Bath’s Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa has become the first hotel in the South West to achieve a prestigious accreditation for environmental responsibility. The Green Key Award was presented to the 45-bedroom hotel, pictured, following a rigorous sustainability assessment which looked at factors ranging from the water flow in guest bedrooms to the kitchen’s...
Bath strategic workplace design company Interaction is hosting a special online event next week with international law firm Osborne Clarke to address the challenges facing employers as they strive to lower their environmental impact and improve employee wellbeing. Interaction has designed Osborne Clarke’s new flagship Bristol office with the aim of promoting staff health...
The University of Bath’s world-leading automotive research centre is now up and running following the handover of the building from its contractor. The £70m, 11,300 sq m Institute of Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS), pictured, on the Bristol & Bath Science Park will now ramps up its operations as a global centre of excellence...
The founder of a communications consultancy that specialises in promoting purpose-driven companies and charities has been named as one of the PR sector’s top practitioners. Ben Veal, pictured, launched Holt-based Second Mountain Comms during the first national lockdown with a mission to help good people to do good by sharing their values and accomplishments...
Bath-based PR agency Clearly has bolstered its senior leadership team with the appointment of James Gwinnett as an associate director. James, pictured, joins after two years heading communications for 87% – a technology start-up with a mission to improve corporate mental health. Having helped guide 87% through the pandemic, he worked on a £1.5m...
The South West’s first manufacturing plant for sustainable green hydrogen is to be opened by the University of Bath as it strengthens its position as a leading research body into alternative low carbon fuels. The plant is to be sited at the university’s new £70m motor industry global centre of excellence, which aims to...
Bath businesses are being encouraged to try out electric cargo bikes for local deliveries as part of a free scheme to reduce the number of journeys made by fossil-fuelled vehicles in the city. The e-cargo Bike scheme, which is run and funded by Bath & North East Somerset Council, offers businesses, including retailers, as...
Electric Bear Brewing Company, Bath’s only craft brewery, is to launch a special beer to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee that will also raise funds for a tree-planting scheme linked to the celebrations. The brewery will donate 30p from the sale of each can of the Treetops English Pale Ale to the Queen’s Green...
Ambitious plans to transform part of Bath city centre by attracting creative industries and relocating its Fashion Museum have been revealed. A masterplan for the area, led by Bath & North East Somerset Council and funded by the West of England Combined Authority, details how the ‘top of the town’ could become a nationally...
Renewable power group Good Energy is to go head-to-head against some of the consumer industry’s top brands in the battle for a prestigious Which? Award. The Chippenham-based Good Energy will line up in the inaugural Sustainability Champion of the Year category of the awards against German domestic appliance giant Miele and Silver Cross, the Yorkshire-headquartered iconic pram manufacturer....
