Bath’s world-leading Fashion Museum is set to relocate to a major building in the city centre in a move that will also kick-start the transformation of the surrounding area into a new creative quarter. Bath & North East Somerset Council (B&NES) is poised to buy the 22,000 sq ft building in what will be...
Ambitious plans to develop a new neighbourhood with hundreds of homes on the site of Bath’s former Gasworks are to go on public display again later this month after being viewed by more than 500 people in an earlier consultation exercise. Developer St William, a joint venture between the housebuilder Berkeley Group and National...
Accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, has continued to support a major regional tech awards scheme by returning as its headline sponsor. The firm has been involved with the annual Tech South West Awards since their interception in 2019. Now the awards, which showcase innovation in technology across the whole...
Electric Bear Brewing Company, Bath’s only craft brewery, is to launch a special beer to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee that will also raise funds for a tree-planting scheme linked to the celebrations. The brewery will donate 30p from the sale of each can of the Treetops English Pale Ale to the Queen’s Green...
Bath-headquartered alternative funding provider Time Finance’s senior marketing manager Kate Brown has been promoted to head of marketing. In her new role, Kate, pictured, will oversee the creation and delivery of the marketing strategy for Time Finance, whose offering includes invoice, asset, property and vehicle finance along with commercial loans. She will lead the...
Goughs Solicitors is to launch a series of free, online seminars for business owners to get up-to-date, relevant and pragmatic employment advice. The monthly Wednesday Wisdom Webinars will be led by the firm’s head of employment Rebecca Dennis, pictured, and will give employers the opportunity to tune in to a cost-free way to stay...
Have you asked yourself when you want to sell your business and why? Some entrepreneurs may have one eye on their next venture, while others may simply be aiming to retire early. Whatever the reason, the fundamentals of a business sale remain the same. In this blog, we look at three top tips that...
Ambitious plans to transform part of Bath city centre by attracting creative industries and relocating its Fashion Museum have been revealed. A masterplan for the area, led by Bath & North East Somerset Council and funded by the West of England Combined Authority, details how the ‘top of the town’ could become a nationally...
Renewable power group Good Energy is to go head-to-head against some of the consumer industry’s top brands in the battle for a prestigious Which? Award. The Chippenham-based Good Energy will line up in the inaugural Sustainability Champion of the Year category of the awards against German domestic appliance giant Miele and Silver Cross, the Yorkshire-headquartered iconic pram manufacturer....
Truespeed, the fast-growing Bath-based broadband provider, is to freeze prices across all its packages for the next 12 months in a move it claims is in stark contrast to many of its rivals. The firm, which secured £100m from Aviva Investors in January – its largest funding since its launch eight years ago – said...
