Mark the date for Bath Unlimited’s free upcoming leadership event next Tuesday, 21 January. Those attending will be getting into conversation around the major leadership challenges that lie ahead in 2025. Sarah Williment from Farleigh Performance will be joined by Alison Sturgess-Durden, director at Bath-based business Mayden, to explore how, as leaders, we can navigate...
Bath firms and their advisors wanting to learn more about the British Business Bank’s £200m South West Investment Fund can attend a roadshow event in the city later this month. The fund aims to increase the supply and diversity of early-stage finance for smaller businesses across the whole of the South West. It offers...
Flexible workspace operator Runway East is to open its first Bath hub in a Grade II listed building in the city centre. The 23,000sq ft workspace, pictured, in Kings Court on Parsonage Lane is the fast-growing firm’s third in the South West and 13th across the UK. Launched in London in 2014 and describing...
The West of England can play a led role in ensuring the UK is a world leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) through harnessing its innovation, talent and the spirit of Brunel, according to the region’s metro mayor. By making the region an official UK AI Growth Zone, Mayor Dan Norris says it will also...
The way leaders can navigate the challenges brought in by the start of the new year will be explored at an event in Bath next week. Speakers Sarah Williment from Farleigh Performance, the leadership coaching arm of Bath Rugby, and Bath healthtech firm director Mayden Alison Sturgess-Durden will also look at how leaders can...
The West of England’s burgeoning hydrogen sector needs to embrace gender diversity more if it is to continue to grow while helping in the fight against climate change. By doing this it will also encourage more innovation and challenge established thinking as it assists in accelerating the transition to net zero. The recommendation emerges...
Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a new spray coating for greenhouses to improve plant growth and help extend the growing seasons in less sunny countries like the UK in a more sustainable way. The technology, which can be applied like a varnish to existing greenhouses, works by optimising the wavelength of...
A University of Bath spin-out has been awarded funding to explore new ways of targeting tough-to-treat childhood cancers. The £552,000 investment will enable Revolver Therapeutics to develop a potential new type of cancer treatment. It is looking to do this by harnessing the ability to inhibit previously ‘undruggable’ transcription factors – proteins that help...
A £50m fund to help the growth of small and medium-sized firms across the South West has been launched by investment group Foresight – with two offices in the region due to open to support it. FTSE 250 listed Foresight already manages a number of regionally focused private equity and venture capital funds dedicated...
Bath-based healthtech firm Mayden is celebrating multiple regional and national award wins ahead of its 25th anniversary next year. The firm, which creates software systems that provide data driven insights and genuinely improve how services work, has won awards or been shortlisted as a finalist for outstanding contributions in the fields of innovation in...
