Four Bath Spa University students have collaborated with Somerset Wildlife Trust to create a powerful video raising awareness of ash dieback, the fatal fungal disease ravaging woodlands across the UK and Europe. From filming, to sound and editing, BA (Hons) Creative Media students Caitlin Bancroft, Elizaveta Stoliarova, Rebecca Lomas and Kiana West worked on the live...
The hidden makers of Bath – the city’s modern-day creatives, craftspeople, engineers and innovators – are being celebrated on a new website and series of podcasts. The site – madeinbath.co.uk – has been produced by Bath-based brand and design studio Mytton Williams, following its 2018 book, also called Made in Bath, pictured, which showcased...
It is sadly inevitable that this year’s staff Christmas parties will not be the usual get-togethers and businesses will, no doubt, already be looking at more inventive ways to have a festive celebration, be it virtual or with individual gifts, etc. writes Pearson May partner Matthew Rutter. From online cookery classes, virtual pantomimes and streaming...
A marketing consultancy specialising in working for businesses that focus on delivering sustainability has published a report on its own climate action. Content Coms’ annual Creative Climate Disclosure report, the second it has produced, shows that just 1.6% of its turnover comes from a carbon-intensive industry – a reduction on the 4.6% in last...
Given the unprecedented challenges all businesses have faced over the past six months, there is no doubt that 2021 is going to be an important year. Add to this the UK leaving the EU on December 31 and the uncertainty of more lockdowns and for many businesses 2021 could be a make or break year....
Bath’s Tier 2 restrictions when it comes out of the national lockdown next week will have a “chilling impact” on its economy, with much of its hospitality sector remaining “frozen” in the vital run-up to Christmas, business groups have warned. Bath Chamber of Commerce group Business West said despite having escaped being put in...
Bath’s acquisition-hungry media group Future has hit the takeover trail again with a near £600m offer for the firm behind the Co Compare website. The £594m cash-and-shares offer, which has been accepted by GoCo Group’s board, was revealed on the same day that Future posted a 300% increase in annual pre-tax profits to £52m on sales...
Bath independent stationery retailer and printer Meticulous Ink is in the running for a major national award that champions the UK’s best creative small businesses. Meticulous Ink, which was opened 10 years ago by designer Athena Cauley-Yu, sells a range of stationery and paper goods, calligraphy pens and inks as well as offering a...
Bath is to be promoted as a prime location for international conferences, meetings and events at one of the top exhibitions for the global events industry as its key players look beyond Covid-19 to make bookings. The annual IBTM World in Barcelona attracts a worldwide audience of conference, events and incentive travel planners. Although...
The award-winning Trading Through Brexit service run by Business West has been relaunched to help companies make crucial last-minute adjustments to the way they operate ahead of the end of the UK-EU transition period. Regardless of whether or not a deal is reached between UK and EU negotiators ahead of deadline on December 31,...
