Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has launched a directory service to help signpost firms to vital advice, opportunities and support services. Back to Business is an evolution of Business West’s highly successful Trading Through Coronavirus platform, which has been visited by more than 100,000 businesses across the South West. It has been launched...
Regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon, which has an office in Bath, is encouraging businesses to take advantage of up to £1m in tax relief before it runs out. The Annual Investment Allowance (AIA) for capital allowances was increased to £1m a year for expenditure from January 1, 2019. However, from January 1, 2021, it will...
Bath’s tourism, hospitality, retail and cultural organisations have come together to create a series of events in the run-up to Christmas to ensure the city’s economy stays strong during what will be one of the toughest festive periods for generations. While Bath’s traditional – and highly lucrative – Christmas Market, pictured, has already been...
Bath-based housing association Curo is to help speed up the delivery of vital new homes across the South of England through a new partnership funded by the government’s housing agency Homes England. Curo, which manages more than 13,000 homes across the region and builds hundreds of new ones a year, has received £51.1m to...
Bath-based construction and property development group Halsall has two new directors as a result of internal promotions. Tim Lakeman, pictured left, has taken on the position of commercial director for Halsall’s construction business while Ben Jones, right, will become finance director of both Construction and Halsall’s joint venture development arm, Halsall Homes. Both promotions form part...
Bath will be promoted as a world-class location for dynamic and successful companies and their talented employees in a new campaign launched yesterday. As the first part of the initiative, a new website – www.bathunlimited.org – has gone live which showcases the achievements of some of the area’s biggest and most successful businesses. The...
An £8m skills programme to help Bath businesses plan and respond to their workforce needs – particularly those triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic – is being launched by the West of England Combined Authority. Called Workforce for the Future, the free service will help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) identify and address their skills needs...
Regional law firm Mogers Drewett, which has an office in Bath, has strengthened its residential property team with the appointment of Patrick Brady as business development manager Patrick, pictured, joins from property agency Savills’ Salisbury office, where he has been director and head of residential sales for just over three years. He has nearly...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday set out the government’s new job retention measures in an attempt to support employers who face lower demand over the next six months due to Covid-19. While more information is coming out all the time about the scheme, Bath law firm Mogers Drewett’s employment partner Sean McDonough answers some of the key...
Widespread evictions are unlikely to follow the lifting of Covid-related landlord restrictions, partly due a backlog of cases, a top property lawyer is claiming. Jacqui Walton, pictured, a senior paralegal in the residential property team at Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King, said landlords were bound by strict rules designed to slow down the...
