Regional alternative finance lender SWIG Finance has bolstered its senior management team with two promotions. Nicola Mapp and Clare Lenihan-Thomas will fill the new roles, which have been created to support the business as it continues to grow. Both have extensive experience in SME lending in mainstream bank and community development financial institution (CDFI)...
Latest proposals for a new riverside park connecting Bath’s green spaces via a walking and cycling route will be unveiled at a webinar on Friday. Bath & North East Somerset Council will be presenting plans for the western section of the Bath River Line project – from Newbridge to Green Park – following public...
A tree-planting partnership with its roots in Bath and backed by businesses in the city has acquired its inaugural site, where it will plant around 10,000 trees and create a new wildlife habitat. Co-forest was initially conceived by Bath-based digital technology agency Storm Consultancy, which has since partnered with environmental experts, including EcoWild, the...
Bath charity Julian House, which supports homeless people with a range of services, has received £25,750 from city-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King – the result of a two-year link-up between them. Royds Withy King, which has offices on Midland Bridge and next to Queen Square, made Julian House its official charity partner in...
Monday May 17 Final: Petropavlovsk Interims: Cerillion, Diploma, Hollywood Bowl Group Q1 results: Fondul Proprietatea, Acron Tuesday May 18 Finals: Assura, First Derivatives, Homeserve, Land Securities, McKay Securities, Minds + Machines, Sanderson Design Group, Trinity, Vodafone Interims: Benchmark Holdings, Hyve Group, Imperial Brands, Sureserve, Tritax Euro, Watkins Jones Q1 result: Georgia Capital Trading announcement: DP Eurasia Economic announcements: Unemployment rate, Claimant count...
Newly elected Labour West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris has vowed to raise the profile of the region on the national and global stage while delivering a green recovery from the impact of the pandemic. Mr Norris, pictured, won on the second round of the election, beating Conservative candidate Samuel Williams by 125,482 to 85,389. The former MP for Wansdyke (now North...
Bath-headquartered global media group Future has acquired the US version of fashion and beauty publication Marie Claire just over a year after it snapped up the UK title. Marie Claire US, a joint venture between French publisher Marie Claire Album (MCA) and Cosmopolitan and Harper’s Bazaar group Hearst Magazines Media, has produced the title...
Bath businesses are being urged to join hundreds of employers from across the UK by taking part in the country’s largest survey of race in the workplace. City-headquartered international engineering practice Buro Happold has already signed up to complete the survey, which is being staged by Business in the Community (BiTC), the organisation dedicated to...
One of the world’s first all-electric refuse vehicles will soon be collecting commercial waste from Bath firms following a £500,000 investment by waste management and civil engineering firm MJ Church. The pioneering truck, pictured – the first on the UK’s road – has been built to the Marshfield-based firm’s strict zero emission specification. That...
The Covid-19 pandemic has been affecting us all for more than a year now. My fellow regional agents and I know that those businesses that rely heavily on being able to have customers visit them in person – for instance, the hospitality and tourism sectors right across the South West – have been particularly...
