The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs returns to the West of England next month for its fifth year, with a jam-packed programme featuring amazing entrepreneurs and inspirational start-ups. Among those taking part will be Julie Deane of The Cambridge Satchel Company, tech entrepreneur Alex Depledge and Oliver Bonas founder Oliver Tress. Panels will cover subjects...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs (FFE) is on the look-out for up-and-coming female business talent to enter its annual awards as it prepares to return to the West of England for a fifth year. The FFE, organised by small business support group Enterprise Nation, stages its high-profile annual event at At-Bristol on October 21....
The Bath office of regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming has recruited four trainees as it – and the local economy – continue to grow. Over the past year the Bishop Fleming’s seven offices have increased organic turnover by nearly 14%. The firm has taken on 35 trainees in total so far this year across...
Bath businesses are teaming up to back the Big Bath City Bid – the campaign to turn Bath City FC into a community-owned club. Firms gathered in Queen Square on Tuesday to sign a pledge board and encourage others to back Bath City FC Supporters Society – which is spearheading the campaign – to...
A team of Bath-based corporate advisers have helped the UK subsidiary of a French firm with a major acquisition that involved complex cross-border negotiations. The corporate and commercial team at law firm Royds Withy King, tax advisers at Bishop Fleming and specialist technology merger and acquisition (M&A) advisers ICON Corporate Finance advised on the...
West of England chartered accountancy firm Monahans has appointed Richard Brooks as partner specialising in private client tax. Richard, pictured, has joined the firm’s Bath office after spending 16 years leading the largest private client tax consultancy practice in the Channel Islands, where he specialised in providing UK and international tax advice to a...
More businesses are being urged to back the bid to turn Bath City FC into a community-owned club as the clock runs down on its latest fundraising campaign. Bath City FC Supporters Society – which is spearheading the campaign – has secured nearly 40% of the £300,000 target needed to allow it to take...
By Donna Kehoe, the Bank of England’s agent for the South West of England. These days most of us are used to paying with ‘plastic’. And from next week that will be true even for some of the purchases we make with cash. On Tuesday a new £5 note featuring the image of former...
West of England accountancy firm Bishop Fleming has been shortlisted in two categories in the prestigious annual British Accountancy Awards. The firm, which has an office in Bath, is in the running for the Mid-Tier Firm of the Year award for the second year running and also for the Top 50 Audit Team of...
Accountancy group EY has appointed Chris Eastman as a corporate finance director in its South West office as part of its expansion plans across the region. Chris, pictured, started his career in 2002 at rival PwC in Bristol, where he was a member of its audit assurance and advisory team, before moving to Deloitte four years...
