The government must set out an immediate plan to spur economic recovery, including helping firms pay their spiralling energy bills and easing restrictions on employing overseas workers. The call has come from Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, which fears more firms will be forced to close down unless ministers take action now. ...
TEDxBath has announced the line-up for its biggest ever event, with up to 1,600 attendees and 12-plus speakers ranging in age from 12 to 82 focused on changing perspectives through mind-opening talks. Organisers of the event on 15 October in The Forum said the aim is to leave a lasting impact on the city...
Good Energy, the 100% renewable electricity supplier and energy services provider, has invested a further £3.7m in electric vehicle charge point mapping app Zap-Map to fuel more growth and steer it towards international expansion. Chippenham-headquartered Good Energy’s funding has been made alongside £5.3m from US fuel card and payment giant Fleetcor. Good Energy first...
Bath firms are being invited to put their mental mettle to the test in one of city’s longest-running charity events – Julian House’s annual corporate fundraising quiz. Now in its 21st year, the event will feature up to 24 teams battling it out to answer challenging and fun questions for the coveted Brain of...
Interaction, the Bath-based strategic workplace design and build company, has become a climate positive business after removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than it put in over the past year. Interaction, which has been creating workplaces for ambitious organisations across the South West since 1992, offset 110% of the carbon it generated last year...
The University of Bath is to start commercial production of a viable alternative to palm oil that could help reduce the huge environmental damage caused by its extraction. UK-based food-tech business Clean Food Group has set up a dedicated laboratory and pilot plant at the university following the acquisition of intellectual property (IP) developed over the...
Mohammed Saddiq, executive director of operations at Bath-based Wessex Water, is to be the next Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset. He will take over from Annie Maw CVO when she retires at the end of October and says he is “greatly looking forward giving something back to the country which has given me so much”. Mr...
An ambitious project calling for homes being built in Bath and across the West of England to be high quality, well-designed and affordable has been launched. The Placemaking Charter will bring together the region’s councils, including Bath & North East Somerset, and other public authorities, developers, communities and partners under a shared ambition to...
Grant Associates, the Bath-based international landscape architecture practice, has strengthened its commitment to supporting environmental and social change for the better by becoming a corporate partner of Rainforest Concern, the city-based charity. Rainforest Concern has helped protect more than 5m acres of rainforest since it was founded 28 years ago, with a wide range...
Second Mountain Comms, the Bath-founded ethically driven PR consultancy, has a refreshed its brand identity and move to new studio premises to mark two years in business. The specialist agency was launched by chartered PR practitioner Ben Veal in July 2020 after he unexpectedly lost his job in the wake of the UK’s first lockdown. ...
