Bath PR agency Second Mountain Comms has become the first in the city to join Children’s Hospice South West’s new business club and is encouraging other companies do the same. The club aims to recruit 100 businesses this year, each paying £300 for their membership, to help the charity raise £30,000 – – enough...
A campaign to help Bath area businesses recover from the impact coronavirus by connecting them with essential support and guidance has been launched by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA). Called Together West of England, the campaign is part of a plan for a long-term, post-Covid recovery drawn up in partnership with the...
The potential of hydrogen to spark a revolution in the West of England’s industrial base is to be explored in a major digital event next month. The Virtual Hydrogen Summit is the first event of its kind to be staged by The West of England Aerospace Forum (WEAF), which represents many of the region’s...
Businesses are being encouraged to check whether they will need to pay to drive their vehicles in Bath after the city’s Clean Air Zone launches in six weeks’ time. Following the introduction of the Class C Charging Clean Air Zone (CAZ) on March 15, drivers of most pre-euro 6 diesel and pre-euro 4 petrol...
Bath-based housing group Curo’s 700-home Mulberry Park development on the city’s outskirts has been described as an ‘unqualified success’ and England’s best current scheme in an assessment based on its impact on people and nature. The development on the 48-acre former Foxhill MoD site includes community facilities and open spaces as well as a...
PwC, the Global accountancy group, has promoted five senior managers into director roles in its West & Wales practice and hired a sixth as it continues its investment in the region. The group, which covers from the region from offices in Bristol and Cardiff, has also made 15 promotions to senior manager and 34...
Scientists at the University of Bath are seeking volunteers to take part in a study to determine how wearable technology can help measure the energy people use from day to day. The research team from the university’s Department for Health are staging the six-week study to determine the energy used by men and women...
Boutique hotel The Bird, Bath, has made a trio of new appointments to bolster its senior management team. Ashley Ely, pictured, joins the 31-bedroom venue on Pulteney Road, part of Bath-based hoteliers Ian and Christa Taylor’s Kaleidoscope Collection, as general manager from March 1. He was most recently cluster general manager for London-based Locke...
Bath-based communications agency Clearly has taken on four new staff and launched an undergraduate internship program after chalking up a 59% increase in revenues over the past six months. The firm has also pledged to donate 2% of total revenues to environmental and social impact programs – with a target of £500,000 over the next seven years. While the...
Bath Ales’ parent company has secured new funding from its lenders to help it withstand the challenges of Covid-19 and allow it to invest for the future. St Austell, which makes beers including Tribute bitter, Proper Job IPA and Korev lager brands, and owns a portfolio of more than 180 pubs, inns and hotels,...
