With just over a week to go to the Business Show Swindon, Business West can reveal the full line-up. Businesses attending the event next Thursday (April 23) will get the opportunity to hear from inspirational keynote speaker Monty Halls, find out how they can recruit and retain staff using social media, discover how they...
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 Ian Larrard, director of the Swindon & Wiltshire Initiative, part of Business West, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Theory of Everything – an amazing...
Swindon Council has been nationally recognised as the first in the UK to use an innovative planning measure to encourage more low carbon energy generation. The Local Development Orders (LDO), which will be discussed by the planning committee tomorrow, could eventually mean all Swindon’s housing will be powered by clean energy. Some 29 sites...
Swindon-based Hills Waste Solutions’ commitment to achieving excellence in health and safety has been recognised by Safecontractor, the third party accreditation scheme. The firm, which employs nearly 300 people, provides a range of specialist waste management and recycling services to blue-chip customers in the area such as Wiltshire Council, Honda of the UK Manufacturing,...
Swindon recruitment firm Outsource UK has made its fourth acquisition in as many years by taking over a business specialising in providing high-level engineering staff to the defence and engineering sectors. The addition of PA Recruit makes it the third Manchester firm to be snapped up by Outsource. Its former owner Peter Ainsworth and...
Swindon Foyer, the supported housing project in Old Town, served as the venue for a question-and-answer session between homeless young people and three prospective parliamentary candidates in the South Swindon constituency. The Bath Road building, operated by major UK social housing provider Stonewater, provides accommodation, training and support to disadvantaged and homeless young people...
