The boss of the Bath landscape architecture practice behind a special ‘Queen’s Garden’ at the Tower of London marking Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee has spoken of his pride at masterminding the project. Grant Associates led on the ‘Superbloom’ visitor experience for Historic Royal Palaces, which owns the Tower. The project, pictured, involved sowing 20m seeds in...
Business leaders are urging the government to continue to invest in the West of England amid signals its ‘levelling-up’ agenda is switching spending to other areas of the country as the economy falters. The plea has come from Business West, the organisation that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, and follows a shock economic forecast...
Bath strategic workplace design company Interaction is hosting a special online event next week with international law firm Osborne Clarke to address the challenges facing employers as they strive to lower their environmental impact and improve employee wellbeing. Interaction has designed Osborne Clarke’s new flagship Bristol office with the aim of promoting staff health...
Bath-based financial services firm Novia has played a key role in helping Bath City FC achieve it goal of setting up a new women’s team. The firm, a long-running backer of Bath Rugby, has agreed to be the founding sponsor of the team, which will wear the club’s famous black-and-white striped kit and play...
Two Bath hotels and a pioneering firm running food tours of the city, have been named among the best in England in the national hospitality industry’s most-prestigious awards scheme. The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa was voted the best large hotel while No 15 by GuestHouse Bath came second in the small hotel category...
The founder of a communications consultancy that specialises in promoting purpose-driven companies and charities has been named as one of the PR sector’s top practitioners. Ben Veal, pictured, launched Holt-based Second Mountain Comms during the first national lockdown with a mission to help good people to do good by sharing their values and accomplishments...
Bath’s independent hotels, guest houses, shops and cafes could benefit from around £50m in additional revenue if visitors booked direct rather than through major websites, according to tourist chiefs. They are spearheading a campaign to promote the city’s independent tourism and hospitality businesses while also making sure their own websites can compete against online...
The Roman Baths’ new state-of-the-art learning centre is to open next month – the second boost to the city’s visitor economy in as many months. Based in a former Victorian spa laundry building – along with an area of Roman remains beneath street level – the Roman Baths Clore Learning Centre will allow pre-booked school and...
Bath Spa University has achieved its best-ever results in a UK-wide assessment of the quality and impact of academic research. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) takes place every six or seven years. Since the previous assessment in 2014, the amount of Bath Spa’s research achieving the highest status of ‘world leading’ has increased by...
Digital learning and development company RTS Group is looking to accelerate its post-pandemic growth after securing financial support from regional alternative lender SWIG Finance. The agency, based at Notton, near Lacock, uses data insights to create bespoke learning and development services to enable businesses across the world upskill their workforces. Pre-pandemic, RTS typically...
