Green/sustainable business

Free business training to help Bath’s small firms recover from impact of pandemic

June 9, 2021
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Free business training to help Bath’s small firms recover from impact of pandemic

Small businesses in Bath and North East Somerset can access a free business support service to help them grow and reach their full potential. The BANES Business Support Service is designed to help firms through the Covid-19 crisis and beyond by providing the support they need to adapt, recover and adjust to a changing...

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Plea to PM ahead of G7 Summit to pave way for more sustainable business amid global climate crisis

June 8, 2021
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Plea to PM ahead of G7 Summit to pave way for more sustainable business amid global climate crisis

The region’s largest business group has urged the Prime Minister to help create a more sustainable future for business at this weekend’s G7 summit in Cornwall. The British Chambers of Commerce South West (BCCSW) – which includes Bath Chamber of Commerce parent group Business West – has written to Boris Johnson ahead of the global...

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Pioneering £20m UK industrial decarbonisation centre to tap into University of Bath’s expertise

June 4, 2021
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Pioneering £20m UK industrial decarbonisation centre to tap into University of Bath’s expertise

The University of Bath is to play a key role in a state-of-the-art research and innovation centre at the forefront of the UK’s ambitions to cut industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) will act as the national focal point and international gateway for UK industrial decarbonisation.  Virtually based...

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Small firms offered free meeting space at Bath hotel to help them bounce back from impact of Covid

June 3, 2021
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Small firms offered free meeting space at Bath hotel to help them bounce back from impact of Covid

A Bath hotel is offering free use of its meeting rooms to small businesses, charities and community groups as they look ahead to life after Covid-related restrictions. The Apex hotel on James Street West, along with nine others in the Apex group, this week launched its ‘Help in Hand’ initiative offering complimentary use of...

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Green business grants can make saving cash and energy child’s play

June 2, 2021
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Green business grants can make saving cash and energy child’s play

Bath’s small and medium-sized businesses are being urged to take advantage of grants which can make them greener while also saving them money. But they need to hurry as applications for the grants close on June 25. The Green Business Grant scheme is run by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), which covers Bath...

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Get set to go wild: The UK’s largest free celebration of nature returns to Bath

June 1, 2021
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Get set to go wild: The UK’s largest free celebration of nature returns to Bath

The Festival of Nature, the biggest free event of its kind in the country, comes back in Bath and Bristol this weekend after a reduced programme last year. The week-long festival, which runs from this Saturday, June 5, to the following Saturday, will include a multitude of virtual and in-person events along with the...

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From unloved office basement to UK’s best staff cycling facility, thanks to Bath engineers

May 28, 2021
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From unloved office basement to UK’s best staff cycling facility, thanks to Bath engineers

Bath-headquartered global engineering consultancy Buro Happold has helped transform the basement of a 1970s Bristol office block into the UK’s highest-rated employee cycle area. Castlemead, at 18-storeys Bristol’s tallest commercial building, is undergoing a £2.1m refurbishment, partly to prepare it for a commuting revolution likely to be sparked by the introduction of the city’s Clean Air...

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‘Best Companies To Work For’ recognition for green energy suppliers and housing firm

May 28, 2021
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‘Best Companies To Work For’ recognition for green energy suppliers and housing firm

Three Bath area firms have been named among the best companies to work for in the South West. The UK’s first digital green energy supplier Pure Planet and housing group Curo – both based in Bath – and Chippenham-based Good Energy, also a renewable energy firm, are included in the latest Best Company to...

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Art trail will use empty stores to offer window into the world of wildlife’s rapid decline

May 27, 2021
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Art trail will use empty stores to offer window into the world of wildlife’s rapid decline

An art trail displaying paintings, sculptures and photography in empty shop windows on the theme of nature and climate change is to launch next week to coincide with World Environment Day. The Trowbridge Windows on Nature trail will highlight the devastating fact that a quarter of British mammals are at risk of extinction and 80%...

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Major programme to help Bath firms develop low-carbon and sustainable technology

May 27, 2021
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Major programme to help Bath firms develop low-carbon and sustainable technology

A business support programme showing how small and medium-sized firms can benefit from sustainable innovation has been launched by world-leading business incubator SETsquared and the University of Bath. The three-year programme, which has been funded by the European Regional Development and available for firms based in the West of England, is aimed at firms...

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