Bristol · a community of founders

Founders do better with friends.

A community of founders building tools for everyone making something in Bristol. We grew out of 30+ of the city's churches, and the door is open to all.

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130+ founders · 30+ churches · built for the city

33 grants open now £5.8m a founder could win 10 founder events this week

Live from the tools we've built for the city — updated 6am daily.

The Bristol PulseUpdated 6am daily

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Content Creation & Video Marketing: Create Compelling Messages

Bristol Central Library · community

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Jun

Harnessing IP – Getting it right from the get-go

EQ Building · training

Jun

PurposeFest at Belmont Estate

Belmont Estate · community

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For the whole city

Tools for everyone building something in Bristol.

A small team with the right tools can now build things that used to need a whole company. So we're building useful tools and giving them to the city.

The anchor tool · live now

The Bristol Pulse

Every talk, meetup, angel night and fundraiser in Bristol's founder scene, in one feed — with the week ahead in a single email each Sunday.

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Apply for a grantFunding a Bristol founder could actually win, with real deadlines.33 open now · £5.8m to win Raising investment for your start-up?The local angel networks, SEIS/EIS funds and accelerators, mapped.5 local routes mapped Looking for an office or desk?Desks and studios that won't sink a young company.Real desks, real prices Need some help from other founders?Concrete asks from Bristol founders — an intro, a beta tester, an hour.1 live ask on the board

A new tool for the city, roughly every month — see the whole toolkit.

In person, every month

The community runs on real life.

No programme, no curriculum. Just founders who have been in the arena helping others step into it. Friends who notice when you go quiet.

Monthly · first Friday

First Friday

Coffee and an honest hour — bring the win, the worry, or just the need for a friendly face.

Boston Tea Party, Whiteladies Road · next: Fri 3 Jul

Small groups · monthly

Springboards

Five or six founders; half an hour of undivided attention each.

Evenings, every so often

Burger & Pint Night

Real stories of the build — the parts nobody puts on LinkedIn.

The Gloucester Old Spot

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Where we began

We grew out of Bristol's churches — and we're for the whole city.

Bristol Spring began as founders from more than 30 churches across Bristol kept finding each other, and started meeting as friends. It grew the way friendship does, one introduction at a time. The fuller story — where the idea started, what changed, and what we're building next — is on the About page, and the people carrying it are on the team page.

If you don't share the faith

You are welcome here exactly as you are. If you're building something in Bristol, that is what we have in common, and it is enough — no statement to sign, no agenda on you.

The door is open. Just come.

There is no membership and nothing to sign. Both ways in are easy to leave again.

The open door

Come to a First Friday

8:30–11am, Boston Tea Party, Whiteladies Road. No sign-up, no pitch. Find a friendly face and say you saw the website.

Next one: Fri 3 Jul, 8:30–11am →

The quiet way in

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