Innovative small and medium-sized firms from the Bath area can apply for grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 to carry out research and development following the relaunch of an established funding programme. Innovation 4 Growth (I4G) funding totalling £500,000 is available to businesses from across the West of England in all sectors who...
Bosses at Bristol Airport have welcomed the government’s confirmation of support for regional airports as part of its controversial decision to give the green light to a third runway at Heathrow. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling told the House of Commons earlier this week that as well as expanding Heathrow, he also wanted to...
Bath firms that go the extra mile to ensure their staff are cheerful and fulfilled are being invited to enter the annual South West Happiest Workplace Competition. The brainchild of workplace and interior design consultancy Wylde IA, the contest has successfully championed enlightened businesses since it was launched four years ago. This year it...
BuroHappold, the Bath-headquartered international civil engineering practice, has appointed 13 new partners in a move it said showed “quiet confidence” in its ability to deliver high-quality, award-winning projects across the globe. It is the highest number of partners chosen in a single year by the firm, which over the past 40 years has been...
National property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has boosted its South West property management team with the appointment of a new associate director. Nicola Storry, pictured, will be based in LSH’s Bristol office, where she will be responsible for managing assets held by clients including Mayfair Capital, Canals and Rivers Trust and Northwilds. ...
Former South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) director Ian Thompson has been appointed to the regional office of property consultancy GVA as an associate in its UK public sector advisory. Ian, pictured, joins GVA in Bristol from the city office of Cushman & Wakefield, where he was also an associate in its UK consulting...
Hundreds of businesses are backing this year’s biggest-ever Bath Boules Week – and with less than a month to go organisers are preparing for an event like no other. Dozens of Bath charities will benefit from the much-loved and massively popular event in Queen Square, which this year runs from June 10-18. On the...
Another Bath creative firm has relocated to Bristol due to a lack of suitable space in the city. Customer relationship marketing agency Armadillo CRM, which works with brands such as McDonald’s, hotels.com and Disney, has made the move after 25 years in Bath. The agency, whose 30-strong team was based in Alfred Street, has...
A pie factory built in a disused quarry near Wells has been named Building of the Year in the region’s top architectural awards. The 85,000 sq ft factory, pictured above, at Dulcote for independent food brand Charlie Bigham’s gained the coveted title at the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA) South West Awards....
The managing director of the West of England’s largest business group this week joined more than 50 other chamber of commerce leaders to urge the Prime Minister to take radical action and ‘fix the fundamentals’ of the UK economy. Phil Smith from Business West – the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce – was...
