Art collectors flocked to Bath this week as the city’s Minerva’s Owls public sculpture trail came to a successful end with a charity auction that raised nearly £140,000. Bidding on the 61 owls took place in a room of hundreds of excited buyers, as well as online – which allowed fans from around the...
Bath-based wealth management firm Novia Financial has officially launched its charity foundation with a glamorous inaugural fundraising event at the Roman Baths. The Mayor of Bath Patrick Anketell-Jones and more than 100 dignitaries joined the Novia Foundation’s trustees to celebrate its launch. The foundation is primarily supporting projects that aim to improve and help...
Five businesses based in Bath or with interests in the city are showing their support for local carers by sponsoring the BANES Carers’ Centre annual awards night. Bath-headquartered housing association Curo, law firm Mogers Drewett, print chain Minuteman Press, Gerrard Financial Consulting, based at Blagdon, near Bristol, and Bluebird Care, one of the UK’s...
Fitness and lifestyle firm Bath Nordic Walking has appointed highly experienced fitness coach and author Yvonne Bignall as an instructor, allowing it to double the number of classes it offers in the city. Yvonne, pictured, who joins existing instructor Sarah Lillywhite, has started two new hour-long Nordic walks in Royal Victoria Park. Nordic walking is one of...
Richard Buckley, chef-proprietor of Bath vegan restaurant Acorn has been named as the UK’s leading ‘veggie pioneer’ in the Chef Awards. Staged by olive, the upmarket food magazine, the inaugural awards recognise the “unheralded chefs who have been quietly excelling in the background”. Olive praises Richard, pictured, for cooking “good food that just so...
Bath-based housing association Curo’s director of tenancy services Sarah Seeger has won a prestigious national award thanks to her influential work on reshaping the government’s controversial Universal Credit benefit measures. Sarah, pictured, won the Professional of the Year category at the Women in Housing Awards, run by the Chartered Institute of Housing and Inside...
Bath’s independent tourism businesses are battling international online operators and promoting themselves – and the city – through a new collaborative scheme that also aims to boost the local economy. StayinBath.org has been launched by BIGHA, the Bath Independent Guest House Association, the voluntary membership organisation made up of more than 100 guesthouses,...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs is staged in the West of England this week for its seventh year to once again support women to build and grow sustainable businesses. Hundreds of women self-starters are expected to attend the day-long event in Bristol this Friday, October 19, to hear, learn from and be inspired by...
Bath businesses can learn how to expand and win more customers at a series of free training events in the city organised by the business growth consultancy Cool Ventures. The workshops are open to businesses that enrol on the Bath Business Support Programme, which is delivered by Cool Ventures. The programme provides free, intensive...
Specialist energy management firm SMARTech energy has appointed Abhiram Mokasdar as lead energy consultant to support its growth ambitions. Abhiram, pictured, completed his master’s degree in mechanical engineering in the US and joins Corsham-based SMARTech energy from India-based DRA Consultants, where he was the senior mechanical engineer working within India’s energy and water...
