Businesses vying to win awards
With just over a month to go until the Bath Business Awards, in the weeks leading up to the event we are introducing each of our finalists. This week, we meet the businesses shortlisted for the Leisure and Tourism Award and Best Place to Work Award. Leisure & Tourism Award sponsored by Bath Rugby Club Bath Festival of Nature
The Bath Festival of Nature is a key Bath Natural History Consortium project. By bringing together local and national environmental organisations and artists, the Festival provides a showcase of some of the most interesting local and global environmental challenges of the time, and inspires and educates local communities to explore, and support green space.
Bath International Comedy Festival Ltd In Partnership With Visit Bath
Now in its 10th year, Bath Comedy Festival is the fastest growing comedy festival in England, whilst retaining its basic premise to encourage new work, young and upcoming performers and female comedians. It has become the city’s biggest outdoor community celebration involving five stages, theatre, music, food and farmers’ market which regularly attracts crowds of 8,000 people.
Bath Preservation Trust
Throughout the year the Bath Preservation Trust has hosted many events and activities focused around Bath’s heritage - that were enjoyed by some 88,000 people. Local residents, tourists, community groups, schools and businesses all participated; forging new partnerships, providing training for more than 250 new and existing volunteers, and creating new digital resources to act as a legacy for the year’s celebrations.
The Roseate Villa Bath
The Roseate Villa has been part of the Bath hotel sector for many years, with a loyal customer base who return year on year to experience the charm of this unusual property. The team at the villa are proud of the fact that they offer a warm and hospitable welcome that makes guests feel like they are arriving to stay with old friends. Best Place to Work sponsored by Stone King Edit
Edit is a new marketing agency formed of three merged businesses within the St Ives Group. It now employs 170 people at its Bath site. As the largest marketing agency in Bath, Edit prides itself on its approach to staff wellbeing, and continually looks at ways to provide good quality jobs and forge strong connections with the community.
Pure Planet
Pure Planet is a new kind of energy company. Its owners believe that work should fit around its employees’ lives, not the other way around. Every person in the team receives equal benefits, regardless of seniority.
Rocketmakers Ltd
Rocketmakers has been attracting top talent with high-quality, competitively-paid jobs since its inception. Now with 20 full-time employees, Rocketmakers has become the premier technology innovation company in the city, whilst keeping its team happy, healthy, and motivated.
The Roseate Villa Bath
The Roseate Villa Bath has a happy, progressive, supportive culture that runs through the team. There is a high level of respect for each other throughout the team and everyone works together to deliver a good guest experience, but also to make the working experience positive too.