Bath-based chartered accountancy firm Pearson May is celebrating raising more than £100,000 for local charities from its popular golf days. Now in their 20th year, the well-supported annual events attract businesses from across the region. More than 25 businesses took part in this year’s event at Cumberwell Park. After the golf, which was won...
Nationwide Building Society is to open a branch in Glastonbury, where the last bank closed earlier this year, to pilot new ways of using technology to give people access to financial services. Glastonbury, with a population of around 9,000 and a healthy tourist industry, has been without a traditional bank branch since Lloyds pulled...
Regional accountants Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, said Philip Hammond’s first Autumn Statement was a clarion call to industry to be more productive and to make the UK ‘match fit’ for a bumpy Brexit ride ahead. It said the Chancellor’s first fiscal statement promised billions of government money for houses, roads,...
Bath businesses will welcome Chancellor Philip Hammond’s focus on investment in the Autumn Statement, particularly in areas where growth pressures are highest, according to Business West, the organisation that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce. Phil Smith, pictured, managing director of the region’s largest business organisation, described the statement as “a sombre, not flashy, affair”...
Business organisation the CBI “warmly welcomed” Chancellor Philip Hammond’s commitments to boost research and development, housing and infrastructure. But it said these must be acted on. Director-general Carolyn Fairbairn, pictured below, said: “The Chancellor has prioritised a pragmatic down payment on future productivity growth. “His emphasis on R&D, housing and local infrastructure will help...
Chancellor Philip Hammond his presented his first Autumn Statement: Here are the main points, as announced: Office for Budget Responsibility says growth this year will be 2.1%, 1.4% next year (down from 2.2%), 1.7% in 2018 (down from 2.1%), 2.1% in 2019/20 (down from 2.1%) and 2% in 2020/21, (down from 2.1%). As expected, the...
Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management has been named one of the UK’s top 100 financial planning firms for the third consecutive year. Epoch is once again included in New Model Adviser’s annual list of the country’s best independent financial advice firms. This puts Epoch in the top 10% of financial advisers nationally. The New Model...
Bath area business leaders have called on Chancellor Philip Hammond to go all out to boost confidence ahead of Brexit as he prepares to deliver his first Autumn Statement on Wednesday. With the economic climate expected to get decidedly chilly next year as the UK works towards leaving the EU, commentators are expecting the...
Experts from law firm Stone King, which has an office in Bath, are advising on a national project to help people break the damaging cycle of high-cost debt. The Affordable Loans portal – a partnership between private and social sector bodies – will make it easier for people with poor or no credit rating...
Bath vets’ practice Ashman Jones Vets has opened a cat-only clinic with a dedicated waiting and consultancy room with the support of a five-figure loan from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. The funding has also enabled the award-winning practice to open an additional consulting room at its London Road base, which opened in 2010. The loan...
