Bath’s Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa is to celebrate midsummer with a five-course twilight supper in its magical gardens – with all proceeds donated to the city’s Julian House homeless charity. The evening, created in conjunction with Bath eating-out ‘bible’ The Pig Guide, will include music, champagne and a five-course menu that embraces English...
Interiors brand Neptune today threw open the doors of its first instore café having chosen Bath as the launchpad based on its reputation as a “city of foodies”. The Provenist forms part of Neptune’s Walcot Street showroom in what was originally the city’s tramshed. The café, which flies the flag for local food producers,...
The organisers of TEDxBath are seeking inspirational speakers for this year’s event to explore its chosen theme of Echoes of the City from “unusual, exciting and provocative perspectives”. They are also looking to sign up sponsors from among the city’s business community. TEDx, which brings the spirit of TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design) to...
Businesses across Bath and North East Somerset have signed up to take part in the area’s annual summer volunteering scheme. Employees have pledged to devote time to help out in the community with a wide range of activities ranging from painting, gardening and reading to packing water survival boxes. The annual community challenges are...
Gerraint Oakley, managing director of Bath-based housing firm Curo’s housebuilding business, is cycling around 1,000 miles from John O’Groats to Land’s End in a bid to raise £5,000 for the Royal United Hospital (RUH) children’s ward. The iconic ‘end-to-end’ journey will take nine days, with Gerraint setting off from John O’Groats on Friday July...
The Prince’s Trust has appointed Andrew Billingham as chair of its South West Development Committee (SWDC). Andrew, who is managing director of YTL Arena Bristol, has been SWDC vice-chair for four years. He will take over from Mike Beesley, the CEO of Bristol-based recruitment group RSG who set up the SWDC in 2015. The...
Finance giant Legal & General is to launch a pioneering retirement village concept in Bath in a move it says will go some way to easing the city’s housing crisis linked to its ageing population. L&G has bought the 4.5-hectare former Homebase site off Pines Way from owner British Land in a £13.5m deal...
Bath-based ecological consultancy Biocensus, which supplies experts for major infrastructure projects such as new railway lines, has been acquired by a fast-growing environmental and engineering consultancy in what it described as a “game-changing” move for the fast-growing sector. The takeover by RSK Group means Biocensus, which supplies experts in subjects such as protected species...
Ethical tea firm Pukka Herbs’ Keynsham head office has been named as one of the best workplaces in the South of England. Judges for the annual British Council for Offices' (BCO) regional awards described Herb House – part of the former Cadbury’s chocolate factory development at Somerdale – as having “restorative, relaxing and playful...
The future of Bath Youth Hostel has been secured for the next generation of visitors to the city through a £2.55m investment – the largest ever in the South West by leading youth charity YHA (England and Wales). The funding has transformed the main Youth Hostel building – a Grade II-listed Italian-style mansion Bathwick...
