Bath’s Christmas Market, which returned last year for the first time since 2019, attracted an estimated half-a-million visitors, according to official figures just released – making it one of the most successful in its 20-year history. Footfall was round 25% up on pre-2019 average and while the financial impact of the market has not...
Work will soon get underway to maintain historic Bath property Fairfield House, once the home of the exiled Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I and now an important community base. Owner Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES) Council has started a formal partnership with Fairfield House Bath Community Interest Company (CIC) on a significant maintenance...
More than 100 firms across the West of England have signed up to a regional Good Employment Charter which pledges to pay staff a Real Living Wage and clamp down on the use of zero-hours contracts. Introduced by Metro Mayor Dan Norris as part of a campaign against poverty pay, it also commits employers...
Bath Spa University is celebrating possibly one of the most unusual accolades in its history – Gold Accreditation for being a hedgehog-friendly campus. The award, from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, comes just a year after the university achieved Silver status. Hedgehogs are listed as vulnerable under the International Union for Conservation of Nature...
Travel trade buyers and tour operators from around the world have visited Bath as part of a new campaign by tourist bosses to boost the number of overseas visitors to the city. Prior to the pandemic, around 1m international tourists a year came to the West of England – delivering a major boost to...
Bath’s long-awaited creative centre in the city’s former Stothert & Pitt crane works has been officially launched – with more than half the space already let. The once-derelict riverside buildings on Lower Bristol Road have been transformed by developer and regeneration specialists TCN into modern workspace of the type that firms in Bath’s burgeoning creative...
Bath-based education technology company DoodleLearning has been championed in a prestigious US awards scheme for its revolutionary maths app. Designed to be used for just 10 minutes a day by children aged from four to 14, the DoodleMaths app uses the latest advances in learning and motivational psychology to raise attainment and boost confidence...
Bath-based full-fibre broadband provider Truespeed is aiming to more than double the size of its network this year having achieved record growth in 2022. The firm expanded its footprint by 25,000 properties across the South West last year – taking the total to 60,000 – connecting 13,000 customers and hiring more than 80 new employees. This year it...
Interaction, the Bath-based office design company, has taken on an experienced senior designer who has helped create some of the South West’s most acclaimed new workplaces. Sarah Pasquall, pictured, joins from the Bristol office of architecture practice AWW, where spent nearly six years as a senior interior designer working on large-scale building projects. These...
Confidence among the South West’s small businesses has plunged to the lowest level since the country emerged from Covid lockdowns, according to a new survey. The latest quarterly confidence report from the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) reveals that fears of inflation, falling consumer demand and the general cost of doing business left optimism...
