Bath Building Society has been awarded the FairLife Mark for Mortgages and Cash Savings in recognition of its ethical approach to business. The FairLife Mark represents a new fair trading initiative for the finance industry. It recognises organisations that price honestly and trade fairly with their customers and raises money to promote financial education...
Bristol Airport has said it will become carbon neutral later this year by hitting targets it originally expected to reach in 2025 – setting it up to gain the title of the UK’s first net zero airport by 2030. Bosses said three key commitments to be a net zero airfield, with net zero buildings...
West of England business’s confidence in the economy has bounced back for the first time in four years, according to a new survey, but there are growing fears that the recovery will be choked off by a lack of skilled workers. The latest quarterly economic survey conducted by Business West, the region’s largest business...
Bath’s trailblazing Clean Air Zone is already helping rid the city’s streets of polluting vehicles just 100 days after it was introduced, according to Bath & North East Somerset Council. The scheme, launched on March 15 as the first charging clean air zone (CAZ) outside London, aims to urgently tackle harmful levels of air...
Public relations consultancy Clearly has launched a project for young people to help businesses in its home city of Bath tackle climate change and increase positive social impact. In what it believes is the first venture of its kind for a UK PR firm, Clearly has committed £5,000 to fund the research, development and...
Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates is to lead the design work for a new public open space that will be the centrepiece of the groundbreaking Brabazon development in North Bristol. The largest new urban public park to be created in the South West for 50 years, the six-hectare Brabazon Park, pictured, will be...
Bath-based Wessex Water has been named as the top performing water and sewerage company in a survey of customer ratings. The customer measure of experience (C-MeX) was introduced by industry watchdog Ofwat last year to assess how both customers and the wider public rate each company. Wessex Water’s C-MeX score came from two independent...
The University of Bath’s soon-to-open £70m motor industry global centre of excellence is to collaborate with the world’s largest automotive testing firm to help put the low-carbon car of the future on the road. The pioneering Institute of Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS), now under construction on the Bristol & Bath Science Park, has...
Bath businesses are being asked for their views on the changing work patterns of their employees to help gauge post-Covid transport needs. Independent research has been commissioned by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), which includes Bath and North East Somerset, into the ways firms across the region plan to use their workplaces...
Investment by foreign businesses into the South West rose last year despite the pandemic in contrast to a fall for the UK as a whole. According to a new report by accountancy group EY, the South West achieved a 6.7% increase in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects in 2020 – up by two to...
