Fewer than one in 10 businesses in the South West have confidence in the UK’s economic prospects, with a record 73% fearful over the impact of inflation, according to new survey. At the same time the number of firms concerned about exchange rates has doubled, with a third of exporters suffering a fall-off in...
Bath’s small businesses and their supply chains can get help to adapt to the new economic and regulatory landscape thanks to a £1.5m fund from the West of England Combined Authority. The Business Growth and Adaptions Grant, which opens for a second round of applications from 19 October, is aimed at enabling small-to-medium enterprises...
The new home for Bath’s world-leading Fashion Museum has been announced at the same time as regeneration plans for the city’s Milsom Quarter – which will be developed around the museum – have also taken a major step forward. The museum, currently housed in the Assembly Rooms, is to relocate across the city centre to...
Goughs Solicitors’ latest series of free online seminars for business owners concludes next month with the final session titled Settlement: When and how to do it. The monthly Wednesday Wisdom Webinars, which have been giving up-to-date, relevant and pragmatic employment advice throughout the summer, are led by the firm’s head of employment Rebecca Dennis, pictured. They allow employers the opportunity to...
Kaleidoscope Collection, the Bath boutique hotel group owned by Ian and Christa Taylor, has put one of its hotels on the market with a £8.5m price tag. The Bird, Bath, pictured, on Pulteney Road was bought by the Taylors in 2018 for an undisclosed sum. They have since invested heavily in it, creating 29...
The founding director of a PR consultancy specialising in supporting purpose-driven companies and charities has been elected to serve on the council of the public relations industry’s professional body. Ben Veal, pictured, who launched Second Mountain Comms in Bath two years ago and is the current CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) regional chair,...
Business groups covering Bath and the West of England this afternoon largely approved of many of the measures in Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget – but the political reaction was less favourable. Business West, the region’s largest business group and the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, said the announcements would go some way to easing...
The £9.3m restoration of Bath’s Cleveland Pools, the oldest surviving public lido in the UK, has been completed following a 15-month project that included bringing all machinery, building materials and equipment to the site by barge. The meticulous work on the 207-year-old Georgian site was overseen by main contractor Swindon-headquartered Beard Construction, lead designers...
Goughs Solicitors’ series of free online seminars for business owners continues next week with a session on re-organising a business and running a risk-free redundancy process. The monthly Wednesday Wisdom Webinars, which give up-to-date, relevant and pragmatic employment advice, are led by the firm’s head of employment Rebecca Dennis, pictured. They allow employers the opportunity to tune in to a...
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng presented his mini-Budget in the House of Commons this morning against a backdrop of high inflation, soaring energy bills and an economy which, according to the Bank of England, could already be in recession. Key points announced by Mr Kwarteng, pictured, were: Chancellor says a new approach for a new era is required...
