The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs is staged in the West of England this week for its seventh year to once again support women to build and grow sustainable businesses. Hundreds of women self-starters are expected to attend the day-long event in Bristol this Friday, October 19, to hear, learn from and be inspired by...
Bath-based design agency Supple Studios has been recognised as one of the South West’s top digital innovators at a regional awards scheme. The agency triumphed in the Branding in a Digital Environment category of the South West Digital Awards last week for its work on the Prison Radio Association’s Straightline campaign, which was designed...
Keynsham-based TrueSpeed Communications, which was started by three investors fed up with poor broadband in their homes, has won the regional stage of a major enterprise award scheme. Having been launched four years ago, TrueSpeed last year received a £75m investment from insurance giant Aviva which enabled it to move offices and hire more...
Business West’s Skills West team is running a series of business skills workshops in Bath throughout autumn covering topics ranging from recruitment and flexible working to apprenticeships for small and medium-sized businesses and developing the workforce. The workshops are free and open to businesses from any sector or industry. Title: How to find the...
Specialist IT group SCISYS has secured work worth £2m on a project aimed at improving bus services in London through the use of emerging technology. The Chippenham-headquartered group, whose expertise spans transport, defence, media and space, is to provide software design, development and support services to Transport for London (TfL) for timetabling and scheduling...
Bath Business School, part of Bath Spa University, has been shortlisted for the first time in the Business School of the Year category of the Times Higher Education Awards 2018 – regarded as the ‘Oscars’ of the HE sector. Bath Business School students take a range of specialist courses in business and management...
Healthcare sector innovators from Bath can test out their ideas in a four-day programme hosted by SETsquared – the world’s number one university business incubator – and the South West Academic Health Science Network (SW AHSN) next month. The Health Innovation Programme (HIP), which is free to companies that meet the eligibility criteria,...
A snapshot of Bath’s start-up and scale-up ecosystem has been produced in an easy-to-use format to show where high-growth businesses can find essential support, information and advice. The innovative Growth Map – illustrated like a London Tube map and thought to be the UK’s first of its kind – has been launched by the...
The University of Bath has bought the Bristol & Bath Science Park with South Gloucestershire Council in a joint £18m deal they say will realise its potential and boost the West of England’s reputation as a centre of excellence for research. Since the park opened in 2011 after a quarter of a century...
The Institute of Directors (IoD) is seeking a new South West chair to represent its 5,000 members across the region. Current chair Nick Sturge, pictured, who is director of Bristol innovation hub Engine Shed, steps down in January after the standard three years in the role. The voluntary, unpaid position aims to promote awareness...
