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 . . . How to access coronavirus support schemes Details on how to apply for emergency measures. Find out here if this applies to you Five personal tax changes...
Fast-growing Bath-based specialist PR, communications and content agency Clearly has expanded its team further with the appointment of three new staff. Stephanie Brown has joined as PR account manager, Aino Rantala as digital marketing executive, while Lindsey Purser has become the agency’s new office manager. Clearly was launched in 2014 by experienced PR and editorial consultant Paul MacKenzie-Cummins...
Thrings’ commercial property partner Fionnuala Nolan and property litigation partner Michael Tatters consider the impact of the recently introduced Coronavirus Act on commercial property owners, their tenants, funders and investors. The UK government has enacted the Coronavirus Act with the purpose of defending its people and economy against the accelerating threat of COVID-19. The...
Three-quarters of South West firms were hit by the coronavirus pandemic in the first two weeks of March, according to a new survey which also shows the outbreak has triggered a marked fall in businesses confidence in the region. Lloyds Bank’s Business Barometer – a monthly survey of more than 1,000 companies carried out...
Warnings about future profits made by South West companies listed on the London Stock Exchange have soared by 75% compared to this time last year – with most of them blaming the coronavirus pandemic. The latest analysis from international accountancy group EY shows there have been 14 profit warnings issued in the region so...
The latest moves by the government to support businesses, including relaxing the insolvency laws and removing some red tape, have been given the thumbs up by the region’s largest business organisation. Business West described the measures, announced by Business Secretary Alok Sharma on Friday evening, as sensible steps that would help protect companies weakened...
Bristol Airport’s largest operator, low-cost airline easyJet, has grounded its entire fleet of aircraft for at least two months – leaving the airport at a near-standstill. The decision – coming less than two weeks after easyJet announced it was drastically reducing its operations – is the latest in a series of evermore drastic measures...
Monday March 30 Finals: Ades International Holding, Belvoir, Globaltrans Investment, Instem Interim: Quadrise Fuels Trading announcement: Pennon Economic announcement: Mortgage approvals, Consumer credit, M4 money supplier Tuesday March 31 Finals: Chesnara, DP Poland, Michelmersh Brick Holdings, One Media, Property Franchise Group, Proteome Sciences, Surgical innovations, TP Group, Tremor International Interims: Diageo, Gfinity, James Halstead,...
Academics from the University of Bath have stepped in to help staff in the city’s hospitals combat coronavirus by overcoming a shortage of much-needed personal protection equipment (PPE). In just three days the university’s Faculty of Engineering & Design has produced and delivered 250 face shields, pictured, for medical staff in the Royal United...
The UK government’s reaction to the coronavirus pandemic and its financial support for businesses has been ramping up daily. But Jon Miles, tax director of Bath-based chartered accountancy firm Richardson Swift, says that while the headlines may seem clear cut, the detail of how to claim any assistance is still to be released in...
