The region’s largest business group has urged the Prime Minister to help create a more sustainable future for business at this weekend’s G7 summit in Cornwall. The British Chambers of Commerce South West (BCCSW) – which includes Bath Chamber of Commerce parent group Business West – has written to Boris Johnson ahead of the global...
Bath’s most prestigious address – No.1 Royal Crescent – has re-opened with a new immersive experience that allows visitors to see how life was lived in Georgian Bath. Using an innovative mix of digital projections and sound featuring actors, the story of one family living in the house shortly after it was built in the...
Bath’s long-awaited World Heritage Centre and Roman Baths Clore Learning Centre, which will greatly enhance visitors’ appreciation of city’s history, are being fitted out ahead of opening later this year. The two centres are part of the Archway Project, which will bring to life previously closed areas of the Baths to visitors, including a...
Bath retail and hospitality businesses are set to benefit from a programme of entertainment, events and activities to celebrate the reopening of the city this summer after more than a year of Covid-related lockdowns and restrictions. Staged by Bath Business Improvement District (Bath BID), Summer Sundays will encourage visitors into the city centre to...
Cylix, the Bath-based eLearning software firm, has been acquired by the UK’s leading provider of business critical services and software that assure safety and regulatory compliance. London-based Marlowe said the move would offer “attractive synergies” with Deltanet, the compliance & safety eLearning platform it snapped up recently under its buy-and-build strategy. Cylix, which is based on...
A Bath hotel is offering free use of its meeting rooms to small businesses, charities and community groups as they look ahead to life after Covid-related restrictions. The Apex hotel on James Street West, along with nine others in the Apex group, this week launched its ‘Help in Hand’ initiative offering complimentary use of...
The West division of construction and regeneration group Vistry Partnerships has completed a board restructure, appointing Kevin Trow as operations director, as it targets ambitious growth across the region. The division, based in Bradley Stoke, near Bristol, is responsible for some of the region’s largest new home developments, including the £13m Pemberley Place retirement...
Bath’s small and medium-sized businesses are being urged to take advantage of grants which can make them greener while also saving them money. But they need to hurry as applications for the grants close on June 25. The Green Business Grant scheme is run by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), which covers Bath...
Bath-headquartered global engineering consultancy Buro Happold has helped transform the basement of a 1970s Bristol office block into the UK’s highest-rated employee cycle area. Castlemead, at 18-storeys Bristol’s tallest commercial building, is undergoing a £2.1m refurbishment, partly to prepare it for a commuting revolution likely to be sparked by the introduction of the city’s Clean Air...
Three Bath area firms have been named among the best companies to work for in the South West. The UK’s first digital green energy supplier Pure Planet and housing group Curo – both based in Bath – and Chippenham-based Good Energy, also a renewable energy firm, are included in the latest Best Company to...
