Chippenham residents and visitors to the town are being urged to support its privately owned shops as part of national Independent Retailer Month. Nearly half the retail units in the town are independently owned – reflecting a growing trend across the South West in particular for smaller, locally owned stores to set up and...
Wroughton Airfield Solar Park, which will be one of the UK’s largest solar farms when it starts generating next year, has been sold by a company owned by Swindon Council and the Science Museum in a multi-million pound deal. The 165-acre project on the former Second World War RAF airfield near Swindon has been...
Swindon specialist sales and marketing recruitment consultancy Ardour has taken on Laura Simmonds as an administrator with business and customer service responsibilities. Ardour, based at Kembrey Park, has a growing reputation for offering tailored recruitment services based on experience of sales and marketing best practice. Clients include Rentokil, AAP3 and Minuteman Press. Laura, pictured, who...
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A golf day organised by Swindon accountancy firm Banks BHG raised more than £1,000 for Inner Flame – its charity of the year – which delivers The Prince’s Trust Team Programme in Swindon to help young people into employment. More than 35 keen golfers from among Banks BHG clients, colleagues and associates took part...
Swindon’s showpiece £10m UTC (University Technical College) has won the Best Educational Building category in the 2015 West of England Regional LABC (Local Authority Building Control) Building Excellence Awards. As a result, it is now shortlisted for the LABC grand finals which take place in November at London’s Lancaster Hotel. UTC Swindon had also...
Chippenham’s Business Improvement District (BID) team of town hosts have taken to the streets to help make the town centre safer and more welcoming for visitors and residents. The three hosts – two full time and one part time – have been trained by the BID to ensure they are knowledgeable and passionate about...
Changes to the rental sector announced in last week’s Budget should make landlords extra vigilant when finding tenants, Swindon-based Tenant Screening is warning. Chancellor George Osborne cut the mortgage relief landlords can claim and at the same time raised the amount of tax-free income on renting a room. But Tenant Screening, which provides a...
Swindon bookings agency Venues and Events has agreed six more strategic partnerships to expand its specialist services. The move takes to seven the firm’s joint ventures and means it can now offer, via these partners, services spanning a range of indoor and outdoor team building activities, parties, virtual events and webcasting and travel management...
Accountancy firm Monahans, which has offices in Swindon and Chippenham, is encouraging the Wiltshire’s manufacturers to have their say on the effect of the engineering skills gap as part of a major industry survey. The firm is backing the survey, which has been launched by MHA, the association of accountancy and business advisory firms,...
