A strong order book has given civil engineering, plant, transport and waste group MJ Church a buoyant start to 2017 following a busy 2016. The Marshfield-based group, which also operates from two sites in Chippenham, has grown to a £50m turnover business employing around 450 people. It said, as a diverse group, it expected...
Curo, the Bath-based housing association and housebuilder, has appointed construction group Rydon to build its £10m community hub at its flagship Mulberry Park development. Construction work on the new primary school, children’s nursery and state-of-the–art community facilities on the outskirts of Bath will start this spring and the buildings are expected to open in...
Businesses in the property development and construction supply chain are being urged to register for the HMRC’s Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) amid misunderstandings over who it affects. The warning comes from the South West office of accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson, whose experts say many firms wrongly believe it only...
Independent financial advice firm Chase de Vere’s Bath-based certified financial planner Patrick Connolly has won an unprecedented four awards at the Unbiased Media Awards 2017. The awards recognise the contributions of those who work alongside the financial media in providing informed and insightful comment for readers. It is judged by a panel of financial...
Bath-based specialist property developer Longacre has been given the green light to refurbish Grade I listed Fitzroy House on Great Pulteney Street and reinstate many of its historic characteristics. Longacre is converting the five Georgian townhouses making up the building into 28 private apartments. Dating from around 1800, the property was a hotel before...
Pearson May partner David Richards looks at proposed changes to the flat rate VAT scheme Many small businesses use the VAT flat rate scheme (FRS) to simplify VAT reporting and some even gain a cash advantage from using the scheme. One of the conditions for using the FRS is that the business’s turnover (excluding...
Bath’s ethical firms have until today, Friday, to enter the South West Fairtrade Business Awards following an extension of the deadline. The coveted awards, now in their fifth year, are open to all organisations in the region that use Fairtrade products and prioritise fair trade practices within their business. They are free to enter...
Thrings, the regional law firm with an office in Bath, has been appointed by the Bar Council to a new debt recovery panel to help barristers collect outstanding fees from professional clients. Thrings is only one of two firms to be chosen to become a strategic partner for the new service. The Bar Council...
The Bath office of law firm Royds Withy King has acted as the lead adviser to shareholders of Somerset-based insurance services firm Higos in its sale to major specialist insurance group Global Risk Partners (GRP). Somerton-based Higos, which employs around 300 people in 20 offices in Somerset, Dorset, South Gloucestershire, Devon, Wiltshire and Hampshire,...
Directors from Bath and across the West of England are being invited to enter one of the region’s top annual awards schemes that recognises excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The prestigious Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards 2017 will showcase outstanding leaders and entrepreneurs as well as focusing UK-wide attention on...
