One Year On: The Lasting Impact of Bristol Junior Chamber’s Grant to Spear Bristol
A year ago, Bristol Junior Chamber awarded a £2,000 grant to Spear Bristol through our fund with Quartet Community Foundation. The funding was designed to support the delivery of the Spear Programme, a structured six-week coaching programme helping 16 – 24-year-olds overcome barriers to employment and build sustainable futures. Twelve months on, we can clearly […]
Bristol Junior Chamber Book Club: Our 2025 – 2026 Reads
The Bristol Junior Chamber Book Club has been busy turning pages and sparking conversations! From gripping thrillers to heart-wrenching non-fiction, our picks this year have given us plenty to discuss, debate, and recommend. Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading. Polo by Jilly Cooper – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ We ended the year with the legendary Jilly […]
BJC Roots: Bristol International Balloon Fiesta
This year, Bristol Junior Chamber celebrates over 45 years of the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, the now iconic festival of balloons, now emblematic of Bristol’s identity and adventuring spirit! Bristol International Balloon Fiesta began like many of the best things in life, during a Members Meeting of Bristol Junior Chamber. On March 15, 1978, Bristol […]
Bristol Junior Chamber leads charge for summer volunteering
A drive to support charities across the wider Bristol region culminated in hundreds of hours of volunteer work by the Bristol Junior Chamber this summer. The BJC Big Help Out, introduced this year by the Chamber’s President Emma Carter, helped link up the organisation’s membership of young professionals with a range of local and national […]
BJC Commemorates VE Day 80th Anniversary
Wednesday 8th May 2025 is VE Day, marking the eightieth anniversary of Allied victory over fascism in Europe in 1945, following six years of war. As a large port city of strategic importance, Bristol played a key role in the Second World War, providing imports and exports from across the Atlantic, serving as a major […]
Emma Carter’s Reflection of a Year as BJC President
As I step down as Bristol Junior Chamber President tonight, I’ve been reflecting on the past year and trying to put into words just how incredible it has been. When I first joined BJC, I never imagined that I would one day serve as President but here I am, having nearly completed my term as […]
BJC backs local charity with £2,000 grant
A Bristol charity supporting young people into work has received the latest in a series of grants made by the Bristol Junior Chamber. Spear Bristol, a charity based out of Christ Church in Clifton, has received £2,000 to continue the delivery of the Spear Programme, an initiative which equipes 16-24-year-olds to overcome the challenges they […]
The opportunities are endless – but we need to act and be the brave person pushing it forward.
Last night, Bristol Junior Chamber hosted our first International Women’s Day panel, an evening focused not just on awareness, but on accelerating action. Chaired by the brilliant Victoria Matthews and supported by Business West, our panel – Donna Speed MBA, CEO of We the Curiois, Gavin Marshall, CEO of Bristol Sport and Imogen Franklin, Head […]
2024 – 2025 BJC Book Club Year in Review
Looking back over 2024–2025, it’s been another year of mixed reads – some easy, compulsive page-turners, a few heavier, thought-provoking ones, and plenty of books that kept us chatting long after the pages were closed. It was a year of variety: books that made us laugh, books that made us think, and books that just […]
Hannover Q&A
How did Hannover and Bristol become twinned? The twinning relationship between Hannover and Bristol was one of the first in the post war era and it came from the people of both cities. The winter of 1947 was so bitter in Hannover that many children were unable to go to school because they had no […]