Just as we were entering the second national lockdown, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a five-month extension to the current Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and increased the level of the next self-employed income support grant, writes Pearson May partner Matthew Rutter. The Chancellor told the House of Commons that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) will...
Media planning and buying agency Mostly Media has been appointed by greeting card marketplace thortful.com to manage its offline media planning and buying. Thortful supports a community of designers, illustrators and photographers who create unique cards, most of which cannot be found anywhere else. Its head of offline advertising Alexandra Tooher described Mostly Media,...
Destination marketing organisation Visit Bath has vowed to try to stage some of its planned pre-Christmas programme once the city emerges from the second national lockdown in early December. The rising tide of Covid-19 cases across the country – including in Bath, where it has now become higher than the national average for the...
Developers behind the UK’s first ‘urban later living community’ planned for Bath are future proofing the scheme in the light of the coronavirus crisis. Guild Living said changes to the development – which it wants to build on the former Homebase site off Pines Way – will help combat the spread of infectious diseases,...
A group of firms from the Bath area are hoping to secure lucrative business deals by taking part in the city’s first virtual trade missions to Mexico and Chile. Organised by the Department for International Trade (DIT) and led by Sarah Hildersley, DIT’s market specialist for Latin America in the region, the missions include...
The Institute of Directors South West has named Robert Lloyd Griffiths OBE as its new regional director, replacing Simon Face, who had been in the post since 2003. Robert, pictured, will perform the South West job alongside his existing role as the IoD’s national director for Wales, a position he has held since 2009. He...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has welcomed the latest extension to the governments’ furlough scheme, but urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to come up longer-term measures to protect firms. Mr Sunak, pictured, this afternoon announced the furlough scheme would now run until the end of March, with the Treasury continuing to pay 80% of...
A Bath charity that has distributed food and clothes to hundreds of families in need in the city during the coronavirus pandemic has called on councillors to back a planning application that would give it a permanent home. Mercy In Action has been based in the Jubilee Centre – formerly known as the Hollis...
Ensuring that the growing need for cybersecurity matches the needs of society are to be addressed in a ground-breaking £3.5m research hub set up by University of Bath. The DiScriBe Hub+ will look at how the gap between digital security and society can be bridged in an era of ever-increasing risk of hacking threats...
The new lockdown measures announced will be devastating to many Bath firms despite their best efforts to make themselves Covid-safe, the region’s largest business organisation has warned. Most businesses were forced to close yesterday as the country entered its second lockdown, with staff being urged to work from home where they can. Non-essential shops...
