Bath-headquartered law firm Stone King is holding a series of free webinars to help organisations wanting to collaborate and create meaningful impact in the community. Organised by the firm’s business & social enterprise sector, the Collaboration Series started last month with webinars on Collaborative Community Partnerships and Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs). The series then returns in...
Up to 40,000 jobs could be created and a further 60,000 safeguarded across the West of England and South Wales if they embraced the hydrogen revolution, according to a major report unveiled today. It also suggested that between 16,000 and 21,000 kilo tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions could be saved by 2050 by using...
Bath businesses can find out the best routes through the employee relations minefield at a masterclass being staged by Goughs Solicitors and Simple Recruitment. They have teamed up with Radio Bath for the half-day event on 4 July at Doubletree by Hilton on Walcot St. The masterclass is aimed at businesses and owner-managers who...
Bath area firms will be able to access the latest advice and guidance to enable them to become sustainable when the region’s largest annual environmental exhibition returns next week. Staged by Bristol specialist business hub Future Leap at the city’s Paintworks creative hub on Bath Road, the Festival of Sustainable Business Exhibition next Thursday, 15...
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...
Dairy company Coombe Castle has scaled up its operations to meet continued global demand for its cheese and clotted cream after being awarded a series of grants. The firm, based in Melksham, exports across the globe, including to Japan, Canada, the US and Hong Kong. Following bespoke support from membership team at Business West,...
In his Budget speech in March, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt kicked off the government’s plan for growth with changes to business tax legislation, a key policy being ‘full expensing’. But what did the Chancellor mean by ‘full expensing’ and how does the policy work? Pearson May partner Matthew Rutter explains. What is full expensing? Under...
The University of Bath is to play a key role in a pioneering project to make clean hydrogen-fuelled buses a reality – helping support hundreds of jobs and saving millions of tonnes of CO2. The university and its Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS), pictured, have been selected as strategic partners in the...
Two pioneering Bath firms have been named among the country’s 100 fastest-growing businesses. Independent broadband provider Truespeed and Inspecs, the spectacles designer and manufacturer, appear in the latest ORESA Growth Index, which lists the top 100 fastest growing businesses in the UK. The prestigious report analyses the financial performance of more than 32,000 firms...
