A business hub to help Bath’s digital entrepreneurs start up, scale up and innovate has been officially launched in the city. The Digital Innovation Business Acceleration Hub (DBAH) aims to support 120 companies working on new technologies in the health, well-being and creative media sectors across the West of England. Set up by the...
Bristol Airport next week will launch a multimedia marketing campaign to highlight its biggest ever winter programme. Under the strapline Even Better from Bristol, the campaign focuses on the airport’s growing appeal for passengers across the South West and South Wales as a raft of new flights appear on its destination boards. The campaign...
Bath workspace design firm Interaction is helping city-based MoveGB, the UK’s largest fitness marketplace, maintain its fast-paced growth with a radical redesign of its head office. MoveGB, whose ambition is to be the largest active membership in the world, has signed up 300,000 members and now books activities at more than 6,000 gyms....
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...
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...
More than 650 entrepreneurs have been helped and 80-plus jobs created under the Enterprising West of England programme launched 18 months ago to assist with start-ups and scale-ups in Bath and across the region. The figure includes 440 aspiring entrepreneurs who were assisted at the pre start-up stage, while 18 of the jobs are...
A unique chance to own one of the owl sculptures that nested around Bath this summer takes place this week when they are auctioned off for charity. The Minerva’s Owls sculpture trail delighted tens of thousands of Bath residents and visitors for three months. Now 62 of the original owls are to be auctioned...
Bath’s best eating and drinking places are being showcased in a new dedicated directory page on the website of Visit Bath, the city’s destination marketing organisation. Designed as a one-stop source for residents and visitors looking for inspiration and information on eating and drinking in Bath, the new landing page – visitbath.co.uk/feast – is...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs is staged in the West of England this week for its seventh year to once again support women to build and grow sustainable businesses. Hundreds of women self-starters are expected to attend the day-long event in Bristol this Friday, October 19, to hear, learn from and be inspired by...
