Bath’s manufacturers are being urged to take advantage of a £30m Government scheme to give employers the skills they need to realise their growth ambitions. The scheme – the Employer Ownership Fund – gives employers 50% matched funding for training projects designed to address skills shortages affecting their business. The first £20m of the...
Inward investment agency Invest Bristol & Bath is on track to hit its target of helping to create 1,380 jobs over two years, new figures show. Since its launch January 2013, the organisation has assisted in generating more than 1,200 jobs by attracting a number of high-profile businesses to the area – and it...
Low-cost airline easyJet is to introduce direct flights from Bristol Airport to Gibraltar next year, taking the number of destinations it serves from the airport to 47. When it launches next April it will be the first time the airport has had a direct service to the British Mediterranean territory. EasyJet, Bristol Airport’s largest...
Bath has become one of the UK’s hotspots for investment in positive social and environmental projects such as those linked to energy, leisure and credit unions. The city ranks third behind Oxford and Bristol in the latest report into positive investing in the UK from Ethex, the not-for-profit organisation that advises investors on ways...
Bath Building Society has appointed Robert Derry-Evans to succeed Chris Moorsom as chairman with effect from January 1 next year. Robert, pictured, who joined the board as a non-executive director this June, has extensive experience in leading a substantial international legal practice – he was a partner in City of London law firm CMS...
The tax and corporate finance teams at West accountancy group Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, are celebrating their most successful year yet having completed just over 20 transactions worth in total more than £200m. The team’s latest deal involved the sale of Asteral, the UK’s leading outsourcing of high-cost medical equipment...
The economic recovery may not be as strong as anticipated despite the latest fall in unemployment, Business West, the organisation that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, has warned. While welcoming the 1.6% year-on-year drop in the number of people out of work in the South West, Business West managing director Phil Smith, pictured, said...
The issues faced by charities and their finances will be put under the microscope at a special seminar to be staged by accountants Monahans next month. The Monahans Charity Seminar, which takes place at Chippenham Golf Club on November 13, will examine a range of relevant topics including the latest charity SORPs (Statements of...
Accountancy firm Old Mill has won one of the financial planning profession’s highest accolades – the prestigious Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) David Norton award for building excellence. The award, considered by many to be the most important in the profession, is made to those firms judged as building excellence in their financial planning...
Accountancy firm BDO has appointed a new lead partner for the South West as it prepares to grow its staff by a fifth and expand its regional head office. Andrea Bishop, an experienced audit partner who has been at the firm for 10 years, has taken over from Graham Randall, who has led the...
