The National Trust is to take over the running of Bath’s iconic Assembly Rooms from Bath & North East Somerset Council after invoking a break clause in the building’s lease. The 18th century building has been owned by the National Trust since 1931 and is currently leased to the council to house the Fashion...
Businesses are being invited to exercise their collective grey matter and enter the 2019 Brain of Bath. Now in its 20th year, the annual Julian House Brain of Bath Quiz has become a key date in the city’s business calendar and a fun-yet-competitive way to entertain clients and reward staff. The inaugural quiz night was...
National property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has appointed a new associate director to its South West industrial agency team as part of its expanding national offer. Byron Hammond, pictured, joins the Bristol-based team with more than nine years’ experience in providing disposal and acquisitions services to a broad range of industrial occupiers and property...
Bath Financial Forum, the group aiming to raise the city’s profile as a centre of excellence for financial services, returns for its second meeting next month with an in-depth look at how the wider economy is impacting on this ambition. Guest speaker will be Donna Kehoe, the Bank of England’s agent for South West,...
Two Bath area firms are heading to the US this weekend as part of a high-powered regional delegation promoting the West of England and seeking potential business deals. Scanning Pens, the world’s leading supplier of pen scanners, and Chipside, a specialist software development company working with around a quarter of local and regional government...
Bath-based housing association and housebuilder Curo has added its voice to calls for the government to amend Universal Credit (UC) calculations that could leave some of its tenants without enough money to pay their rent this year. The shortfall is due to the calculation used by government which pays UC monthly while housing association...
Prime office space in a grade II listed Georgian mansion is being marketed by the Bath office of national property consultancy Carter Jonas. Manvers House, pictured, on Kingston Road in Bradford on Avon, is one of the historic town’s most prominent period properties having served as a hub for innovators from a cross section...
Bath businesses are being invited to enter teams for the city’s third annual Dragon Boat Race and bring in much-needed cash for two charities. Since its launch in 2016 the race has raised more than £34,000 for Designability, the Bath-based charity which designs and creates assistive technology and products for people living with a...
Global engineering giant Siemens is to relocate its software development department to newly refurbished office space in a move it says will improve teamwork and help it grow. The department, previously based on Chippenham’s Bumpers Farm business park, has moved to 4,300sq ft of prime office space on the first floor of the town’s...
Bath’s Business Improvement District (BID) has become the first in the UK to glean anonymous data from visitors’ mobile phones and credit cards to better understand spending patterns in the city centre. The BID, which is funded by 675 levy payers, has teamed up with a specialist ‘big data’ consultancy which will provide it...
