Some of Bath’s most historic buildings are to get fresh investment to attract more visitors under a government heritage scheme. Bath Preservation Trust, which operates four visitor attractions including No.1 Royal Crescent, pictured, has received just under £445,000 from the government’s Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage to help it face the ongoing challenges...
A scheme set up to bridge the digital divide by getting laptops to schools, charities and individuals who do not have access to technology has celebrated sending out 1,000 devices. Wiltshire Digital Drive was born from the success of a laptop recycling project started by Westbury-based Priority IT during lockdown. The scheme recycled...
Bath landscape architecture practice Grant Associates is to help turn the Tower of London’s moat into a vibrant sea of more than 20m flowers to help celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next year. The ‘Superbloom’ project, one of scores across the country to mark 70 years since the Queen came to the throne, will transform the moat...
Women who have a job interview but no appropriate outfit to wear to it can get help from a new Bath charity. First Impressions has been set up by Dr Jane Ellis-Brush, a lecturer in the University of Bath’s School of Management, with the aim of opening up a range of high-quality workwear...
Business people with strong networking experience and the credibility to champion the region are being sought by the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to join its business board. The LEP is looking to appoint new board members to help shape a brighter, greener future for the West of England’s residents. The LEP...
Bath businesses are partnering with the police, banking sector and specialists to spearhead a new crackdown on fraud in the South West. They have come together to re-launch the South West Fraud Forum (SWFF), which is dedicated to helping prevent businesses and individuals becoming victims of the crime. The organisation will be holding regular...
A revolutionary smartphone safety app that harnesses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to recognise distress in its user’s activity has been created by a team at University of Bath. The Epowar app, trials of which started this week, monitors a wearer’s heart rate and body motion. When changes in these are detected it automatically sends an emergency...
A previously empty shop in Bath city centre has been transformed to give it a unique double life. On weekdays the unit on New Bond Street, previously occupied by giftware firm Bloomsbury, is used as Bath & North East Somerset Council’s commercial property letting hub while at the weekends becomes a festive pop-up...
A new website to attract tourists to Bath is offering more space to promote the city’s hospitality and leisure businesses along with a host of new features. Launched by Visit Bath, the city’s destination marketing organisation, visitbath.co.uk also gives more prominence to Bath’s unique, year-round visitor attractions under the heading of The Original...
Leading lights in Bath’s higher education, innovation and research communities are being invited to apply for posts representing the sectors on the board of the Western Gateway as it starts to ramp up its work. The gateway is the cross-border economic partnership of eight cities either side of the River Severn, including Bath. The...
