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Pavement planters take root in Bristol


Bristol City Centre BID has helped Bristol city centre to become one of the first cities in the UK to install pavement planters growing free, fresh produce and helping to improve air quality. More than 30 wooden planters growing fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers are now in place along the streets and pavements of Bristol city centre as part of a mission to deliver a #GreenerBristol. Installed and planted by


volunteers as an initiative of the Bristol City Centre Business Improvement District (BID) and supported by local charity Incredible Edible Bristol, the kerbside miniature gardens offer an attractive, sustainable and practical alternative to traditional floral displays. Restaurants, cafes, city centre residents and workers are welcome to pick and use the produce as the plants begin to flourish over the summer months. Bristol City Centre BID has also commissioned a city centre green infrastructure audit from Bristol-


based award-winning environmental consultancy LUC. The audit will make recommendations to the Bristol City Centre BID on opportunities for other environmental enhancements or ‘urban greening' opportunities in the BID area which includes the Centre, Park Street, Queen's Road and the Triangle; Woodland Road and Marlborough Street; Bond Street and Castle Park; Old City; Queen Square and the north side of the harbour. Carried out by Bristol-based award- winning


environmental consultancy LUC, the audit will make recommendations to the Bristol City Centre BID later this summer. Keith Rundle, operations


The miniature gardens


‘These fantastic


urban planters enhance our streets’


sustainable. Working with Edible Bristol has


director at Bristol City Centre BID, said: “These fantastic urban planters enhance our streets and offer free and fresh produce for people to use. Traditional floral displays tend to be less


enabled us to offer a different opportunity for the city centre and all who spend time here. “They will become a real focal


point in the coming weeks and months as the plants grow and bear fruit. And there will be more be to come as our green


infrastructure audit will soon reveal a range of options for more urban greening initiatives. Each of these can offer improvements in air quality and encourage wildlife. I am looking forward to being able to offer more of these opportunities in the future to benefit all those who work, visit, study and live in the city centre.”


Learn the truth about how your staff feel


Three local entrepreneurs from Avening and Nailsworth are enabling employees across the region to tell their employers the truth about how they really feel at work for the first time. Truthsayers®, a new Neurotech® company located in South Woodchester, Gloucestershire, has been set-up by co-founders Andy Dean, Tim Evans and Simon Stapleton. They have developed E-Cubed® (Employee Emotional Engagement), an employee engagement survey tool combining neuroscience, psychology and technology, to revolutionise the way businesses communicate, collaborate and connect with their employees.


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capture automatic, intuitive and instinctive gut responses by bypassing conscious thought processes and biases, measuring the immediacy of participant responses to statements on any digital device, via laptop, mobile or tablet. Andy Dean, director and co-


L-R: Tim Evans, Andy Dean and Simon Stapleton E-Cubed will enable local and


global businesses to get to the bottom of how their staff truly feel, potentially saving companies billions of pounds annually on


ineffectual survey methods and driving transformational change in the workplace. E-Cubed utilises Implicit


Reaction Time (IRT) testing to


founder of Truthsayers, said: “By using our greater understanding of how the brain works and combining this with a state-of-the-art implicit platform, Truthsayers is introducing a ground-breaking application of neuroscience and technology that will benefit organisations worldwide. No other platform can build a suite of products that delivers different tests that are all powered by the truth.”


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