Accountancy firm Monahans is staging a free workshop next Tuesday to help owner-managed businesses handle staff underperformance in the workplace. Called Are you dealing with under-performance or hoping it will go away?, delegates at the event will learn how to: Deal with issues before they become problems Design a performance Improvement Plan Focus on...
PA Helen Witcombe, who works at Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management, has raised £4,650 for children with life-limiting conditions by scaling Africa’s highest mountain. Helen’s ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro raised much-needed funds for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW), which supports young people who have a shortened life expectancy and their families. Helen spent six days...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week David Goodall, corporate director for Barclays, answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? It was a wet Sunday afternoon and I was persuaded by my youngest daughter...
Four of Bath’s most-exciting tech innovators are to bid for funding worth £30m in front of an audience made up of some of the UK’s top investors. The firms, all members of the city’s SETsquared innovation incubator, will take part in the real-life Dragon’s Den-style showcase at The Shard in London next Wednesday. The...
Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management has been named as one of the UK’s top 100 independent financial advisers (IFAs) by respected industry magazine New Model Adviser. It is the first time Epoch has been included in the prestigious national league table, which identifies the country’s very best financial planning firms. The New Model Adviser Top...
West Country accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, has made two senior HR appointments to support its continued growth. Alison Dale joins as learning and development manager to oversee the firm’s training and career growth systems for the 300 staff spread across its seven offices which span Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth,...
Accountancy firm Monahans, which has an office in Bath, is to extend its business recovery service into the Midlands after appointing a new insolvency practitioner. Paul McConnell, pictured, will be based in Worcester which will allow him to extend the team’s renowned expertise outside of its West of England heartland. He joins from Smith...
Bath entrepreneurs and small business owners are being offered a rare chance to meet some of the region’s most-active dealmakers at an event aimed at demystifying private equity and highlighting finance options for growth, succession and exit. The ‘Inside Private Equity’ event is being staged by accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson’s...
Investment raised by innovative firms based at SETsquared, the highly-successful business incubator backed by the University of Bath, has doubled over the past year to £60m – and is expected to rise again in the coming 12 months. Funding has come through a mixture of angel investors, venture capitalists and Government grants, according to...
West of England accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has a large office in Bath, has secured more than £53m in research and development tax credits for clients over the past year. The tax credits were introduced 14 years ago but take-up had been slow until recently – a fact many blame on the misapprehension...
