Swindon chartered accountancy firm Banks BHG is calling on quiz lovers to sign up for its popular charity brainteaser later this month. The event, on Thursday April 28, is open to teams of four, with all proceeds going to the firm’s charity of the year, Julia’s House, which is aiming to open the first...
Swindon’s go-ahead firms are being encouraged to follow in the tracks of skateboard distributor Shiner and show the benefits of creating a great workplace culture. Bristol-based Shiner collected the top prize in last year’s inaugural South West Happiest Workplace competition, attributing its success to being “laid back with no egos”. The third-generation family firm,...
Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget included a number of important measures for the South West, including £3m to improve rail stations across the South West £16m Exceptional Regional Growth Fund (ERGF) payment to Dyson for battery research in Malmesbury £8m during 2016-17 to fill around 159,000 potholes across region £14.5m in grants to extend ultrafast...
More than twice as many West businesses want the UK to stay in the EU as leave, according to the hotly anticipated results of a major regional survey. Some 57% of business people said they will vote to remain part of the EU, compared to 26% who say they will back the leave campaign....
Measures to help small firms in Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget this week have been welcomed by Swindon’s business community and business advisors. The Budget held good news for local firms, according to Ian Larrard, pictured left, director of the Swindon & Wiltshire Initiative. “With permanent savings in business rates, lower levels of capital gains...
Chancellor started speaking at 12:34 He opened by saying he will report on an economy growing faster than any other major economy and a deficit falling each year and on course for a budget surplus. Economy was strong because he did not support short-term fixes. But he warned world economy is weak. "In this...
Accountancy group EY has appointed former HSBC regional corporate banking head Mark Bennett as a relationship director covering the South West & Wales. Mark, pictured, spent 38 years in a variety of roles at the bank, including strategic development, head of business marketing and head of corporate banking for the last 12 years. He...
Nine firms from Swindon and North Wiltshire have been named among the UK’s fastest-growing and most dynamic small and medium-sized businesses. The firms appear in the latest prestigious London Stock Exchange’s 1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain report. These high-growth businesses are highlighted as leading the charge in rebuilding the economy,” according to Chancellor of...
Nicola Bickell has joined accountants Haines Watts Swindon as an administrator. Nicola, pictured, arrives at the firm’s Old Town office after working in the health service for more than a decade. She said: “I’m really enjoying working as part of such a close-knit team. It’s been a very positive career move for me.” Nicola...
Swindon firms are being encouraged to head along the M4 next week The Bath Business Expo 2016 – one of the region’s largest business events. The Expo on March 17, which is supported by Bath & North East Somerset Council (B&NES) and a number of Swindon-based sponsors, will act as a local and regional...
