Three creative professionals from the Bath area have raised £1,500 in just over a week as they prepare for their first marathons to bring in essential funds for a mental health charity. Nathan Baranowski, Jo Wren and Ben Veal, who will be running the virtual London Marathon on October 3 to fundraise for the...
Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates has tapped into Chinese design and philosophy for its first garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. The practice, best known for producing major eye-catching architectural schemes across the globe for the past 21 years, has taken inspiration from the way China’s third-largest city Guangzhou is being landscaped for...
A major new collaboration between academia and industry will put the University of Bath on the map as a centre of expertise for the sustainable use of plastics and chemicals. The university is to host a new £17m centre to lead research into sustainable chemical technologies, accelerating the UK’s transition to net zero carbon...
Regional alternative finance lender SWIG Finance has bolstered its senior management team with two promotions. Nicola Mapp and Clare Lenihan-Thomas will fill the new roles, which have been created to support the business as it continues to grow. Both have extensive experience in SME lending in mainstream bank and community development financial institution (CDFI)...
Latest proposals for a new riverside park connecting Bath’s green spaces via a walking and cycling route will be unveiled at a webinar on Friday. Bath & North East Somerset Council will be presenting plans for the western section of the Bath River Line project – from Newbridge to Green Park – following public...
A tree-planting partnership with its roots in Bath and backed by businesses in the city has acquired its inaugural site, where it will plant around 10,000 trees and create a new wildlife habitat. Co-forest was initially conceived by Bath-based digital technology agency Storm Consultancy, which has since partnered with environmental experts, including EcoWild, the...
