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Wiltshire-based certification and quality management provider IMSM has become the first to bring the new ISO 42001 standard to market.

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
21.08.2024

ISO firm first to bring new AI certification to market

Wiltshire-based certification and quality management provider IMSM has become the first to bring the new ISO 42001 standard to market. The certification is the new, internationally heralded global benchmark for businesses using AI. The standard helps companies oversee their […]

Salisbury’s WBR Group introduces four-day week

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10.06.2024

Swindon Carers Centre welcomes new rights for unpaid carers who juggle caring with paid employment

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26.02.2024

Hills Quarry Products starts new year with health and safety focus

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09.01.2024

Renewable energy supplier Good Energy has been certified as a B Corp, the global standard for purpose-led business.

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
08.08.2024

Good Energy achieves B Corp certification

Renewable energy supplier Good Energy has been certified as a B Corp, the global standard for purpose-led business. The Chippenham-based firm, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, was one of the originators of the purpose-led business movement in […]

Former world class wheelchair tennis players Louise Hunt Skelley PLY, and Samanta Bullock have started a new business, EnableRise, dedicated to promoting inclusivity, empowerment, and positive change for forward-looking companies and organisations who want to embrace people of all abilities

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
26.06.2024

Wheelchair athletes start new business to promote inclusivity

Former world class wheelchair tennis players Louise Hunt Skelley PLY, and Samanta Bullock have started a new business dedicated to promoting inclusivity, empowerment, and positive change for forward-looking companies and organisations who want to embrace people of all abilities. […]

Swindon-based insurance firm Zurich has won an award for its domestic abuse policy, which was developed in conjunction with Swindon Domestic Abuse Support Service

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
20.06.2024

Zurich’s domestic abuse policy recognised with national business award

Swindon-based insurance firm Zurich has won an award for its domestic abuse policy, which was developed in conjunction with Swindon Domestic Abuse Support Service. The firm won Outstanding Initiative of Support at Cover Magazine’s Women in Protection and Health […]

Wiltshire-based certification and quality management provider IMSM has become the first to bring the new ISO 42001 standard to market.

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
Wednesday August 21 2024

ISO firm first to bring new AI certification to market

Wiltshire-based certification and quality management provider IMSM has become the first to bring the new ISO 42001 standard to market. The certification is the new, internationally heralded global benchmark for businesses using AI. The standard helps companies oversee their […]

Renewable energy supplier Good Energy has been certified as a B Corp, the global standard for purpose-led business.

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
Thursday August 8 2024

Good Energy achieves B Corp certification

Renewable energy supplier Good Energy has been certified as a B Corp, the global standard for purpose-led business. The Chippenham-based firm, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, was one of the originators of the purpose-led business movement in […]

Former world class wheelchair tennis players Louise Hunt Skelley PLY, and Samanta Bullock have started a new business, EnableRise, dedicated to promoting inclusivity, empowerment, and positive change for forward-looking companies and organisations who want to embrace people of all abilities

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
Wednesday June 26 2024

Wheelchair athletes start new business to promote inclusivity

Former world class wheelchair tennis players Louise Hunt Skelley PLY, and Samanta Bullock have started a new business dedicated to promoting inclusivity, empowerment, and positive change for forward-looking companies and organisations who want to embrace people of all abilities. […]

Swindon-based insurance firm Zurich has won an award for its domestic abuse policy, which was developed in conjunction with Swindon Domestic Abuse Support Service

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
Thursday June 20 2024

Zurich’s domestic abuse policy recognised with national business award

Swindon-based insurance firm Zurich has won an award for its domestic abuse policy, which was developed in conjunction with Swindon Domestic Abuse Support Service. The firm won Outstanding Initiative of Support at Cover Magazine’s Women in Protection and Health […]

Salisbury-based WBR Group, the UK’s largest independent provider of SSAS services and tax experts, are to introduce a four-day working week.

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
Monday June 10 2024

Salisbury’s WBR Group introduces four-day week

Salisbury-based WBR Group, the UK’s largest independent provider of SSAS services and tax experts, are to introduce a four-day working week. Based on the 100-80-100 model – 100 per cent productivity delivered over 80 per cent of the working […]

Swindon Carers Centre welcomes new rights for unpaid carers who juggle caring with paid employment

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
Monday February 26 2024

Swindon Carers Centre welcomes new rights for unpaid carers who juggle caring with paid employment

New legislation which will come into force in April giving employees who are unpaid carers statutory entitlement to five days unpaid leave a year has been welcomed by Swindon Carers Centre. One in seven employees in the UK have […]

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
Tuesday January 9 2024

Hills Quarry Products starts new year with health and safety focus

Aggregates firm Hills Quarry Products delayed the opening of all its sites on the first working day of 2024 to allow employees to brush up on health and safety. Safety briefings, which were held across its operational quarry and […]

Fran Woodward

Swindon & Wiltshire Awards
Thursday November 23 2023

Good Energy named in Top 20 of the UK’s best large companies to work for

Chippenham-based renewable energy provider Good Energy has been named as one of the UK’s best large companies to work for, rising rapidly through the list of national employers. The firm has been listed 17th in the annual Best Companies […]

Business owners networking at a recent The Future Smiths event at Swindon's Workshed

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
Thursday November 16 2023

The Future Smiths raise awareness on Social Enterprise Day

Swindon-based business support service The Future Smiths is raising awareness about social enterprises and their contribution to the economy today (Thursday), Social Enterprise Day. The firm, which is dedicated to promoting diversity in business by supporting underrepresented entrepreneurs, is […]

Chief financial officer Ian Wixon, CEO Alan Weston, and chief operating officer Lewis Rendle

Swindon & Wiltshire Governance
Wednesday November 15 2023

Property audit firm Goodman Nash moves to employee ownership ahead of 30th anniversary

Devizes-based property audit firm Goodman Nash has moved to an employee ownership model ahead of its 30th anniversary. Goodman Nash was established in Wiltshire in 1994 and sparked the business rates audit industry in the UK by identifying savings […]

Swindon & Wiltshire Awards
Monday November 6 2023

Excalibur named as one of UK’s Best Small Companies to Work For

Communications and IT solutions provider Excalibur has been named one of the UK’s Best Small Companies to Work For. The accolade comes from Best Companies and marks the first time Excalibur has been a Top 50 company and marks […]