South West accountancy firm Milsted Langdon has marked its 35th anniversary with a party for staff from across its five offices. The independent firm was founded in 1988 by University of Bath graduates Simon Milsted and Jonathan Langdon. Since then it has specialised in trusted accountancy advice for businesses and individuals. Today it has 20...
Business West, one of the UK’s largest chambers of commerce, is celebrating 200 years of leading and supporting businesses with a campaign entitled 200 Years of Future Thinking. Marking two centuries since the Bristol-based Chamber of Commerce was founded, the campaign coincides with a new-look brand image, pictured, below, on a banner with members of the...
Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May teams up with Bath Business News to bring you the top national finance stories. HMRC launches VAT time-to-pay portal Eligible businesses can set up payment plans online. Click here for more information Making Tax Digital said to cost £1.3bn The original 2020 launch date was “unviable”. Find out more here
Accountancy firm Bishop Fleming has recruited a new audit manager as it seeks to build on its record-breaking performance last year. Jennifer Morris, pictured with Bishop Fleming managing partner Andrew Sandiford, joins to strengthen the team as demand for the firm’s audit services increases, most notably in the public sector and education. Her appointment follows the recent...
Bath-headquartered law firm Stone King is holding a series of free webinars to help organisations wanting to collaborate and create meaningful impact in the community. Organised by the firm’s business & social enterprise sector, the Collaboration Series started last month with webinars on Collaborative Community Partnerships and Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs). The series then returns in...
The strength of the South West’s FinTech ecosystem is to be analysed for the first time as part of a new project involving businesses, public sector organisations and higher education establishments. The work will be led and delivered by Whitecap Consulting, the regional strategy consultancy with a base in Bristol. Whitecap has conducted similar...
Taste of the West, the UK’s largest independent regional food group, has launched a partnership with regional accountancy group Bishop Fleming and law firm Trowers & Hamlins to help raise the profile of the thriving South West food and drink sector. The firms will act as Taste of the West’s title sponsors for the...
Time Finance, the Bath-headquartered alternative lender, has made two more key appointments, with a new relationship manager and asset manager joining its team. Ian Shaw arrives as relationship manager with a wealth of experience in the banking and finance industry while asset manager Matthew Ridgley joins with 17 years’ experience in the industry. Ian, pictured...
Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May teams up with Bath Business News to bring you the top national finance stories. Employee share schemes under review The government aims to simplify employee reward system. Click here for more information FSB urges summer support for tourism sector Recommendations come after predicted boom in ‘staycations’. Find out more here
Bath area firms will be able to access the latest advice and guidance to enable them to become sustainable when the region’s largest annual environmental exhibition returns next week. Staged by Bristol specialist business hub Future Leap at the city’s Paintworks creative hub on Bath Road, the Festival of Sustainable Business Exhibition next Thursday, 15...
