The Genesis Trust, the Bath charity supporting vulnerable people to overcome poverty and hardship, is to transform a building in Walcot Street into a sophisticated upcycled furniture shop, training centre and offices. They charity is being supporting by Bath & North East Somerset Council, which is securing a community asset transfer of the building...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Tim Lerwill, head of commercial at accountants and financial planners Old Mill, answers our 10 questions. What was the last: Film you watched? I went to see Shaun the Sheep with...
Bath’s new Riverside Enterprise Area will give it the chance to become the world’s best small city, with an internationally-renowned creative sector attracting talented people. The ambition, unveiled to the city’s business leaders last week in a new ‘vision for Bath’, will build on its Roman and Georgian heritage to create a 21st century...
The West of England’s strength in innovation and its high quality of life is being showcased in Westminster this afternoon with a giant map being unveiled to MPs, Lords and and other key government figures. Compiled by the area’s Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the map and accompanying policy document champions the area’s success stories...
Monday 9 March Interims: Abcam, Gemfields Finals: Clarkson, Hansteen Holdings, Prudential, WPP Tuesday 10 March Interims: Close Brothers, Craneware Finals: Bango, Cairn Energy, esure, G4S, Goals Soccer Centres, Hill & Smith Holdings, Inchcape, IP Group, John Menzies, Matomy Media, One Media iP Group, SDL, StatPro, Synectics, Tyman Trading statement: Ocado AGMs: Ecofin Power &...
Bath law firm Mogers Drewett is to sponsor the British pentathlon team up to and beyond the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016. The firm will support the 20-strong Pentathlon GB team for two years through all competitions, including the forthcoming Modern Pentathlon European Championships Bath 2015. Pentathlon GB is based at University...
Bath business mentor Richard Tidswell has been named as one of Britain’s top 50 small business advisers. Richard, who runs the Avon & Somerset branch of national advice network Business Doctors, achieved the accolade after small business network Enterprise Nation asked fledgling firms to nominate an adviser who had helped them to build and...
The leasehold of the 18th-century Jolly Sailor pub and restaurant on the banks of the River Avon at Saltford Lock is for sale with a price tag of nearly £200,000. The Grade II listed pub, believed to date from 1726, attracts trade from passing boats, locals and tourists. Its restaurant has around 80 internal...
The Royal Navy has awarded specialist engineering firm SEA a five-year, £1.4m contract to support its weapon systems. Under the contract, SEA, based at Beckington near Frome, will provide its expertise to the Navy’s magazine torpedo launch system (MTLS), the SeaGnat decoy launcher and a range of air weapons handling equipment used onboard Navy...
The new £3.6m construction skills centre at Wiltshire College’s Trowbridge campus will be officially opened on Wednesday as part of National Apprenticeship Week. The 2,300 sq m purpose-built centre accepted its first students at the start of term and has enabled the college to expand its construction courses. It is now teaching a range...
