Bath architecture firm Aaron Evans has won a regional ‘building excellence’ award for a pair of cottages in Newton St Loe – the first family homes to be built in the village since 1949. The design topped the Best Small New Housing Development category in the Local Authority Building Control (LABC) West of England...
Bath brand agency The House is encouraging other city-based firms to back the campaign to turn Bath City FC into a community-owned club after committing £1,000 to buy shares. Nearly £109,000 of the £750,000 funding target has been raised so far for the Big Bath City Bid, which aims to transform the debt-laden club...
Bath-based PR agency Geometry has secured two new clients to join its increasingly locally focussed client portfolio. Interaction of Bath and Guyers House Hotel follow the addition of Clarks Village, MF Freeman and the Chippenham BID this year to Geometry’s stable. Milsom Street-based InterAction of Bath was founded in 1991 by Dr David Usher...
Motion capture technology pioneered by the visual entertainment industry will be harnessed to help improve prosthetic limbs for amputees and training of elite athletes in a new research centre based at the University of Bath. The studio for the new £5m Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research & Applications (CAMERA) at the...
The House, the Bath-based brand agency, has helped Bath College develop a new vision for a ‘campus of the future’. The House staged a strategy workshop, held at the headquarters of organic diary brand Yeo Valley, which brought together Bath College with a range of local businesses and organisations, including marketers, social enterprises, entrepreneurs,...
Bott, the workplace storage equipment firm, and Devon Air Ambulance Trust have won the PWC Business of the Year Awards – the South West’s most coveted business accolades. Bude-based Bott’s CEO Clive Woodward received his trophy for the £30m-plus turnover category from Mark Beard, chief executive of last year's winner, Swindon construction firm Beard....
Bath-based brand agency The House has developed the overarching concept and design executions for the University of Bath’s £66m fundraising campaign, launched to mark its 50th anniversary. The new concept – Help Us To Look Further – was inspired by the university’s ground-breaking research achievements as well as Bath’s scientific heritage, which includes the...
Key points from the Budget: New National Living Wage of £7.20 for all workers aged over 25 to be introduced next April and to reach £9 an hour by 2020 Cuts in National Insurance for small firms to help them pay for living wage More devolution to Northern cities and to Midlands as well...
Confidence among West of England firms remains fragile despite a period of strong growth, according to the latest survey by Business West. The organisation, which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, said the findings showed the need for the new Government to act to encourage sustainable growth. There was also a danger of further uncertainty...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week Linda Donaldson, managing director of Bath public relations firm Geometry PR, answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Blind Side – I love this film about...
