Countless people make Bristol Spring what it is — every founder who turns up, makes an introduction, prays for someone or opens a door. The few below just do some of the quiet thinking behind the scenes. What guides all of it is simple: help people find real friendship and connection. Get that right, and the rest — support, encouragement, collaboration, a hand when it's needed — tends to follow on its own.
Brad founded Bristol Spring and leads it day to day. He has started multiple businesses across law and finance, taking four ventures from vision to exit.
His conviction is the one this whole site runs on: that friendship, pastoral care and entrepreneurship belong together, and that a community of founders can be genuinely useful to its whole city. Brad is married to Hazel; they have three boys and a dog called Meggie.
Paul is CEO of the Willats Trust, Chairman of eXPD8 Field Marketing, and a board adviser to Raise Up Faith and Wonderborn Media Group — a career spent building and steering businesses that last.
Inside Bristol Spring he chairs Springboards and mentors many in the community, with a particular passion for seeing good work done well in the marketplace, and for the discipleship that holds it all together.
Andy was the founding director of SLR, a global environmental consultancy that began in Bristol. He now chairs several charities and strategic initiatives across the city.
His thing is the city itself — transformation through collaboration rather than competition. Much of Bristol Spring's posture of wanting Bristol to flourish, whoever gets the credit, is Andy's fingerprint.
Rob is the founding pastor of the Woodlands Group of Churches, and has offered prayerful covering and support for Spring from the very beginning.
He is the reason the community's roots hold: decades of quiet prayer for Bristol went before any of this, and Rob connects Bristol Spring to that much longer story.
Around 133 founders, pioneers and creators across Bristol — meeting as friends, opening doors for each other, and feeding the tools on this site. Everything here exists because someone in the community gave their time away.