Gloucestershire's new emerging economy

A business that's using prisoners to solve staff shortages, re-writing how we deliver degrees, climate change and the launch of a B Corp army. Gloucestershire's journey towards a regenerative economy.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are having a great week.

Today our big read is really three or four stories in one - among those the revelation that a major Gloucestershire business has turned to ex-offenders to solve its staffing issues - and hit upon a winning formula.

It was a story unveiled at a private event staged by leadership development specialists QuoLux and which also saw the University of Gloucestershire deliver its own grand reveal - a radical and exciting re-think of how it will teach its business and computing degrees.

And there was the small matter of the launch of a new initiative to gather together the county’s growing number of B Corp businesses, and talk from an expert on climate change that delivered some incredible stark news for all of us. We include all that too as a separate story.

And just in case you missed it, we wanted to flag Monday’s story again about a new £10 million building that has quietly opened in Gloucestershire and already contains a most incredible stabl…