Bath-based pioneering community-business connector Neighbourly has signed up OVO, the Bristol-based energy supplier, as the latest business to join the social platform run from the city. Neighbourly’s highly innovative platform links community projects with companies that want to make a difference. Neighbourly, which is based at Bath’s Innovation Centre, will now help OVO organise...
A charity that provides support to carers has secured its future in its Bath headquarters as the first beneficiary of a new lending scheme launched by St John's Hospital. The loan means the Carers’ Centre can buy the Lower Bristol Road building, ending uncertainty after the landlord announced he would be sold. Founded in 1996, the Carers’ Centre is the leading provider of...
Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management has donated about £2,000 worth of essential school supplies to children in Malawi. Managing partner Barry Newbury personally handed over the pens, paper and other stationery items plus several reconditioned laptops to Bunda Primary School in the capital Lilongwe. The items were supplied to Epoch at cost by Chippenham-based Woods...
Firms from the Bath area that support fair and ethical business practices are being urged to enter a unique business awards scheme. Now in their fourth year, the highly successful South West Fairtrade Business Awards champion firms that put ethical responsibilities at the heart of their business. Last year 76 businesses from across the...
Ahead of a major export promotion event next week, Bath Business News profiles local firm Foot Trails, which has achieved success in the US, where it now generates half its sales. Inspired by a 680-mile stroll across France, farmer’s daughter Alison Howells set out on a one-woman mission to change the stereotypical image of...
Businesses and charities from across Bath have been brought together at a ground-breaking event aimed at making the city a centre for collaboration. More than 100 people attended the event at The Rec to hear presentations from eight charities and social enterprises. Organised by the Future Talent Programme as part of the independent advisory...
Bath brand agency The House has helped South Devon hospice Rowcroft develop a new strategy to unlock more support and donations by encouraging people to look at hospices in a new light. Rowcroft cares for more than 2,200 people each year – yet many of South Devon’s 270,000-strong population were unaware of its work....
SETsquared, the University of Bath-backed innovation partnership, has been named the best in Europe at helping new businesses for the third year running. The recognition came in the University Business Incubator (UBI) Index, which ranks Europe’s best performing university business incubators. SETsquared, a partnership of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey,...
By Matt Cross, head of inward investment, Invest Bristol and Bath. Business leaders, students, visitors and residents are the most powerful, passionate and authentic advocates of any town or city. People who live and breathe Bristol and Bath get the message across better than any other form of advertising or promotion. Why is that?...
Bath firms are to be given the chance to explore doing business in more than 70 countries worldwide when an international delegation visits the region next month. ExploreExport 2015 is aimed at all companies keen to expand overseas and is staged against a backdrop of rising exports from the South West. Latest figures show that...
