Evelyn Partners hosts Bristol hospitality and leisure summit

By Peter Davison

5 June 2023

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Kelly Jones

The future of the hospitality and leisure sector will come under the spotlight at an event in Bristol being hosted by integrated wealth management and professional services group Evelyn Partners.

The event takes place at the firm’s offices in Portwall Place on Wednesday, June 28 and is targeted at business owners and finance teams in the hospitality and leisure, and food and drink sectors.

Kelly Jones (pictured), partner and head of assurance and business services at Evelyn Partners in Bristol, and her colleagues Katherine Colledge, partner, business tax and Lynne Blakey, director, advisory consulting, will consider the challenges in the sector and the actions that businesses can take to overcome them.

Meanwhile representatives from commercial agent Christie & Co. will provide a market update, with a speaker from dairy company Yeo Valley discussing sustainability within the sector. A local business will also share insights into operating in the current environment and lessons learned along the way.

“The industry is facing a very challenging trading environment with over 1,500 insolvencies in the accommodation and food service industry in the last six months,” said Lynne Blakey.

“Having most recently borne the brunt of testing economic conditions with energy and wage costs spiralling, the event will focus on the practical issues and steps that businesses in the sector should take to not only survive but to thrive, as we head towards the summer.”

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.