Specialist teacher recruitment firm Classpeople has added new team members to its Swindon branch as demand for its services continues to grow. Lisa Harker has been promoted to branch manager after two years working at the company’s head office in Cheltenham. Two recruitment consultants – Carly Wheeler and Brittany Bolton – have also been...
Swindon’s economy will get a boost from the £24.5bn Hinkley Point C nuclear power station approved this week by the European Commission, according to experts. The controversial plant, on the Somerset coast near Bridgwater, will be Britain’s first new nuclear reactor for nearly 20 years and could create around 25,000 jobs across the region...
Accountancy firm BDO has appointed a new lead partner for the South West as it prepares to grow its staff by a fifth and expand its regional head office. Andrea Bishop, an experienced audit partner who has been at the firm for 10 years, has taken over from Graham Randall, who has led the...
A Swindon primary school today called on the support of the town’s businesses as it launched months of fundraising activities to raise £20,000 to buy and install solar panels. Drove Primary School kicked off the fundraising under the innovative Solar Schools project with a whole-school assembly and a parent’s information meeting. The events explained...
Specialist software firm SciSys has landed a £1m extension to a contract to supply its innovative technology to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The Chippenham-based firm was originally contracted to supply system and information management (SIMS) systems for the first 11 vessels in the RNLI’s latest class of lifeboat, the Shannon, pictured. The...
Swindon firms are being urged to get on the fast track to success by joining UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) as it brings the world to the region for its sixth Export Week. Organised by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) in conjunction with partners and business organisations, Export Week aims to encourage companies to...
Monday 6 October Final: Waterman Group Trading statements: Aer Lingus, easyJet EGMs: British Sky Broadcasting, Electra Private Equity, Fresnillo Economics: New car registrations, Halifax house prices Tuesday 7 October Interim: Next Fifteen Communications Final: St Ives Trading statements: Ferrexpo, Robert Walters EGM: Matomy Media Group Economics: Industrial production, Manufacturing output, NIESR GDP estimate (September)...
Each week Swindon Business News gives a prominent member of the town’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Kate Westbrook, partner at leading commercial law firm Thrings, answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? I’m almost embarrassed to say it was The Hangover Part II....
The second phase of Swindon’s Kimmerfields regeneration scheme has been launched with promise that it will bring “vitality and vibrancy” to the town centre by adding a new and much-needed commercial district capable. The £350m project, led by Muse Developments and backed by landowner Homes and Communities Agency, is transforming a prime 20-acre zone...
Swindon law firms Thrings and Withy King have been named as ‘regional heavyweights’ in the latest Legal 500, the annual guide that identifies the UK’s best-performing legal firms and individuals. In a regional table dominated by Bristol firms Thrings, which has the largest of its string of offices in Swindon, is ranked in the...
