Bath businesses innovating in the health and care sectors can learn how to commercialise their products or services by taking part in a free eight-week training programme. Hosted by Health Innovation West of England, the organisation tasked with putting healthcare innovation at the heart of the NHS in the region, the course is designed...
Bath-based workplace design company Interaction’s latest people-centric project for national law firm TLT has been described by the long-standing client as the “perfect space to allow clients and colleagues to collaborate”. The office in Manchester, pictured, includes staff wellbeing and multifaith rooms as well as a coffee bar while also reflecting TLT’s approach sustainability. ...
A University of Bath initiative that sends surplus management and engineering textbooks to universities in Nigeria has been extended to Kenya as it continues with its ambition of becoming a near-global programme. Readcycle Bath is the brainchild of Bath School of Management associate professor Teslim Bukoye, pictured, who launched it with a mission to ‘inspire...
People against Poverty CEO Belinda Wadsworth took over the reins of the registered charity in late 2022. We caught up with her about her time with the charity so far and its plans for the mid-term future. Q: What drew you to People against Poverty in the first place? Belinda: People against Poverty, although...
Curo, the Bath-headquartered housing association and property firm, has completed its first energy-saving upgrade project, making 22 of its homes warmer and cheaper to run for their residents. The 22 properties have been fitted with solar panels, new heating systems, improved insulation and new windows and doors, moves which also make them more sustainable. ...
Good Energy, the 100% renewable electricity group, has become the latest West of England firm to be gain B Corp accreditation, the global standard for purpose-led business. The Chippenham-headquartered group was one of the originators of the purpose-led business movement in the UK when it was founded in 1999 with a mission to power...
Nearly half of all small shops in the South West could be forced to close down without business rate relief, according to a major new report into the state of the region’s high streets. Business rates remain a “huge burden” on small retailers, says the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), which commissioned the research. ...
A charity campaign to raise vital funds to improve access to Bath’s vital parks and green spaces has signed up its first key business partner. Your Park Bristol & Bath launched the Reimagining Parks scheme in May following a report that revealed a third of the population across the two cities struggle to access their local park. ...
Drones capable of spotting wildfires from high in the sky and flying robot taxis carrying fire-extinguishing robo-dogs to quench the flames with sound waves may sound like sci-fi – but one Bath firm is hoping to make them a reality. Fire detection firm Optect is helping develop the futuristic system to tackle the ever-increasing threat of...
More than £11m has been lent to start-up firms across the South West ranging from a sewing café to a mobile cocktail bar over the past year under a programme run by the British Business Bank. Since its launch in 2012, the Start Up Loans scheme has supported more than 9,000 businesses through £90m in loans...
