A Bath charity has praised businesses across the city for their “amazing” efforts to help it raise an impressive £5m. Bath Cancer Unit Support Group (BCUSG) has reached the milestone having raised funds for the cancer unit at the Royal United Hospital (RUH) since 1985. It is now appealing for new corporate sponsors and...
South West accountancy firm Old Mill has become a regional ambassador for apprenticeships to demonstrate and promote its commitment to training and inspiring young people. The firm, which has offices in Wells, Melksham, Yeovil and Exeter, has joined the South West Apprenticeship Ambassador Network (SWAAN), which specifically aims to engage more businesses in the...
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Last Friday is a date that will go down in history. Britain formally left the European Union – but will you remember it as the date that you failed to submit your tax return? January 31 was the online filing deadline in respect of tax returns for the year ended April 5, 2019. If...
A 1,000-acre dairy farm owned by Radstock Co-operative Society is undergoing expansion following a £2.5m funding package from Barclays. The investment is enabling Manor Farm at Hardington, between Frome and Radstock, to upgrade its machinery and buildings and increase the size of it herd – boosting its milk yield. Its 550-strong herd produces around...
The Bath area’s entrepreneurial spirit has been recognised as the best in the West in a business awards scheme that champions the region’s ‘ones to watch’ – with five of the nine trophies going to firms, organisations or individuals based in and around the city. Paulton-based data management specialist 101 Data Solutions landed the...
Three Bath organisations have teamed up to provide a weekly debt management advice service for people living in Twerton and Whiteway. The two areas of the city were last year listed among the most deprived in the UK – a situation made worse by their location on the outskirts of the city and a...
Eight organisations helping Bath residents tackle the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions and addressing fuel poverty have received money from a city-based energy fund to support their work. The £28,370 has come from the Bath & West Community Energy (BWCE) Fund, which supports projects that raise awareness of climate change and encourage behavioural...
The region’s largest business organisation has called on the government to ensure firms get essential support and guidance for life outside the EU as the UK today marks its official departure from the world’s biggest trading bloc. While the UK is leaving the European Union at 11pm after 47 years, an 11-month transition period...
FareShare South West, the charity redistributing surplus food to tackle food poverty, has been granted £30,000 in funding by Bath’s St John’s Foundation to launch an innovative scheme targeting child hunger in Bath and North East Somerset. The move follows a pilot project by FareShare South West last year when it held breakfast clubs...
