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Bristol businesses have sold more than 20,000 experiences in the city over the last 12 months, generating more than £500,000 of income for local people and small independent businesses Yuup, the local experiences platform founded by Bristol entrepreneur Dominic Mills,...

XeroE launch delivery platform with £100k City Funds investment A partnership set up to tackle Bristol’s social and environmental problems has announced a £100,000 investment in XeroE, a zero-emission delivery service that will create new jobs and reduce air...

Impact developer takes important step towards delivering homes at scale for the region BBRC Homes has appointed Richie Miller as its new Development Director as of June 2021. Richie will lead the BBRC Homes team to deliver its ambition of building 500 new homes in the...

Bristol’s City Funds governing board member, Sally Britton, spoke today at ‘The Evolving Cities’ event organised by The Future Economy Network on the theme of ‘Working Together: Businesses & Communities’. Speaking as a representative of the Bristol & Bath...

New publication, Making a Good Place by Caroline Slocock, Director of Civil Exchange, for the Early Action Task Force examines how local place-makers are investing in social infrastructure.  Bristol is one of the case study areas featured in the report and Chief...

AutonoMe raises £406k to grow independent living platform with local partners. In a bid to help vulnerable people participate in a post-COVID economic recovery, Bristol-based educational technology developer AutonoMe is rolling out new employability services, helping...

Job Title: Development Director - BBRC Homes Location: Central Bristol (but currently operating remotely) Type of role: Permanent, Part Time (4 days per week or 0.8 FTE) Salary: £65,000-£75,000 (pro-rata) according to experience. Possible performance-based bonus...

Bristol City Funds has completed its first social impact investment, with £150,000 invested into Talking Money, a money advice service based in Old Market, Bristol.   Talking Money provide free, independent, specialist advice, help and mentoring to individuals...

BBRC Homes is supporting the Hillfields Family & Community Trust (HFCT) in its aim to build new affordable community homes and to modernise the Hillfields Community Hub, off Thicket Avenue. Formerly known as Hillfields Youth Centre, the Hub already provides a...

The Big Potential Breakthrough scheme, funded by The Big Lottery. Funds provide access to expert investment readiness work for charities, voluntary and community sector organisations and enterprises.

Bristol & Bath Regional Capital CIC (BBRC), the recently launched not-for-profit investment intermediary, announced the completion of its first fundraise on behalf of the South Bristol Sports Centre (SBSC).

It is with great pleasure that I introduce Bristol & Bath Regional Capital CIC. We are at the starting line for what promises to be an exciting, innovative and worthwhile journey of discovery.

Social Enterprise UK, the national body representing all aspects of the social enterprise sector, announced today that BBRC is one of the finalists in the ‘Social Investment Deal of the Year’ category in its Social Enterprise Awards 2016.

BBRC held our One Year Anniversary event at South Bristol Sports Centre last Friday, 16th September.

BBRC exists to provide innovative finance solutions to some of Bristol’s trickiest problems, and homelessness as part of the wider ‘Housing Crisis’ is high up our priorities list.

Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, announced a strategic partnership between BBRC and his City Office initiative at his ‘State of the City’ annual mayor’s lecture last Thursday, aiming towards “structuring Bristol’s economy to work for all”.

BBRC’s Chief Executive Ed Rowberry will be chairing an Engine Shed Finance Briefing panel discussion, addressing the question: “It’s easier to socialise the commercial than it is to commercialise the social”

We are delighted to share the news that BBRC has won the Social Investment Deal of the Year Award at the UK Social Enterprise Awards 2016, held last night at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London.

David Clensy of the Bristol Post interviewed our Chief Executive Ed Rowberry last week to meet the team behind BBRC, and find out why we do what we do.

On Thursday the 11th of May 2017 between 16:30 and 18:30 Bristol and Bath Regional Capital will host an event at the St. John’s Foundation in Bath, in collaboration with The House and Business West.

BBRC values thought leadership and having a deeper understanding of the issues that are facing our city and wider region.

The Chapel at St John’s Foundation in central Bath was a serene, sunlit setting for a bustling room of attendees at Thursday’s “Opening New Doors” event.

Bristol & Bath Regional Capital (BBRC) has recently completed its third project, a £625,000 ‘refinance’ for local social enterprise Bristol Together.

ig Society Capital, one of the founding institutions in the Social Investment market, have finalised arrangements in the last few weeks to lend BBRC an unsecured loan to help us grow and deliver our regional ambitions.

This week the Bristol Post has announced that the construction of 161 new homes will begin in the site of a former primary school in Southmead, North Bristol.

We are delighted to announce that we have worked with local affordable counselling charity Network Counselling and Training to broker them a £350,000 mortgage on their own property in Filton, North Bristol.

BBRC are delighted to be announced as the Engine Shed‘s first Social ‘Investor-in-Residence’.

This article was first published in the economia and it was written by David Adams who looks at the forces and policies which drove housing issues to the top of the political agenda. The UK’s housing crisis boils down to one fact: not enough affordable...

Earlier this week the Bristol Post ran an article about how Grace Ekall started her own business whilst undergoing chemotherapy. Grace took a loan from the Community Innovation Fund (CIF), a pilot project sitting within Bristol & Bath Regional Capital.

From dancer to designer to chef, the founder of Sauce & Spice, Grace Ekall, is using her latest creative pursuit to spice up Bristol’s food scene.