New dates for free workshops and clinics across Bath and North East Somerset have been announced. The Starting in Business Awareness Workshops and One-to-One Business Advice Clinics are organised by Bath & North East Somerset Council and Business West and are part of the council’s efforts to help businesses thrive and grow during the...
This week’s long-overdue sunshine in Bath is helping Bath & North East Somerset Council’s efforts to wage the war on litter – it coincides with the installation of 30 new solar-powered compacting street bins. The new arrivals take to 55 the number of state-of-the-art bins in the city centre. They are roughly the same...
Bath businesswoman Anna Hicks is combining the growth of her new venture with help for schoolchildren who have a growing project of their own. Anna, owner of Annatrans HR, is sponsoring Weston All Saints Primary School’s entry in this year’s Bath in Bloom Competition. Her support will allow the pupils to build new raised...
Real signs of recovery are emerging among West businesses, with 35% of small and medium-sized firms having more customers in the first quarter and a similar percentage finding lapsed customers are returning, a new survey shows. The latest figures in the Business Factors Index, produced by independent invoice finance provider Bibby Financial Services show...
Bath-based world music and dance festival WOMAD will be even greener this year following a tie-up with Ecotricity, the West-based green energy pioneer. The firm will host the Molly’s Green Bar stage at this year’s festival, which runs from July 25 to 28 at Charlton Park, near Malmesbury. WOMAD was launched in 1980 by...
Property specialist Carter Jonas has appointed three new members of staff to its West valuation team. Rupert Williams joins as a senior associate and becomes one of four surveyors in the team based at the firm’s Bath office. A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Rupert was previously a partner in a...
Former Bath law firm partner Yvette Morcombe has been appointed by specialist property practice Hoffman Male to head its newly-opened Bristol office. Yvette, pictured, a conveyancing solicitor with more than 20 years’ experience, worked at Mowbray Woodwards in Bath between 2006 and 2008. She has also worked as an in-house property lawyer at McLean...
Bath firms are being urged to consider export opportunities in high-growth Gulf markets at an event today. UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), the UK Government department that helps companies succeed in the global economy, is staging a UK-wide roadshow this month to introduce small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab...
West accountants Milsted Langdon, which has an office in Bath, has merged with Geoff Gollop & Co, the practice owned by Bristol’s elected deputy mayor. Under the tie up, which completed last Friday, all staff and clients from Geoff Gollop & Co have transferred to Milsted Langdon’s Bristol office with Cllr Gollop himself joining...
Business Doctors, the UK’s fastest growing support service for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), has opened an operation covering Bath run by local businessman Richard Tidswell. Mr Tidswell, pictured, who lives in Bath, has been working in senior strategic roles for the utilities sector in recent years. As he gets under way, he is...
