Bath banker Ryan Thomas has raised just under £12,000 for schools in a remote part of Kenya with his latest cycling feat – a gruelling 15-day, 1,485-mile trek from the UK to Rome. Ryan, who works for Barclays Corporate in Queen Square and has completed a number of charity bike rides for Maji Safi...
Helvetic Airways became the 12th scheduled airline operating from Bristol Airport when it launched a new route linking Zurich, Switzerland's financial centre, with the South West. Helvetic passengers benefit from seven days free of charge in the long stay car park until the end of January. Helvetic Airways has also announced a ‘skis...
The Bath office of Target Accountants, which went into administration last week, has been bought by Bishop Fleming, the accountancy firm with the widest spread of offices in the South West. The move has saved the jobs of three partners and more than 40 jobs at Target, whose offices in Bath, Reading and Rugby...
Three IT students from City of Bath College have designed a website for the newly-formed Bath and North East Somerset Entrepreneurs’ Club, which aims to encourage small businesses to start up by providing them with support, advice and networking events. The students, Ben Sanger-Davies, Tristan Welch and Toby Barrett, are studying the Foundation Degree...
Radstock-based Oval Estates has received two secured loans totaling £317,000 helped by ThinCats.com, the online marketplace that allows investors to make secured loans directly to UK businesses. Oval Estates, a family-run business which develops and builds about 50 to 60 residential homes a year and some commercial buildings, is using the funding to prepare...
Bath-based branding agency The House have gained recognition for its Mission Burrito rebrand at the advertising industry’s Cream Awards 2011, coming top of the corporate identity category, along with Wyatt International. Competition was tough, with several entries from global agencies such as McCann Erickson and Golley Slater. Judges commented that the standard of work...
After a struggle of nearly 25 years, the dream of a science park for Bristol and Bath finally became a reality when SPark opened for business three months ago. Here CEO Bonnie Dean gives ANNE GORRINGE a guided tour and talks about the challenges and plans for the £300m site. INNOVATION may be...
Innovative small firms across the region are being encouraged to show they’ve got what it takes to “export for growth” by entering a new competition run by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) South West. The new Exporting for Growth competition aims to encourage more small businesses to take their products and services to overseas...
Bath Lib-Dem MP Don Foster said many of the issues he had pushed for were included in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. “I was pleased to see that rail fares are to be capped at 6.2% -1% above inflation. This is down from 8.2%. This will make a real difference to commuters in Bath. “In...
Business organisations across Bath and the West were generally supportive of the Chancellor's help for small and medium-sized businesses, particularly measures to boost research and development and encourage investment. Gerry Jones, chairman of the Institute of Directors in the South West, said the Chancellor was “absolutely right” to stick with his Plan A fiscal...
