Green/sustainable business

Small firms offered free meeting space at Bath hotel to help them bounce back from impact of Covid

June 3, 2021
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Small firms offered free meeting space at Bath hotel to help them bounce back from impact of Covid

A Bath hotel is offering free use of its meeting rooms to small businesses, charities and community groups as they look ahead to life after Covid-related restrictions. The Apex hotel on James Street West, along with nine others in the Apex group, this week launched its ‘Help in Hand’ initiative offering complimentary use of...

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Green business grants can make saving cash and energy child’s play

June 2, 2021
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Green business grants can make saving cash and energy child’s play

Bath’s small and medium-sized businesses are being urged to take advantage of grants which can make them greener while also saving them money. But they need to hurry as applications for the grants close on June 25. The Green Business Grant scheme is run by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), which covers Bath...

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Get set to go wild: The UK’s largest free celebration of nature returns to Bath

June 1, 2021
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Get set to go wild: The UK’s largest free celebration of nature returns to Bath

The Festival of Nature, the biggest free event of its kind in the country, comes back in Bath and Bristol this weekend after a reduced programme last year. The week-long festival, which runs from this Saturday, June 5, to the following Saturday, will include a multitude of virtual and in-person events along with the...

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From unloved office basement to UK’s best staff cycling facility, thanks to Bath engineers

May 28, 2021
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From unloved office basement to UK’s best staff cycling facility, thanks to Bath engineers

Bath-headquartered global engineering consultancy Buro Happold has helped transform the basement of a 1970s Bristol office block into the UK’s highest-rated employee cycle area. Castlemead, at 18-storeys Bristol’s tallest commercial building, is undergoing a £2.1m refurbishment, partly to prepare it for a commuting revolution likely to be sparked by the introduction of the city’s Clean Air...

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‘Best Companies To Work For’ recognition for green energy suppliers and housing firm

May 28, 2021
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‘Best Companies To Work For’ recognition for green energy suppliers and housing firm

Three Bath area firms have been named among the best companies to work for in the South West. The UK’s first digital green energy supplier Pure Planet and housing group Curo – both based in Bath – and Chippenham-based Good Energy, also a renewable energy firm, are included in the latest Best Company to...

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Art trail will use empty stores to offer window into the world of wildlife’s rapid decline

May 27, 2021
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Art trail will use empty stores to offer window into the world of wildlife’s rapid decline

An art trail displaying paintings, sculptures and photography in empty shop windows on the theme of nature and climate change is to launch next week to coincide with World Environment Day. The Trowbridge Windows on Nature trail will highlight the devastating fact that a quarter of British mammals are at risk of extinction and 80%...

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Major programme to help Bath firms develop low-carbon and sustainable technology

May 27, 2021
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Major programme to help Bath firms develop low-carbon and sustainable technology

A business support programme showing how small and medium-sized firms can benefit from sustainable innovation has been launched by world-leading business incubator SETsquared and the University of Bath. The three-year programme, which has been funded by the European Regional Development and available for firms based in the West of England, is aimed at firms...

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Grant Associates to help major West London regeneration project take shape

May 27, 2021
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Grant Associates to help major West London regeneration project take shape

Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates, which last week unveiled its design for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, has been appointed to a major regeneration scheme also in West London. The long-anticipated waterfront Brentford Project aims to revitalise the suburb’s centre and establish a new retail, leisure and culinary scene, building on its rich...

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WHO recognition for Bath Uni research group helping expose global tobacco industry tactics

May 25, 2021
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WHO recognition for Bath Uni research group helping expose global tobacco industry tactics

A University of Bath research group that has helped alter attitudes towards the global tobacco industry and drive changes in government policies has been recognised for its work by the director-general of the World Health Organization. The Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) has exposed the industry’s attempts to weaken, block and delay tobacco control...

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From full fat to full fibre: Truespeed dishes up reliable broadband to Yeo Valley

May 25, 2021
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From full fat to full fibre: Truespeed dishes up reliable broadband to Yeo Valley

Britain’s largest organic dairy brand Yeo Valley is benefitting from an ultra-fast, ultra-reliable full-fibre broadband service across its multiple rural sites thanks to Bath-based broadband provider Truespeed. Family-owned Yeo Valley, best known for its range of organic yogurts, previously relied on no slow, unreliable copper (ADSL) phone lines for its broadband needs.  Now, after...

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