Budding young entrepreneurs are being offered help to start up in business thanks to a new scheme launched in the South West. The Start-Up Loans scheme aims to help anyone aged between 18 and 24 years old to ‘free the business in you’. The £82.5m national scheme was launched by the Government and Dragons’...
Aldermore Bank has appointed Paul Bowden as regional sales manager in its invoice finance team. Paul, pictured, joins the newly-established Bristol-based team, which is headed by regional director David Parsons and provides local businesses with financial help to manage their cashflow and facilitate their future expansion. Paul joins from Bibby Financial Services where he...
Firms could move out of Chippenham – taking with them much-needed jobs – if the future of the town’s major redevelopment area remains uncertain, local businesses are warning. The Central Chippenham Partnership (CCP), the consortium seeking to redevelop the high-profile 54-acre site, which includes the industrial area of Langley Park and the Hathaway Retail...
West accountancy firm Bishop Fleming has appointed David Gage as a VAT consultant. He will be based in its Bath office and will support director of VAT Wendy Andrews in serving clients across the firm’s seven offices. Mr Gage, who has an honours degree in Business Management and an MA in European Business, joins...
In the latest of Bath Business News’ weekly Expert Panel series Iain Fox, director of Bath employee benefits firm Fidelius, explains why offering the right benefits to staff isn’t just good for them, but healthy for business too Viewed in the right way, employee benefits are far more than just a simple ‘perk of...
Bath’s Christmas Markets are to become the first in the country to gain a Quality Rose Marque from VisitEngland, the national tourist board. VisitEngland chairman Lady Cobham will present Bath Tourism Plus chairman Matt Davis and chief executive Nick Brooks Sykes with the award on Friday. The accolade comes after the markets enjoyed the...
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement did not go quite far enough to unlock the resources needed to maintain and improve the West’s business infrastructure, according to Business West, the business support organisation that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce and provides export and high-growth services. There was still much more that needed to be done, said...
Out shortly – our weekly round up of the best business stores from the Bath area, including North East Somerset and West Wiltshire, including today: the main business highlights from, and reaction to, the Chancellor's Autumn Statement. Plus our weekly Bath Business News Expert Panel. To subscribe simply enter your name and email address...
The CBI welcomed the Autumn Statement with director-general John Cridland saying: “The CBI has been crying out for real action on infrastructure, investment and exports. “£5bn on near-term infrastructure, like the tube to Battersea, half a billion a year tax relief for small firms, and £1.5bn extra export support should boost investment and create...
Chancellor George Osborne told Parliament in his Autumn Statement this afternoon: “Britain is on the right track. Turning back now would be disaster. “It is a hard road, but we are getting there.” But he had to again cut his growth forecasts and said weak growth over the past year meant he will now...
