A University of Bath initiative that sends surplus management and engineering textbooks to universities in Nigeria has been extended to Kenya as it continues with its ambition of becoming a near-global programme. Readcycle Bath is the brainchild of Bath School of Management associate professor Teslim Bukoye, pictured, who launched it with a mission to ‘inspire...
Bath Rugby Foundation has launched an appeal for more volunteers to help change young lives in the city, including supporting students with CV writing and interviewing skills. Each year the Foundation, Bath Rugby’s charitable arm, helps around 4,000 vulnerable youngsters to succeed through inspiring programmes that focus on health, education and employability. Its team...
Monday August 19 Interim: Plus500 Tuesday August 20 Final: Zoo Digital Group Interims: Antofagasta, Wood Group (John), Jyske Bank Ord, H&T Group, Empresaria Group, Tribal Group, Anexo Group, Societatea Energetica Electrica Wednesday August 21 Economic announcement: Public sector net borrowing Thursday August 22 Final: Hays Interims: Partners Group Private Equity, Lunglife, Bank of Georgia Group Q2 result: Nexxen International Friday August...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week, Rachel McGill from Resilient Leaders Elements, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched: The Boys in the Boat. A truly inspiring feel-good and true story about the US Olympics rowing team...
Bath-based sports analysis firm StatsBomb, which started as a blog for football statistics fans 11 years ago, has been acquired by a major US sports data company. New owner Hudl plans to continue to grow the business, which has gone from three employs in 2016 to more than 1,000 across 15 countries. It said...
A business started by two former Bath schoolfriends during the Covid-19 pandemic has launched a new product range aimed at making workplace accidents a thing of the past. Former St Gregorys schoolfriends-turned-entrepreneurs Harry Kimberley-Bowen and Ronan Finnegan founded Spacebands when the first lockdown hit in April 2020. The firm sold more than 20,000 of...
Dancerace, the fast-growing Bath-based specialist software firm, has secured new investment to support its global expansion ambitions. The firm, which provides cloud-based software to major banks and lenders worldwide, received the funding from international software and technology-focused investment firm Norland Capital. Launched in 1992, Dancerace develops software for the receivables, trade and asset-based finance market along with training, consultancy...
South West accountancy firm Monahans has continued its expansion by snapping up a pair of specialist financial practices in the region. The addition of Cotswold firm McGills Chartered Accountants and Taunton-headquartered The Insolvency Company increase Monahans’ headcount by almost a third and add a further four bases to its office network. The firm now...
Bath Building Society has become the first in its sector to install a digital crisis intervention tool on all its staff computers in a move aimed at strengthening its commitment to employee mental health and suicide prevention. The society, which employs more than 80 staff in its Queen Square head office and two branches...
People against Poverty CEO Belinda Wadsworth took over the reins of the registered charity in late 2022. We caught up with her about her time with the charity so far and its plans for the mid-term future. Q: What drew you to People against Poverty in the first place? Belinda: People against Poverty, although...
