By Emily Eccles, solicitor, commercial & employment, at Mogers Drewett. Industrial action resulting in travel disruption, such as the recent Tube and railways strikes, as well as adverse weather conditions can all impact on your ability to get to your place of work on time, or at all. Ultimately employers are able to use...
Accountancy firm Monahans, which has five offices in and around Bath, is encouraging the area’s manufacturers to have their say on the effect of the engineering skills gap as part of a major industry survey. The firm is backing the survey, which has been launched by MHA, the association of accountancy and business advisory...
Levi Roots, the Reggae Reggae Sauce entrepreneur who secured investment from Dragons’ Den, and Gerald Ratner, the jewellery group boss who came back from the business wilderness, were the star attractions of Business Showcase South West 2015. But the two-day event at Bristol’s Colston Hall last Thursday and Friday was also a great networking...
Bath-based housing and support organisation Curo has won a prestigious national award for its work in preventing domestic abuse. Curo, which manages 12,000 homes across the West of England, received the accolade at the 2015 UK Housing Awards 2015 held in London earlier this week. The award recognises Curo’s approach to preventing domestic abuse...
Boosting Bath’s evening economy by encouraging shops to stay open later, introducing ‘welcome hosts’ to greet visitors and recycling food waste from city centre businesses are among ideas being considered by the city’s Business Improvement District (BID). The BID, which has been in operation since 2011, has been seeking the views of its 655...
Bath firms Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects and BuroHappold Engineering are helping Bristol get its long-awaited arena after being selected as part of the team chosen to design to £90m, 12,000-capacity venue. Unveiling their plans earlier this week, the team led by architects Populous – designers of the London Olympic Stadium and O2 Arena –...
Visitors to Wiltshire College Chippenham’s open evening next week will also be able to sign up to tour the new campus in-the-making. Due to open this autumn, the £21m building is the UK’s biggest skills funding project and will transform the site into a state-of-the-art facility boasting the latest equipment for vocational study in...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week Andy Cox, innovations & solutions director at IT services firm IPL, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Hugo – don’t know what else to say. Book...
The Bath office of property agents Carter Jonas has appointed Thomas Parker to its commercial team as a graduate surveyor. Thomas, pictured, worked in the estates department at Wessex Water for three years before joining Carter Jonas. He has an undergraduate degree in geography from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in property...
Ambitious Bath area businesses can bid for a share of a £200m investment pot – the latest phase of the Government’s Regional Growth Fund (RGF). Firms applying for round six of the RGF, launched this week by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, will be following in the footsteps of businesses such as Somerset luxury...
