Bath charity Send a Cow is working with coffee shop chain Starbucks on a nationwide fundraising campaign to support farmers on smallholdings in rural Africa. Nearly 700 Starbucks across the UK are aiming to raise £650 each for The Big Cow Project – the equivalent of a dairy cow that can change lives for...
The region covered by the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has been rated as the best of the 39 LEP areas across the country for its record on business start-ups. Research by information agency BankSearch shows 5.7% more businesses were launched in West of England during the first eight months of this...
Confidence levels for firms across the West of England have fallen on the back of lower sales, fewer new jobs and worsening cashflow, according to the results of Business West’s latest survey. The figures, released this week, show how susceptible the region is to shifts in the world economy, said James Durie of Business...
More than 80 of the South West’s top clinicians, academics and businesses attended the launch of a membership group tasked with stimulating the growth of the region’s life science industry. Medilink South West provides knowledge and support to businesses in the key sector, helping them grow and maximise opportunities within life sciences and healthcare....
Plans for first 275 new homes on Bath’s former Foxhill MoD site – now known as Mulberry Park – have been been given the green light. Curo, the Bath-based housing organisation, wants to build 700 energy-efficient homes on the 48-acre development – 30% of which will be for social rent or shared ownership. The site...
Half-year profits have soared by 67% at Good Energy, the Chippenham-based renewable power firm, as more customers join it from the Big Six utility firms. Customer numbers shot up by more than a third during the six months to June 30, lifting revenues by 46% to £32.6m. As a result, pre-tax profits came in...
Bath and Bristol’s future as a vibrant business centre will be debated by three of the region’s leading business women at the UK’s biggest gathering of female business owners next month. They will take as their starting point the creation of a so-called Western Powerhouse to unite the region and claw back vital powers...
Bath-based community-business connector Neighbourly has become one of the founding UK members of the B Corporation, a global scheme that identifies socially responsible business. Neighbourly, which links community projects with companies that want to make a difference, helped launch B Corporation yesterday with a group of like-minded businesses. B Corporation aims is to do...
Bath businesses are being urged to back a multi-million pound bid to the Government to boost the use of green transport across the West of England. The region’s four local authorities, including Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES), are preparing a bid for up to £11m from the Office of Low Emission Vehicles which...
Sustainability is firmly on the agenda for 80% of West of England boardrooms with nearly a third considering it one of their business’s top three priorities, according to an exclusive survey conducted by executive search firm Moon Consulting and Bath Business News. Just 5% are not currently engaged in sustainability activities or do not...
