WILTSHIRE BUSINESS SHORTLISTED … as charity champions. Swindon-based financial planning business, Southby & Co Financial Planning are on the shortlist! Which list? Charity Champions of the Year in the Money Marketing Awards 2025 list.
Mind Your Step – and there’s an intentional pun there. Because Barbara Leatham, founder of Barbara Leatham Photography and ‘The Business Lens’, has launched a monthly photography walking event. It’s aim, networking aside, to raise money for Wiltshire Mind.
Swindon Recruiters Support Children’s Charity. The team at recruitment company Cotswolds Talent Solutions are putting their best feet forward. They’re stepping out to raise funds for a charity that cares for sick children.
10 Black Nova Reflections. South West-based tech company Black Nova Designs is celebrating a decade in business. And they’re marking the milestone by sharing ten hard-earned lessons from founders Kyle and Danielle Holmes.
PR Expert at London Expo. Public relations expert, journalist and sought-after presenter Fiona Scott is taking to the stage next month. She’ll be delivering a keynote speech at the London Expo.
Intelligent Dialogue Wins Major Contract. Wiltshire training consultancy Intelligent Dialogue has won a major contract. It’s with UK-wide plant hire company Sunbelt Rentals UK & Ireland. It’s aimed at supporting a new leadership development programme for its depot and branch managers. One that will help them to provide exceptional customer service. It’s all part of its five-year strategy: Sunbelt 4.0.
Chilvester Financial Expands with two new offices. In opening new branches in Bristol and Newbury, Wiltshire-based financial planning firm, Chilvester Financial, has expanded its reach along the M4 corridor.
Finance Company Supports Charities. Local Finance company Southby & Co Financial Planning are supporting several Wiltshire charities. That’s all thanks to a £5,000 gift which came from winning a prestigious industry award.
Pipp & Co Vegan Doughnut. Doughnut makers Pipp & Co have launched a vegan doughnut to ensure plant-based food lovers don’t miss out on their delicious treats.
Sean Harper, co-founder of Swindon-based Just for Fun Holiday Club, has taken on a new and rewarding challenge. This one as a therapeutic mentor with The Platform Project.
Positive Property Relocation with BlueSky removals Swindon.
There’s a well-established received wisdom that moving house ranks high on a list of difficult life events – it’s seen as very much a negative than a positive experience. A brief trawl of the World Wide Web will bring up numerous versions of these lists. This one from Benenden Health positions moving house at number seven. On their list it comes after studying/taking exams and before watching/reading news – almost guaranteed to make the blood pressure soar sky high, that one. But number seven on a list of ten isn’t the top-of-the-list of stressful life events that popular folklore would have us believe. What does come top in several places I looked at, is the death of a spouse or close relative. And that’s as you’d expect isn’t it?
Wiltshire businesswoman, Janet Shreeve from Shreeve Care Services, has been appointed Vice Chair of Swindon’s long-standing business referral group, BusinessWise.
The independent, not for profit business group is one of the most established in the town and the county. It has a history dating back more than ten years. Business owners attending the networking group which operates a ‘single seat’ model – only one person representing each business discipline can join.
