A wooden furniture business founded by two friends with a shared passion for their craft has received external validation of its sustainability status in a timber industry certification scheme. Forest to Home gained the accreditation through the Grown in Britain (GIB) Chain of Custody Certification programme, which provides validation of the origin of timber...
Bath’s first ultra-energy efficient homes are on course to be opened next month by city-based housing association and housebuilder Curo. Curo is building the four Passivhaus-certified houses, pictured, at its 700-home Mulberry Park development on the former Foxhill MoD site on the outskirts of Bath. The three-bedroom homes, which form part of a pilot scheme, will be...
Researchers at the University of Bath are to work with engineers from luxury carmaker Bentley Motors on a three-year study that promises to transform electric vehicles. The project, which will be among the first to be undertaken in the university’s new £70m state-of-art automotive research centre scheduled to open next year, aims to develop...
1pm, the Bath-based specialist small business lender, has stepped in to support a tyre recycling firm with a £100,000 facility under the government-backed coronavirus loan initiative. The financial support for AC Tyres, which offers sustainable tyre disposal services across the UK, is the latest loan arranged by 1pm under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan...
The first speakers have been announced for this year’s TEDxBath as its organisers vow to go ahead with the event in October. International bestselling writer and renegade economist Kate Raworth, creative strategist Dan Burgess and Royal United Hospital director of intensive care Dr Andy Georgiou are to speak at what will be the third...
The latest edition of Smith & Williamson’s Enterprise leadership publication profiles Tessa Clarke, Bath-based co-founder & CEO of OLIO. The world has a food waste problem: up to half of the food produced globally is never eaten, equivalent to more than $1trillion dollars-worth. That could readily feed the 800m people across the globe without enough food to live on,...
Practical ideas on how businesses can continue to support charities during the coronavirus pandemic are to be aired at a webinar hosted by Quartet, the community foundation for the West of England. The third sector is facing its toughest time for a generation with hundreds of thousands of people needing support just as charities’...
A University of Bath student has won a top prize for in a competition on how to tackle Earth’s problems from space. Henry Shepherd was awarded the accolade by the UK Space Agency (UKSA), which had asked for imaginative ideas to combat global and local problems using space. Henry, a physics undergraduate about to...
Bumper sales of its cannabinoid (CBD) hand sanitiser helped give medical cannabis company Sativa, the firm behind the Goodbody Wellness retail chain, a record month for revenues in June. The firm, based at Beckington, near Frome, shrugged off the high street meltdown caused by the coronavirus lockdown as consumers and corporate buyers snapped up...
Bath charity Julian House is calling on the city’s businesses to join it in stepping out and standing up against homelessness at its annual Circuit of Bath Walk. Taking place on Sunday September 27, the sponsored circular walk will be the only fundraising event that Julian House, Bath’s main homeless help charity, stages this...
