Two innovative Bath firms are among 12 of the West of England’s most exciting and fastest-growing businesses chosen to pitch next month for investment at an event that will also highlight the area as a hive of tech and creative activity. Accountancy group PwC and Business West, in collaboration with Bristol’s innovation hub Engine...
Regional chartered accountancy firm MHA Monahans, which has eight offices across the West of England, has donated out-of-date branded merchandise to support the work of a humanitarian aid charity in West Africa. Last November the firm rebranded from Monahans to MHA Monahans to highlight its ongoing membership of MHA, the national association of...
By Donna Kehoe, Bank of England agent for the South West of England The Bank of England has been providing significant support to our economy for more than a decade. We cut interest rates to exceptionally low levels during the financial crisis to support spending and to reduce the number of people out of...
Bishop Fleming, the regional accountancy firm with a large office in Bath, has appointed Frances Teague as its new director of finance. Frances, a chartered accountant, joins from retail group Debenhams, where she was senior finance manager. In an extensive career she has worked in a number of accountancy and financial controller roles,...
Bath’s economy is set for a boost this summer when 100 individually decorated owl sculptures descend on the city in its third – and most ambitious – public arts sculpture trail. Minerva’s Owls of Bath 2018 will be brought to the area by the same team behind the enormously popular King Bladud’s Pigs in...
Small and medium-sized businesses in the Bath area can benefit from research and development grants of up £75,000 under the University of the West of England’s (UWE Bristol) relaunched Innovation 4 Growth (I4G) grant funding programme. The popular initiative, which recently opened for the fifth time, pledges a total of £650,000 in funding. ...
As I am sure most people are aware, January 31 was the online filing deadline for tax returns for the year ended April 5, 2017, writes Pearson May partner Jacqui Bowden. If you missed this deadline for whatever reason then you can still file your tax return, but you must act sooner rather...
The West of England’s largest business organisation this week warned the government that its approach to Brexit was “positively damaging” firms in the region. Business West, which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, backed an open letter to Prime Minister Theresa May by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) calling for clarity on the government’s...
A Midsomer Norton businessman’s ambition to cut drink-driving accidents has been strengthened following the sale of his company to a major fleet management firm. Former motorsports industry executive David Whittock set up Alcolock GB in 2006 after seeing a niche in the market for a device that could help stem the increasing number of...
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