A trio of new recruits have joined expanding specialist learning and development consultancy RTS Group. The Chippenham-based company, which creates and delivers learning and development programmes for automotive manufacturers, now has approaching 50 staff as well as more than 200 associates around the globe. Founded in 1989, it recently received a £50,000 grant from...
West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) chief executive Paul Wilson is to leave his job next Tuesday to take up a senior role at Bristol City Council. His surprise departure comes as the LEP awaits Government approval of its Strategic Economic Plan – the £90m blueprint for growth it submitted three months ago....
A team of lawyers from the Bath offices of Withy King joined colleagues from across the regional law firm to raise more than £9,000 for three charities by completing the gruelling Three Peaks Challenge. The 28 lawyers, including 16 from the Bath offices at Northumberland Buildings and Midland Bridge House, ran, walked and hobbled...
SETsquared, the centre for innovative part run by the University of Bath, has been named as the top university business incubator in Europe and second best in the world. In a ranking published this week by the University Business Incubator (UBI) Index, SETsquared, whose Bath base is at the Innovation Centre in Carpenter House,...
Bath-based wealth management company Novia has relinquished its role as Bath Rugby’s main partner but will become an official partner and continue to have a “heavy involvement” with the club. Novia has been involved with the club since 2011 and among its roles has provided work experience for players and raised more than £100,000...
Creative industry and arts organisations in Bath and across the West of England have become the largest group in the UK to receive funding to help generate employment opportunities for young jobless people. The £170,000 from the Creative Employment Programme grant scheme will create more than 140 paid internships and apprenticeships in firms across...
Monday 23 June Interim: Porvair Final: Accumuli AGMs: Beacon Hill Resources, BH Credit Catalysts, Cadogan Petroleum, Tarsus EGM: Acal Economics: Hometrack housing survey, Nationwide house prices Tuesday 24 June Interims: Chemring, Domino Printing Sciences, Benchmark Finals: Carpetright, Imagination Technologies, Immunodiagnostic Systems Trading statement: Petrofac AGMs: Huntsworth, InterQuest, Serabi Mining, ServisPower Technologies Economics: BBA house...
Plans to develop a hub for Bath’s burgeoning creative sector, potentially generating up to 300 jobs, have taken a leap forward with the official launch of the Craneworks project. The ambitious £15m scheme aims to regenerate the derelict Stothert & Pitt factory buildings on Lower Bristol Road into a world-class centre for innovation in...
Issues facing academy schools across the UK are to be tackled at a seminar staged by West accountancy firm Monahans next month. The event, at the Stanton Manor Hotel, near Chippenham, on July 9, will look at fraud indicators and internal controls, capital maintenance funding and year-end procedures will all be up for discussion....
Bath area firms are being urged to visit the UK’s first Export Fair, which is being staged in the South West next week, as a first step to doing business abroad. Organised by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and Business West, the Export Fair supports the recent International Festival of Business, which put exports...
