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Friday 3 July, 8:30–11am
St Johns Court, Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2QY · map
Our main monthly meetup — coffee, the first Friday of every month. It's not a place to sell or transact. It's a place to connect, make friends and dream big.
St Johns Court, Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2QY · map
You order a coffee like anyone else in the café. There's no room booked, no name badges, no agenda on the table — just a cluster of founders who got there before you.
Conversation about the build as it actually is — the win, the worry, the decision you've been circling for a fortnight. People ask how you are and mean it.
Someone usually knows someone. An intro here, a grant somebody spotted there, a founder two streets over wrestling the same problem. It's how the whole community started.
Starting something, building something, risking your own time and money on an idea — you're who this is for. The table holds people at every stage of the journey, from pre-startup to multiple exits. First-timers turn up every month, usually alone, and leave with names and numbers.
There is no sign-up and no pitch. Walk in any time between 8:30–11am, find a friendly face and say you saw the website — that's the entire protocol.
Bristol Spring grew out of coffees exactly like this one — founders finding each other, one introduction at a time. The support and the help come out of authentic friendship, not the other way round: everything else we run, and everything we build, starts from the friendships made here.
Come once and you've seen the whole thing. Come twice and people will know your name.