A University of Bath engineering graduate has launched a Christmas fundraising campaign to provide poor farmers in Africa with an innovative, low-cost irrigation pump designed to help them take their first steps out of poverty. The Flexipump can collect water from a source six metres below ground to spray on crops up to 100...
Bath architectural firm Nash Partnership’s urban design director Amanda Taylor has been appointed to a national network of design experts. Amanda is one of 150 professionals recruited recently as the first of 400 built environment experts (BEEs) by Design Council Cabe. She is one of just 22 to have been appointed in this round...
Neighbourly, the innovative community-business connector with a base in Bath, has launched a service which aims to help tackle head-on the UK’s 15m tonnes-a-year waste food crisis. Social platform Neighbourly Food will assist in re-distributing surplus food, especially local fresh produce, to local charities, food banks and surplus recycling operations. At the other end...
Bath-based hedging plants grower and retailer Hedges Direct has branched out to acquire specialist distributor Impact Plants – with help from a team from the local office of regional law firm Thrings. Hedges Direct, part of the Lansdown-based mini conglomerate Euxton Group, has more than 10 years’ experience of growing and supplying hedging plants,...
Bath-based superfood wholesaler Supernutrients has appeared for the second year running in a prestigious league table of the UK’s fastest-growing businesses. Rising demand for healthy and natural foods helped grow Supernutrients’ annual sales by an average of 86% over the last three years. That placed the firm, which supplies Holland & Barrett and Waitrose,...
Engineers and scientists from the University of Bath are aiming to produce the first yeast-derived alternative to palm oil on an industrial scale in a move that could open up a new front in the battle against climate change. Palm oil is used in a huge range of products from biofuels to cakes, biscuits...
A sustainable transport project at Bath’s Riverside regeneration area that has exceeded its targets for the past three years has won the West of England’s top green travel award. The project, led by developer Crest Nicholson, took Gold at the Travelwest Sustainable Travel Business Awards, which recognise firms that go the extra mile to...
Hi-tech engineering firm M+W Group is to help develop the UK’s largest waste-to-energy plant of its kind. When completed, the £200m Energy Works scheme in Kingston upon Hull will be able to generate up to 28MW of electricity a year by treating waste – enough to supply 40,000 homes. It will be the largest...
A new enterprise zone in the Somer Valley area including Radstock and Midsomer Norton is to be created to help attract new businesses and potentially create thousands of jobs. The plan was announced by Chancellor George Osborne in his Autumn Statement last week and follows lobbying by Bath & North East Somerset Council (B&NES)...
The CBI welcomed the spending review’s commitment to longer-term investment in the economy but said there was a sting in the tail in the size and scope of the £3m apprenticeship levy. Director-general Carolyn Fairbairn said: “Businesses will be pleased to see the Chancellor staying the course on deficit reduction, his commitment to an...
