Chippenham-based renewable energy company Good Energy has been recognised at one of the UK’s top green energy awards. The 100% renewable electricity and green gas firm scooped the New Energy Champion of the Year trophy at the 2016 New Energy and Cleantech awards in recognition of its achievements since it was founded in 1999....
Bath-based housing and support organisation Curo has today been named among the finalists of the region’s most prestigious business awards. Curo, along with Corsham-based pharmaceutical manufacturing company Bath ASU, line up against some of the South West’s top firms in the accountants PwC’s annual West of England Business of the Year Awards. The coveted...
The successful Business Showcase South West returns next week to again celebrate the best of the region’s innovation, creativity and enterprise. The event, the largest of its kind in the South West, this year takes place at the newly redeveloped Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol, meaning it will be even bigger. Delegates from Bath and...
Bath’s much-needed innovation and digital campus is to come a step closer as Bath & North East Somerset Council prepares to sign a partnership agreement with design, engineering and risk management consultancy BMT and regeneration specialists TCN. The council said the agreement would help it secure an anchor tenant for the city’s new central...
Students at Bath College have secured work experience at Deloitte, one of the UK’s biggest accounting firms, after entering a national competition. Twenty students studying BTEC business and AAT accounting courses raised nearly £300 for charity after taking part in the Micro-Tyco Challenge. They were given £1 and asked to see how much they...
Individuals who have been supported into work and training through an innovative programme run by Bath-based housing and support organisation Curo have been recognised. Curo’s accredited work placement programme started in 2014 and has supported nearly 70 local people, many of whom attended a ceremony hosted by the business at The Bath Hilton. Participants...
Green energy firm Good Energy has launched a carbon neutral gas tariff to celebrate the signing this Friday of the UN Climate Change Agreement. The new offering, partly made up from biomethane – or ‘green gas’ – is designed to make it easy for energy customers of the Chippenham-based business to take action against...
Bath’s independent retail sector is becoming more – not less – vibrant, one of the city’s leading commercial property figures has said in response to criticism by Bath-based celebrity chef Ping Coombes. The 2014 MasterChef winner voiced her concerns on social media over the influx of national chains to the city, which she claimed...
Bath brand agency The House has helped city-based charitable foundation St John’s Hospital produce its first annual impact report in its 842-year history. The House has helped articulate the charity’s present impact and future ambitions and give local people a clear picture of its roots and priorities across its core areas of health and...
Firms are being urged to donate their old computers and help raise much-needed money for a locally based charity. The call has come from Trowbridge-based Priority IT, which is refurbishing second-hand computers for sale and giving the proceeds to its chosen charity, Alzheimer’s Support. The scheme is proving so successful that the specialist IT...
