The £9.3m restoration of Bath’s Cleveland Pools, the oldest surviving public lido in the UK, has been completed following a 15-month project that included bringing all machinery, building materials and equipment to the site by barge. The meticulous work on the 207-year-old Georgian site was overseen by main contractor Swindon-headquartered Beard Construction, lead designers...
Goughs Solicitors’ series of free online seminars for business owners continues next week with a session on re-organising a business and running a risk-free redundancy process. The monthly Wednesday Wisdom Webinars, which give up-to-date, relevant and pragmatic employment advice, are led by the firm’s head of employment Rebecca Dennis, pictured. They allow employers the opportunity to tune in to a...
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng presented his mini-Budget in the House of Commons this morning against a backdrop of high inflation, soaring energy bills and an economy which, according to the Bank of England, could already be in recession. Key points announced by Mr Kwarteng, pictured, were: Chancellor says a new approach for a new era is required...
Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May and Bath Business News team up to bring you the top national finance stories. £1.1bn of Covid-19 loans flagged as fraud The government has published a bounce-back loan scheme performance update. Click here for more information Advisory fuel rates update There has been an increase in advisory fuel rates this month....
Bath’s vibrant food and drink sector will be championed this weekend as the Great Bath Feast returns to the city. The free festival, which celebrates the best food and drink from Bath and across the wider region, takes place in the Milsom Quarter from today until Sunday. Staged in association with acclaimed Bath baking...
The chief executive of Bath-based advanced analytics firm Actual Experience has quit the business he founded 13 years ago with immediate effect. The analytics-as-a-service firm, which has a mission to “make the digital world work for everyone, everywhere, all of the time”, said in a statement that Dave Page had “stepped down from his...
Bath-headquartered alternative funder Time Finance has made “significant progress” in the first year of its four-year transformation plan, its CEO said, despite economic challenge pushing down both annual profits and revenues. However, the group, which specialises in asset, loan and invoice finance products, also said the momentum it achieved at the end of its...
Bath-headquartered law firm Stone King has teamed up with pioneering education social enterprise Tutors United to support its work and help boost the employability of its tutors. Tutors United (TU) hires, trains and supports undergraduate students to deliver small group tuition to primary-aged school children from low-income and migrant backgrounds. The London-based charity works with housing associations and...
Regional audit, accounting, tax, and advisory firm Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, has been named among the best mid-size firms in its sector in a new ranking. The inaugural Mid-Tier Power Index has Bishop Fleming in fifth place nationally and the highest ranked in the South West. The index, launched Accountancy...
The government’s energy support scheme for firms has been welcomed by business groups in Bath as giving them vital breathing space in the face of soaring bills. But Business West, the region’s largest business group and the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, urged ministers to provide more details of longer-term protection for vulnerable firms beyond the...
