The CEO of regional airline Flybe is to be headline speaker at the IoD South West Director of the Year Awards next month. Christine Ourmières-Widener, pictured, who took up the role at the Devon-based carrier in January last year, will share her experiences in an interview with the event’s host, BBC Radio Devon’s Janet Kipling. The...
Ambitious Bath businesses with at least two years of sustained growth are being invited to apply for grants of £5,000 to accelerate their expansion. Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has £500,000 worth of funding available to aspiring scale-up businesses through its new High Impact Scale-Up Coaching Grants programme. Building on the success...
Bath-based chartered accountancy firm Pearson May has promoted Matthew Rutter to partner. Matthew joined the leading regional practice in 2004 after completing a degree in Mathematics at the University of Bristol. He went on to qualify as a chartered accountant and passed the Institute of Taxation exams in 2011. Pearson May partner Nick Oliver...
Rhian Sangha, an independent financial adviser at Chase de Vere’s Bath office, has been shortlisted in the Retirement Planner Awards 2018. Rhian, pictured, will line up against other nominees in the Young Retirement Planner of the Year category at the awards ceremony on June 15 at The Waldorf Hilton Hotel, London. The 28-year-old...
Chase de Vere, the firm of independent financial advisers with offices in Bath, has appointed Ben Willis as head of portfolio management. Ben, pictured, will have overall responsibility for managing the firm’s new discretionary model portfolio service, due to be launched on June 4. He will be based in Chase de Vere’s Bath...
Aspiring Bath entrepreneurs can gain free business advice to help them make their dreams of running their own business a reality at an event next week. The Starting in Business Workshop on May 9 at the Bath and County Club is being organised by the business growth consultancy Cool Ventures. It is one of...
The innovative Bloodhound project to build the world’s fastest-ever car is inspiring young people to pursue careers that use maths, engineering and technology, the region’s business leaders have been told. Nearly 400 chartered accountants and guests from across the business community gathered at the annual ICAEW West of England annual dinner last week heard...
Each week Bath Business News teams up with Bath accountancy firm Pearson May to bring you the top national finance stories. Giving to charity: a guide for donors We’re suggesting four tax-efficient ways to donate to charity. Read our guide here Benefits in kind: reporting and paying tax What you may...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs returns to the West of England for a seventh year in October with one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs already lined up as headline speaker. Emma Bridgewater, who has spent more than 30 years building up a successful pottery business, will share her experiences and give advice to businesswomen...
It is usually the case around this time of year that various tax changes hit the headlines, with the new ‘sugar tax’ seeming to be flavour of the tax year this time round! The start of the new financial year on April 6 did indeed bring with it a number of changes in various...
