Business West, the region’s largest business group, has been certified as a B Corporation, joining an elite, forward-looking global community that balances profit with people and the planet. The B Corp movement encourages organisations to take an ethical approach to business to make a positive difference in the world. To gain its certification, businesses...
More than £1m has been pledged by businesses and organisations across the West of England from their unused apprenticeship levy funds to help people in the region develop new skills. The funds have gone to the Share to Support scheme, which was launched earlier this year to create vital apprenticeships for individuals and boost...
The South West’s key sectors could suffer irreparable damage unless the government starts to tackle the shortage of workers by easing EU visa restrictions, the region’s business leaders today warned. But even providing temporary visas for jobs such as drivers and food workers would only be a short-term measure and ministers must also come...
Small firms based in the Mendip area that have been hit by the pandemic or Brexit are being urged to apply for revitalisation grants of up to £20,000 before the deadline in less than two weeks. The grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 are available to businesses in the area covered by Mendip District...
A programme designed to break down barriers and support more disabled people into work is being launched in Bath and across the West of England. Some 100 businesses will receive tailored, targeted disability inclusion training to help them create a more diverse workforce. The project, part of the Workforce for the Future programme, is...
Two Bath area firms have been named among the 50 fastest-growing e-commerce brands of the ‘pandemic era’. Sales at Frome-based The Regency Chess Company moved ahead by 217% through 2019 and 2020 while they climbed by 199% at specialist ladder company Henchman, based at Seend, near Melksham. The two appear in the Lightning 50,...
TEDxBath returns in November with a two-day evening event that will seek to explore how communities can thrive through the endless possibilities of local and global inter-connections. Talk topics at Inter-Connected will range from healthcare in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic to harnessing the learnings from Black Lives Matter for a connected future. ...
Bath Film Office’s behind-the-scenes role in mega-successful TV period drama Bridgerton has been recognised by being shortlisted in major industry award. The small team in the office, which is run by Bath & North East Somerset Council, worked with the Bridgerton production crew on road closures, street furniture removal, street lighting removal and parking to enable...
SETsquared, the globally acclaimed, University of Bath-supported business incubator, has expanded with the addition of Cardiff University. Cardiff has become the sixth member of the partnership, which has been named three times as the world’s number one university business incubator. SETsquared was set up in 2002 by a small group of research-intensive universities in...
New University of Bath students are to be the first in the UK to get the chance to learn about the environmental impact of their everyday activities such as travel and eating habits, along with how they can reduce it. The university said carbon literacy will now form part of the traditional annual induction...
