A monthly meet-up has been launched in Bath by an award-winning personal development facilitator and life motivator to inspire and encourage the city’s businesswomen. Women Unmasked is the brainchild of Radstock-based Yvonne Bignall, who runs Yvonne B Ltd, a consultancy that supports women in business and helps them realise their potential. Yvonne, pictured, saw...
Around 50 Forward-thinking Bath businesses have signed up to the nationwide Refill tap water scheme that helps cut down on the use of single-use plastic bottles. The scheme, which grew out of a campaign in Bristol, aims to make refilling a water bottle as easy, convenient and cheap as possible by introducing refill...
Bath-based developer Kersfield has been granted planning permission to transform the main campus of a former school in Bristol into 44 luxury homes. The plans, approved by Bristol City Council, include sympathetically restoring the Grade II* listed Redland Court at the city’s former Redland High School. Kersfield will also remove the 1960s sports hall...
Novia Financial, the Bath-based wealth management firm, has set up its own charity foundation to primarily support projects that aim to improve and help the lives of people in the city and its surroundings. The Novia Foundation, which has been accepted on the Register of Charities, was created to mark 10 years since...
A company that supplies paper and canvas shopping bags to leading retailers has relocated to larger premises to give it space to continue its growth and install the first digital printer of its kind in the UK. The Paper Bag Company has upped sticks from its base in the Oakfield Business Centre on the...
Bath business experts have been reacting to Tuesday’s Spring Statement, with most pointing to what Chancellor Philip Hammond failed to deliver rather than what he said. The city’s largest accountancy practice Bishop Fleming was particularly hard-hitting in its comments, calling it a “missed opportunity to be bold, imaginative and transformative”, especially as the...
CBI chief economist Rain Newton-Smith said the Chancellor was rightly backing British business to secure the UK’s future prosperity in a new economy. “It’s great to see an upgrade in the state of our public finances and rightly sensible to set more aside for a rainy day with Brexit uncertainty still weighing on the...
The University of Bath has been praised for its support for ethically sourced products in the region’s top Fairtrade awards. The University claimed top spot in the University category, beating Bath Spa University, which won a Silver award, and the University of the West of England (UWE), which landed Gold. Judges in the Fairtrade...
Bath housing association and housebuilder Curo has abandoned ambitious plans to demolish more than 500 homes on the city’s Foxhill Estate and replace them with 700 new ones following legal action by a residents’ group. Curo had intended to tear down 542 homes of the estate’s 900 homes to regenerate what is often viewed...
Business West, the group behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, and Bath-based housing association and housebuilder Curo have been named among the 100 best not-for-profit organisations to work for. Curo, one of the South West’s largest landlords, appears in 44th place in the prestigious table – which was published last weekend by the Sunday Times...
