A child-friendly ‘netwalking’ group for female freelancers is to launch in Bath later this month. The Freelance Mum hub, which will be run by branding-focused graphic designer Lucie Gray and Jody Sparey, who is a freelance product compliance manager, follows the success of the first group, set up 10 years ago in Bristol. That...
Organisations need a diversity of views to be relevant and effective, the former Director General of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller told West of England business leaders last night. Speaking at the ICAEW regional annual business dinner, Baroness Manningham-Buller, pictured, drew on her experiences leading the service through significant change, expansion and scrutiny as it dealt with the...
A rebound in its European markets and continued growth in others gave Bath-headquartered spectacles designer and manufacturer Inspecs a positive end to 2022, with its chief executive describing it as a year of two halves. The group, which produces a wide range of spectacle frames and lenses, including sunglasses and safety glasses, for markets...
A fast-growing digital transformation and software specialist has had its head office redesigned and enlarged by workspace design company Interaction - calling it an oasis of creativity and collaboration. Amdaris, widely recognised as one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech companies, called in interaction to shape its new Bristol headquarters in the city’s flagship Aurora office development after outgrowing its previous space in...
Bath area firms are being urged to join more than 125 firms across the UK that have already signed a pledge to never support or promote blood sports such as hunting or shooting. The plea has come from West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris, who is also chair of the League Against Cruel...
Bath-based full-fibre broadband provider Truespeed has connected its 150th community organisation – for free. The firm, launched in Bath in 2014 as a community interest company, offers a ‘free broadband for life’ promise to community venues or schools when it expands into an area. It has now connected 40 schools and 110 community hubs, giving...
A documentary film made by a team from the University of Bath is in the running for a national education award. Cobalt Rush, which highlights the challenges faced by cobalt miners working in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been shortlisted in the Best Educational Film (in-house production) category of the Learning on Screen Awards. ...
Bath-based landscape architecture practice Grant Associates has promoted 10 long-standing and valued members of its team in recognition of their exemplary performance. The environmentally-focused business, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, is best known as the lead designer of the iconic Gardens by the Bay attraction in Singapore, and also oversaw the Superbloom transformation of...
Bath-based property firm Rengen has started developing the final phase of a major scheme in Bristol that has become a magnet for businesses in the city’s burgeoning creative sector. The work at Paintworks is on course to finish this summer, bringing more commercial and public space and nearly 100 new homes to the highly successful mixed-use development....
Bath’s five-star Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa has relaunched its Montagu’s Mews restaurant and bar with an emphasis on local produce and sustainability – including ditching glass beer bottles in favour of aluminium cans. The 45-bedroom Georgian hotel & spa, owned by London-based investment group Topland, describes the new look as making the restaurant a “modern,...
