Bath firms based in shared offices or flexible workspaces, as well as B&Bs and guest houses, have only a few days left to apply for a grant up to £5,000 from a special business support grant. The Small Business Grants Discretionary Fund was established to support small businesses impacted by the coronavirus outbreak but...
Healthcare workers battling Covid-19 have received more than 80,000 pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) made by University of Bath staff. More than 77,000 face shields have been made by a team from across the university working from a safe lab on campus for local hospitals and healthcare services since the coronavirus pandemic started...
A new life insurance company aiming to disrupt the market has appointed media planning and buying agency Mostly Media to handle its launch. Primas Life has been co-founded by Grant Fowler – chief executive officer and senior solicitor at Harris Fowler, one of the UK’s top firms of personal injury solicitors. The company aims...
Experienced accountant Dan Kenyon has been promoted to the position of director at regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon’s Bath office. Dan, pictured, joined the practice as a trainee over a decade ago. He successfully qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) in 2011 and now supports a wide range of small and medium-sized owner-managed...
A group of Bath Spa University students have created a comedy show to lift the gloom of lockdown – conceiving, writing, filming and editing it while working remotely and with social distancing measures in place. Titled Pulling the Strings, the 30-minute improvised programme has been made by students from the university’s BA (Hons) Film,...
Rural broadband provider TrueSpeed has appointed Paul Burridge as chief financial officer as it continues to accelerate its expansion ambitions. Paul, pictured, has wide experience in scaling high-growth businesses and joins the Bath-based firm with more than two decades of experience in senior finance roles, from start-ups to major blue chips. He previously worked...
