Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has joined bodies representing business, education and employment in urging the government to rethink its controversial quarantine rules for travellers arriving in the UK. In an open letter to the home, foreign and transport secretaries, Business West, UK Hospitality, Universities UK and others argue that it was...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak recently announced more details on the extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), including bringing forward by a month the option to bring furloughed employees back part time. With so much information coming out from the government on the scheme, Mogers Drewett employment partner Sean McDonough here highlights the key...
The Bath head office of national law firm Stone King is hosting three free webinars next week to support charities as they face huge challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The webinars are part of an ongoing series staged during the crisis by Stone King, one of the UK’s top firms advising the charity...
Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May and Bath Business News team up to bring you the top national finance stories. This week we look at more issues linked to the coronavirus pandemic. Domestic reverse charge VAT delayed until 2021 Covid-19 prompts another delay to change for construction services. Find out here what’s changed...
One of the West of England’s largest independent men’s fashion retailers is surviving the coronavirus lockdown after securing government-backed bank funding from Barclays. Peasedown St John-based John Anthony has been forced to close its five outlets, which sell designer menswear, pictured, including its store on Bath’s High Street. While it has been able to...
A new support programme has been set up to help Bath firms whose employees’ mental health and wellbeing have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) is investing £100,000 to develop Thrive West, which aims to address some of the key mental health issues businesses say their employees...
Regional law firm Mogers Drewett has made two appointments to its corporate commercial and private client teams in its Bath office. Solicitor Dominic Shard joins the corporate commercial team from London firm BDB Pitmans, where he specialised in insolvency and distressed mergers and acquisitions, while solicitor Hannah Welbourn, who previously worked in the Bath...
The main areas of focus for most businesses recently have understandably been in connection with keeping the business afloat and making use of the various coronavirus-related grants and funding available, writes Pearson May partner Matthew Rutter. As mentioned in previous articles over the last couple of months, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has deferred...
Monday June 8 Finals: Ocean Outdoor, Thruvision Group Trading announcement: Frontier Dev Tuesday June 9 Finals: Aveva Group, Big Yellow, Group, CML Microsystem, McKay Securities, Oxford Instruments, Schroder Real Estate, Speedy Hire Wednesday June 10 Finals: Castings, Londonmetric, VP Interim: Paragon Group, Shaftesbury Thursday June 11 Finals: Babcock International, CMC Markets, Jlen Environmental Assets,...
Medical cannabis company Sativa, the firm behind the Goodbody Wellness retail chain, is poised to become a major player in the fast-growing international cannabinoid (CBD) market after signalling its intention to merge with a specialist Canadian business. Sativa, based at Beckington, near Frome, said the combination with CBD extraction and agriculture specialist Stillcanna Inc....
