Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Public Health Team is recruiting new workplace health champions in businesses across Bath and North East Somerset. The team have a limited number of places on a one day free accredited training for employees wishing to become health champions (worth up to £250 per place) on Monday 21^st January 2019, alongisde free ongoing support.

Health champions are a great way to raise the profile of health and wellbeing in your business and to raise the profile of your business locally.

A new city centre gift card has been introduced in Bath.

Bath remains a popular destination for a perfect day out, combining high quality restaurants (Marco Pierre White and Pierre Koffman have just opened in the city) and wonderfully diverse shopping where famous names rub shoulders with niche independents. And of course, with the whole city set against a stunning 18^th century architectural backdrop with some ancient Roman monuments to add interest, Bath provides an unbeatable cultural offer.

A new digital travel top-up service has been launched in Bath and Bristol. Payzone and First West of England have teamed up to provide a convenient and accessible retail channel to support off-bus cash payments across its services.

Using the latest ITSO Smart Ticketing technology provided by our partners, Rambus, the new initiative  allows customers to pay for their bus tickets at any Payzone outlet in the region. Their ticket is loaded onto their smartcard at our Payzone tablet and is then ready for use on First WoE bus services across the region.

The FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards recognise the best small businesses and the self-employed from right across the UK – from every sector and industry and from businesses of all ages and in sizebands up to 250 employees. Organised on a regional basis they are free to enter and are open to all small businesses, whether current FSB members, or not. A handy PDF containing hints and tips for entrants is attached at the foot of this webpage.

Following a major refurbishment to provide 45,000 sq ft of Grade A office space that commenced back in 2016, the final suite remaining on the market has now been let. Following their success in winning the Queen's Aware for Enterprise, Rocketmakers (pictured) has signed a new lease for 3,800 sq ft of space in the building.