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Solarsense gets its day in the sun! Bristol-based solar energy installer
Solarsense is celebrating after winning a major national environmental award. The company scooped the Renewable
Energy Association’s (REA) Company of the Year Award for ‘the industry participant that has done most during the year to advance UK renewables’. The REA is a national organisation that promotes the use of renewable energy in the UK, and Solarsense managing director Stephen Barrett, who founded the company in 1994, received the award at a presentation ceremony and gala dinner in London. Stephen said: “The fact that Solarsense is a regional company makes this an even more important success, and we are all overjoyed to get this national recognition.”
Clifton Kitchen owner Richard Marques-Jones (second left) and head chef Paul Proudlove collect the award
the 2011 Bristol Tourism and Hospitality Industry Awards just days after celebrating its first birthday. Owner Richard Marques-Jones said: “To have won such a prestigious award in our first year is a huge achievement, and goes some way towards justifying having taken such an enormous risk in opening a restaurant.”
Stephen Barrett, Jennifer Stanley Smith and Jack Daniells of Solarsense with their award
Clifton’s winning recipe C
lifton Kitchen had two reasons to celebrate in June, winning the gong for Restaurant of the Year at
Richard says he’s keen to maintain a relaxed, homely feel as well as a high quality offering, with food prepared on site, using ingredients sourced locally and regionally. “It’s not easy, especially as there’s a
The restaurant stands on the site of the late Keith Floyd’s first bistro – a green plaque marks this outside – and customers enjoy the same hospitality at Clifton Kitchen.
never-ending string of chains opening up in Bristol,” he said. “It’s a constant battle for small, independent restaurants to compete. “Winning the award has really rocked the boat amongst some of the competition and proves we’re doing something right. Not bad for someone whose previous restaurant experience consisted of one month at a gastro pub in Devon and peeling potatoes at my mate’s dad’s chippy over 20 years ago.”
Telecom cyclists storm towards charity target
Pedal power has seen mobile technology company Grapevine raise more than a quarter of its 2011 charity target in one event.
The telecoms experts are celebrating their 20th anniversary with a series of events designed to generate £20,000 to be split between four chosen charities – Dorset Wildlife Trust and the Youth Cancer Trust in Dorset; and Dorothy House Hospice and the Forever Friends Appeal at the Royal United Hospital in Bath.
The company raised more than £5,000 of
that total with a 60-mile sponsored bike ride from their offices in Bath and Poole. “We survived wind, rain and some dubious navigating to make it in about three-and-a- half hours,” said Grapevine’s business development manager Paul Lappage. Next on the fundraising calendar is a golf day at the Lansdown Golf Club near Bath in September, with all customers and interested parties invited.
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