Bath Racecourse’s Ladies Day, one of the stand-out events of its season, returns on Saturday 17 June. Combining exciting races with glamorous outfits, ornate hats and top-quality food and drink, Ladies Day has become a key date in Bath’s social calendar and the ultimate girls’ day out. Guests can soak up the atmosphere in...
Bath-based specialist building contractor Emery Brothers has been appointed to carry out essential restoration work on the city’s iconic Beckford’s Tower as part of a £3.9m heritage project. Owned and run by Bath Preservation Trust (BPT), the landmark Grade I listed building, pictured, has been on Historic England’s national Heritage at Risk register for...
Confidence among South West firms remains the most fragile of any UK region, according to two new surveys, with weak economic growth and skills shortages among the biggest challenges. Business optimism in the region fell six percentage points during May according to the latest Business Barometer from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. Firms also reported...
Bath-headquartered alternative lender Time Finance has said that a £1.1m asset-based lending (ABL) facility it arranged for an expanding structural steel engineering firm proves how effective such deals can be. The unnamed firm, based in the South East, was introduced to Time Finance by its financial consultant, Kent-based Open InVoice Finance, which had been brought...
Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May teams up with Bath Business News to bring you the top national finance stories. Self-assessment threshold increases to £150,000 Fewer PAYE taxpayers will submit returns in 2023/24. Click here for more information Access to finance limited for SMEs Low awareness and high borrowing costs limit growth. Find out more here
A senior associate with Bath-based international landscape architecture practice Grant Associates has joined the panel of Design West, the organisation that brings together the best expertise from across the region’s built and natural environment sectors. Andrew Haines, pictured, is a highly accomplished landscape architect and Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute, who has served...
Two new partners have been appointed by South West accountancy and finance group Old Mill following a restructuring that enables faster career progression as it continues with its ambitious growth strategy. Chartered accountant Jamie Rudge and compliance director Duncan Parkes are both now technical partners in the compliance team at the firm, which has offices...
Green power group Good Energy is to ‘twin’ some of its business customers with a specific generator so they can better understand how their power consumption is fully matched by renewables. The Power Partners scheme links customers with one of the Chippenham-headquartered company’s 1,700-plus independent generators across the UK, which range from solar farms,...
It sounds like every student’s dream task – a field trip to a brewery. But that is exactly what a group from Bath Spa University have done as part of their studies. The second-year Biology in Society and Applied Microbiology students visited Bath’s Electric Bear craft brewery to learn about the industrial processes involved...
On-site renewable energy generation is helping thousands of businesses to reduce costs, become more sustainable and gain long term energy security. If you’re considering solar power but are not sure where to start, this free breakfast webinar is a chance to hear from those who have already made the switch and get your questions...
