Bath vets’ practice Ashman Jones Vets has opened a cat-only clinic with a dedicated waiting and consultancy room with the support of a five-figure loan from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. The funding has also enabled the award-winning practice to open an additional consulting room at its London Road base, which opened in 2010. The loan...
Students at Bath College had the chance to work with some of the city’s best chefs at a four-course networking dinner for professionals in the hospitality and catering industry. Organised by the Chefs’ Forum, the dinner was held at the Bath College Shrubbery Restaurant and included a special ‘pay-what-you-can’ lunch, raising £1,000 for industry...
It has a reputation as a sleepy town full of pensioners spending their twilight years sitting in deckchairs, but Eastbourne is about to shake off that image thanks to a new brand strategy and identity created for it by Bath creative agency Mr B & Friends. The firm jumped at the chance to create...
Monahans, the regional accountancy firm, has welcomed eight new graduate trainees. Based in its Trowbridge and Swindon offices, they will be completing their professional ACA qualifications to become chartered accountants. For the next three years Ashleigh Ward, Alex MacLachlan, Harris Huntley, Luke Midwinter, Raveethan Gunaratnarajah, Nicola Crick, Delane Janenthirarajah and Eiranjit Chahal will be...
Chippenham-based data archiving firm Arkivum is to expand into new sectors following a £3m investment. The firm said over the next six months it planned to announce new partnerships that will enable it to harness commercial opportunities in sectors facing regulatory and operational challenges around long-term data retention such as healthcare, life sciences and...
West of England accountancy firm Old Mill, which has offices including Melksham and Wells, has raised more than £5,000 for Wiltshire Air Ambulance by hosting an Autumn dinner dance. More than 100 people attended the black-tie event at Bowood House, near Calne, where they enjoyed a three-course meal, an auction conducted by Chesterton Humberts...
Bath law firm Mogers Drewett has become the first headline sponsor of the city’s spectacularly popular Christmas Market. The market, which this year runs from November 24 to December 11, is staged by Bath’s destination marketing organisation VisitBath. It is the South West’s biggest shopping event with more than 170 wooden chalets lining streets...
Bath-based O’Hara Wood Chartered Accountants has merged with regional accountancy firm Monahans, which also has an office in the city, in a move that creates one of the area’s largest accountancy firms. O’Hara Wood was established in 1990 and also has a small satellite office in Melksham. The firm’s Northumberland Buildings office will close...
Shares in Bath area companies listed on the London Stock Exchange came under pressure this week as markets reacted to the election of Donald Trump as US President. Many took their lead from the FTSE 100, which fell by 2% on opening on Wednesday as it followed stock market turbulence overnight across Asia as investors digested Mr Trump’s...
Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management has strengthened its growing team of financial advisers with two new appointments. Ludvig Frick joins as an adviser from financial planning firm Barry Fleming and Partners in Newbury, where he was head of private clients. Prior to this he was a senior financial planner at the Citimark Partnership in Bristol...
