Synergy Client Solutions Confident Bristol Will be Crowned Green Capital

With just 8 days left before Bristol finds out if they have been named the Green Capital of Europe in 2014, Synergy Client Solutions expresses their confidence in the bid.

Synergy Client Solutions is pretty proud of their home city of Bristol. The direct sales company specialises in utility-funded insulation schemes in and around Bristol so it comes as no surprise to them that it is considered one of the Greenest cities around. The city’s bid took a further boost in recent days when deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, offered his support to Bristol. Mr Clegg said that winning the award would be a ‘fitting tribute’ to all of the hard work that has been put into the environment and sustainability in Bristol in recent years.

Bristol has been shortlisted for the European Green Capital award once before back in 2010 when they narrowly lost out to Stockholm. This time round there are just three cities in the running, Bristol, Frankfurt and Copenhagen, though 19 cities put themselves forward.

The managing director of Synergy Client Solutions, Benjamin Jeanes, feels that Bristol is in with a fantastic chance. “You only have to live or work in Bristol to see all the effprt that has been put into sustainability in the area. I travel around the country often and nowhere do I see the mass-effort and projects that we see in our city. I’m certain that the Bristol bid has a great chance of winning this year. There is some stiff competition from some incredible cities but at Synergy Client Solutions we’re quietly confident.”

The team fronting the bid will do their final presentation in Brussels next Friday, 8^th June. Synergy Client Solutions will be keeping their fingers crossed that Bristol will be the winner this time round.

Synergy Client Solutions is a customer acquisitions company based in Bristol. We offer our clients a tailor-made service from campaign conception to client acquisition.

Synergy Client Solutions: Record Rain Will Not Abate Drought Measures

Record levels of rain this April will have little affect on hosepipe bans, Synergy Client Solutions understands.

Synergy Client Solutions, a customer acquisitions company in Bristol had recently reported on the hosepipe bans facing much of the UK so when they first read that April would be the wettest month on record they had assumed that our drought worries would be over. Apparently not so.

Some areas of the UK are expected to be hit by a month’s worth of rain in just a few days and the Met Office has issued severe weather warnings across some areas of southern England and eastern Scotland. Synergy Client Solutions would like to echo the warning issued by a spokesperson for the Met Office who said, “The public should take extra care and be aware heavy rain may lead to localised surface water flooding and poor driving conditions.”

Synergy Client Solutions understands that the extreme weather is to include thunderstorms, heavy snow in the Scottish mountains, flood warnings in Devon and tornado clouds have been spotted in Manchester, Durham, East Anglia and Lincolnshire. 

Experts however continue to insist that the downpours will have little effect on the drought in Britain which is the worst since 1976 when standing pipes had to be installed in towns throughout the country. The Environmental Agency has said that because the soil is so dry only steady rain during the winter will have an effect and wash into rivers and groundwater.

A spokesperson for Synergy Client Solutions said, “Residents might find it frustrating that with all this rain, drought measures are still in place. Unfortunately it simply isn’t enough at this stage to have any substantial effect. We can be pleased that we won’t need to get our hosepipes out to water the garden but should stick to the instructions given to us to help prevent further measures when summer finally comes around.”

Synergy Client Solutions is a customer acquisitions company based in the South-West. We offer our clients a tailor-made service from campaign conception to client acquisition

Synergy Client Solutions Hopeful that Bristol Will Avoid Hosepipe Ban

Areas of southern England are to be hit with a hosepipe ban as water companies put measures in place to control drought conditions.

Synergy Client Solutions, a customer acquisitions company based in Bristol City Centre read yesterday that emergency measures are in place throughout the South and South East of England. Seven firms, Southern Water, South East Water, Thames Water, Anglian Water, Sutton and East Surrey, Veolia Central and Veolia South East are all to put restrictions in place.

Synergy Client Solutions has heard from the Environmental Agency that although only the South East is effected at the moment, if this spring continues to be warm and dry, as expected, the ban could extend into East Yorkshire and the Hampshire-Wiltshire border.

Managing director of Synergy Client Solutions Benjamin Jeanes is concerned about the wider-reaching consequences. “Quite aside from the frustration this will cause keen gardeners, the repercussions could really hit the farming industries. The prices of vegetables have gone up when hosepipe bans have been enforced before. The price of staple foods has risen considerably over the past few years and this could push them even higher.”

There had been some concern that the Olympics would also be affected but Synergy Client Solutions understands that measures have been put in place to ensure that the Olympic Park and other venues receive enough water from sustainable sources.

At this stage Bristol, where Synergy Client Solutions have their headquarters, does not appear to be affected. However, it could well be on the list if rain levels don’t increase in the next month or so. 

The Eden Project Struggling with Debt Synergy Client Solutions Discovers

Cornwall’s The Eden Project is the latest business to announce that it is struggling with debts from the economic downturn. Synergy Client Solutions reports the problems that it is facing.

The managing director of the Eden Project announced yesterday that the attraction has debts of £5m and that up to 35 jobs were at risk. Gaynor Coley said “We are overall in debt about £5m – but a £5m debt on a £140m asset with a £20m turnover is a very reasonable level of debt, particularly in this climate.”

Ms Coley said that visitor numbers had been healthy but that loses last year of £1.78m had compounded this year’s debt. The cause of the loss last year was in part down to flooding in November 2010 that saw the attraction close for a week and its very profitable ice rink close for one month.

Despite her claims, Synergy Client Solutions understands that visitor numbers have fallen in 2009, 2010 and 2011, with last year seeing only just over 1m visitors through the door. Ms Coley said that they would be looking for innovative ways to ensure that the attraction was fit for purpose and was good value for money.

The Eden Project boasts the world’s largest rainforest in captivity with jungles and waterfalls. It also has fantastic year-round garden displays and an educational centre.  The Eden Project is also a famous concert venue. Lined up to perform this summer are artists Plan B, Blink-182 and Example.

Manager of Synergy Client Solutions, Ben Jeanes thinks that the problem is even more worrying than initially thought, “The Eden project is a research centre that works with communities around the world to reduce the impact of various industries on the planet including mining and businesses. If some of the individuals involved in research are at risk of losing their jobs then that will surely affect their work.”

Malcolm Bell of Visit Cornwall is more optimistic. “We will be looking to see how we can help. I am sure Eden’s team will be working hard and creatively. It took innovation to create Eden and I am sure that pool of talent will be there to see it through these troubles.” Synergy Client Solutions hopes that he is right.

Synergy Client Solutions Watch The Doomsday Clock Hands Move Again.

Synergy Client Solutions, a client acquisitions company based in Bristol, has learnt that The Doomsday Clock has been moved one minute closer to midnight because of “inadequate progress” on nuclear and climate issues. The time on the clock is decided by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) which, created the clock in 1947.

The BAS believe that whilst Russian-US nuclear relations have seen considerable improvement, many other countries have failed to keep their end of nuclear treaties. US, China, Iran, India, Pakistan, Egypt and Israel are accused of failing to act on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The BAS singled out North Korea as the worst offender for failing to cut off production of nuclear weapons material despite a treaty. The clock saw its last movement back in 2010 when the time was moved back one minute.

The Doomsday Clock is something that has interested Synergy Client Solutions in recent years. According to The BAS website The Doomsday Clock ‘conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction – the figurative midnight – and monitors the means humankind could use to obliterate itself.’

Synergy Client Solutions has done some research into the history of the clock. The Doomsday Clock was created after the American atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Within two decades Britain, the Soviet Union, China and France had nuclear weapon programmes. Since then Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea have been added to that number. Substantial quantities of highly enriched uranium, one of the materials necessary for a bomb, exist in more than 40 non-weapon states. Though most of the nuclear concerns in recent years have focussed on Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency estimates than between 20 and 30 countries possess the capabilities, if not the intent, to pursue the bomb.

“Interestingly” remarks the director of Synergy Client Solutions “The Doomsday Clock also focuses on climate change and biological weapons. Huge advances in genetics and biology has, unfortunately, meant that biological warfare, the release of dangerous pathogens to cause illness or death, has become a very real concern.”

Looking at The Doomsday Clock timeline shows that the threat was at its worst in 1953, 2 minutes to midnight. The United States decided to pursue the hydrogen bomb, a weapon far more powerful than any atomic bomb. In October 1952 the USA tested its first thermonuclear device, destroying a Pacific Ocean islet in the process. 1984 saw the clock move to 3 minutes to midnight but the mid-1990s were a period of relative improvements with the clock at 14 minutes to midnight.

“At Synergy Client Solutions we find the concept of The Doomsday Clock a fascinating one. From an environmental point of view there is a great deal that we can do to help. Bristol is home to the Bristol Environmental Risk Research Centre, which is at the forefront of its field in the UK. From a nuclear and biological standpoint, we rest our confidence in the world’s governments. We wonder how long it will be before the hands move again.”