Box Steam Brewery has partnered with national pub group Punch to promote awareness of men’s health and honour those sporting facial hair during Movember. The family-run regional brewer, based between Melksham and Bradford on Avon at Holt, is supplying its aptly-named Handlebar ale as the November guest beer for Punch’s 1,300 pubs. Produced...
The West of England’s largest business organisation has urged “calm compromise” from politicians over Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan to avoid what it said would be the “tremendously damaging” impact of the UK crashing out of the EU with no deal. Business West – which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce and the Bath...
A major conference in Bath next week will bring together experts to inform and inspire local politicians – and the public – to be ambitious in addressing the city’s transport challenges. The conference will also be a neutral platform to allow Bath’s political groups to present their broad approach to the issue in anticipation...
Businesses and philanthropists from across the South West will come together this Thursday to help raise vital funds for its young people. The annual Prince’s Trust Red Dinner has raised more than £650,000 since it was launched seven years ago, with all the proceeds going toward helping young people across the South West. This...
Business West, the region’s largest business support group, has launched a free up-to-the minute advice and guidance service to help firms get ready for life after Brexit. Called Trading Through Brexit, it aims to help businesses start planning for the period up to and after the UK leaves the EU next March. Business...
Art collectors flocked to Bath this week as the city’s Minerva’s Owls public sculpture trail came to a successful end with a charity auction that raised nearly £140,000. Bidding on the 61 owls took place in a room of hundreds of excited buyers, as well as online – which allowed fans from around the...
Bath-based wealth management firm Novia Financial has officially launched its charity foundation with a glamorous inaugural fundraising event at the Roman Baths. The Mayor of Bath Patrick Anketell-Jones and more than 100 dignitaries joined the Novia Foundation’s trustees to celebrate its launch. The foundation is primarily supporting projects that aim to improve and help...
Five businesses based in Bath or with interests in the city are showing their support for local carers by sponsoring the BANES Carers’ Centre annual awards night. Bath-headquartered housing association Curo, law firm Mogers Drewett, print chain Minuteman Press, Gerrard Financial Consulting, based at Blagdon, near Bristol, and Bluebird Care, one of the UK’s...
Fitness and lifestyle firm Bath Nordic Walking has appointed highly experienced fitness coach and author Yvonne Bignall as an instructor, allowing it to double the number of classes it offers in the city. Yvonne, pictured, who joins existing instructor Sarah Lillywhite, has started two new hour-long Nordic walks in Royal Victoria Park. Nordic walking is one of...
Richard Buckley, chef-proprietor of Bath vegan restaurant Acorn has been named as the UK’s leading ‘veggie pioneer’ in the Chef Awards. Staged by olive, the upmarket food magazine, the inaugural awards recognise the “unheralded chefs who have been quietly excelling in the background”. Olive praises Richard, pictured, for cooking “good food that just so...
