Logistics company Wincanton has partnered with charity Mates in Mind to provide all its employees with support and guidance on mental health. The Chippenham-based group said the move was part of the ongoing commitment to support its 17,700 workers, including 4,000-plus drivers, with their mental wellbeing and was an important step towards breaking the...
Small and medium-sized Bath businesses investing in digital innovation to address challenges arising from Covid-19 can access grants of between £10,000 and £40,000 under a new scheme started by UWE Bristol. The university’s £1m Digital Innovation Fund is aimed at helping firms ranging from start-ups and micro businesses to more established organisations as they...
The West of England’s commercial property market could receive an unexpected boost from the coronavirus pandemic as London-based occupiers look to the regions to cut costs, according to one of the sector’s top economists. Dr Walter Boettcher, UK chief economist at global commercial property services company Colliers International, said that while many investors viewed...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has joined bodies representing business, education and employment in urging the government to rethink its controversial quarantine rules for travellers arriving in the UK. In an open letter to the home, foreign and transport secretaries, Business West, UK Hospitality, Universities UK and others argue that it was...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak recently announced more details on the extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), including bringing forward by a month the option to bring furloughed employees back part time. With so much information coming out from the government on the scheme, Mogers Drewett employment partner Sean McDonough here highlights the key...
The Bath head office of national law firm Stone King is hosting three free webinars next week to support charities as they face huge challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The webinars are part of an ongoing series staged during the crisis by Stone King, one of the UK’s top firms advising the charity...
Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May and Bath Business News team up to bring you the top national finance stories. This week we look at more issues linked to the coronavirus pandemic. Domestic reverse charge VAT delayed until 2021 Covid-19 prompts another delay to change for construction services. Find out here what’s changed...
One of the West of England’s largest independent men’s fashion retailers is surviving the coronavirus lockdown after securing government-backed bank funding from Barclays. Peasedown St John-based John Anthony has been forced to close its five outlets, which sell designer menswear, pictured, including its store on Bath’s High Street. While it has been able to...
A new support programme has been set up to help Bath firms whose employees’ mental health and wellbeing have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) is investing £100,000 to develop Thrive West, which aims to address some of the key mental health issues businesses say their employees...
Regional law firm Mogers Drewett has made two appointments to its corporate commercial and private client teams in its Bath office. Solicitor Dominic Shard joins the corporate commercial team from London firm BDB Pitmans, where he specialised in insolvency and distressed mergers and acquisitions, while solicitor Hannah Welbourn, who previously worked in the Bath...
