineering expertise and...
Bristol-based gift card business Gift Up! is providing a lifeline to thousands of firms that have been forced to stop trading due to coronavirus-linked lockdowns around the world. The online platform is offering its innovative service free of charge to enable companies to continue to bring in revenue amid...
More than 40,000 businesses have sought advice and guidance on how they can survive the coronavirus pandemic from a special service set up by Business West, the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce. Trading Through Coronavirus, which went live exactly a month ago, provides expert information and guidance to...
Small charities in Bristol have received much-needed finance from an emergency fund set up by region’s community foundation to help them cope with spiralling demand as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Quartet Community Foundation, which covers Bristol, South Gloucestershire and across the West of England, has distributed more...
Commercial property consultancy Knight Frank has recruited James Redman as a partner to head its lease advisory team in Bristol. James, pictured, has arrived from Alder King’s Bristol head office, where he worked in the professional services team on landlord and tenant and valuation work. He joined Alder King...
Mobius Works, the Bristol-based integrated services contractor, has hired Mark Shortland as its new commercial director as the firm adapts to coronavirus crisis by offering assistance to the NHS. Mark, pictured, is highly experienced in commercial awareness with a career spanning 20 years, having previously worked at Regus and,...
A Bristol-based transport training business has gone into liquidation after being hit by a combination of last year’s economic uncertainty around Brexit and, more recently, the coronavirus outbreak. PB Transport Solutions, based on the Pucklechurch Trading Estate, ceased trading on March 20 and all 11 employees were made redundant. ...
Bristol’s long-hoped-for arena development has cleared its last hurdle with the Local Government Secretary deciding not to ‘call-in’ the plan. The move means developer YTL can go ahead with construction of the 17,080-capacity venue in the Brabazon hangars on the former Filton Airfield, with an opening date of 2023. ...
Property agents have warned that the major shortage of prime city centre office space in Bristol will continue at least into next year following strong take-up over the past three months. Latest figures released by the Office Agents Society of Bristol for the first quarter show 219,420 sq ft...
