Bath retail and hospitality businesses are set to benefit from a programme of entertainment, events and activities to celebrate the reopening of the city this summer after more than a year of Covid-related lockdowns and restrictions. Staged by Bath Business Improvement District (Bath BID), Summer Sundays will encourage visitors into the city centre to...
Cylix, the Bath-based eLearning software firm, has been acquired by the UK’s leading provider of business critical services and software that assure safety and regulatory compliance. London-based Marlowe said the move would offer “attractive synergies” with Deltanet, the compliance & safety eLearning platform it snapped up recently under its buy-and-build strategy. Cylix, which is based on...
A Bath hotel is offering free use of its meeting rooms to small businesses, charities and community groups as they look ahead to life after Covid-related restrictions. The Apex hotel on James Street West, along with nine others in the Apex group, this week launched its ‘Help in Hand’ initiative offering complimentary use of...
Bath’s small and medium-sized businesses are being urged to take advantage of grants which can make them greener while also saving them money. But they need to hurry as applications for the grants close on June 25. The Green Business Grant scheme is run by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), which covers Bath...
The Festival of Nature, the biggest free event of its kind in the country, comes back in Bath and Bristol this weekend after a reduced programme last year. The week-long festival, which runs from this Saturday, June 5, to the following Saturday, will include a multitude of virtual and in-person events along with the...
Bath-headquartered global engineering consultancy Buro Happold has helped transform the basement of a 1970s Bristol office block into the UK’s highest-rated employee cycle area. Castlemead, at 18-storeys Bristol’s tallest commercial building, is undergoing a £2.1m refurbishment, partly to prepare it for a commuting revolution likely to be sparked by the introduction of the city’s Clean Air...
Three Bath area firms have been named among the best companies to work for in the South West. The UK’s first digital green energy supplier Pure Planet and housing group Curo – both based in Bath – and Chippenham-based Good Energy, also a renewable energy firm, are included in the latest Best Company to...
An art trail displaying paintings, sculptures and photography in empty shop windows on the theme of nature and climate change is to launch next week to coincide with World Environment Day. The Trowbridge Windows on Nature trail will highlight the devastating fact that a quarter of British mammals are at risk of extinction and 80%...
A business support programme showing how small and medium-sized firms can benefit from sustainable innovation has been launched by world-leading business incubator SETsquared and the University of Bath. The three-year programme, which has been funded by the European Regional Development and available for firms based in the West of England, is aimed at firms...
Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates, which last week unveiled its design for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, has been appointed to a major regeneration scheme also in West London. The long-anticipated waterfront Brentford Project aims to revitalise the suburb’s centre and establish a new retail, leisure and culinary scene, building on its rich...
