Regional alternative finance lender South West Investment Group (SWIG) has made a number of changes to its board, including appointing former World Bank lead economist Christine Allison as its new chair. Christine, pictured, who was also a special advisor to the Treasury Select Committee, takes over from Richard Coombs, who had been in the role for...
The University of Bath has strengthened its research and educational ties with CERN, the world-leading European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in a move that will open up new opportunities for its students. The new collaboration agreement builds on the university’s existing research partnership with Switzerland-based CERN’s Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, one of its...
Monahans, the South West’s largest independent accountancy firm, has appointed a new director and is taking on a second as it prepares for further growth this year along with the relocation and expansion of one of its eight offices. Becky Young, pictured, who re-joined the firm last year as a senior client portfolio manager,...
Business West, the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, has appointed Emma Carter as its new membership director. Emma, pictured, started work at 16 after the Thames Valley Chambers of Commerce visited her school to talk about modern apprenticeships. At 18 she was selling memberships for the chamber and now, 24 years later, she has...
South West accountancy and finance group Old Mill is continuing its drive to become the fastest-growing practice in the region with the appointment of highly experienced tax specialist David Gage as partner and head of VAT. David, pictured, - who joins from Evelyn Partners’ Bristol office, where he was director of VAT – has joined Old Mill...
The Treasury has confirmed that Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment (MTD for ITSA) will be delayed by a further two years until April 2026, writes Pearson May partner Matthew Rutter. It will now be introduced in phases from 6 April 2026, rather than 6 April 2024. The original start date for MTD...
Accountancy giant EY is to open a business research innovation technology and engineering (BRiTE) hub in the South West to help boost the region’s fast-growing FinTech sector. The hub aims to ramp up capabilities in financial services design, data analytics and engineering and create practical and tangible solutions to some of the big challenges...
Monday January 9 Trading announcements: Intermediate Capital Group, Cairn Homes Tuesday January 10 Interim: Games Workshop Group Trading announcement: RS Group Economic announcements: RICS housing market survey, Retail sales Wednesday January 11 Trading announcements: Grafton Group, Vistry Group, Sainsbury (J), PageGroup, Barratt Developments, JD Sports Fashion, Ten Entertainment Group Thursday January 12 Trading announcements: Omv Petrom, Dechra Pharmaceuticals, Persimmon, Tesco,...
The achievements of business figures from the Bath area along with those from the not-for-profit sector have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list for 2023. Toby Sutton and Jack Churchill, pictured, co-founders of tech innovator Scanning Pens, which produces pens that help dyslexic children and adults to read, received OBEs for services to international trade...
Bath’s office market rebounded from the impact of the Covid pandemic quicker than most other towns and cities in the South West in 2022 with activity soaring by nearly two-thirds between the second and third quarters, according to new research. Just under 23,000 sq ft of office space in the city was leased...
