After the resounding success of last year’s inaugural competition, 2026 promises to be even bigger, bolder, and packed with opportunity for growing businesses across Bath and the surrounding area.

This Saturday (6 December), Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES) will proudly take part in Small Business Saturday UK, a nationwide campaign celebrating the power of independent businesses.

A therapy dog, women’s walking football and support for people leaving hospital are among a growing list of small businesses providing care and wellbeing services to Bath & North East Somerset residents, thanks to a council-backed programme, Community Catalysts.

Bath is preparing to celebrate 25 years of festive cheer, community spirit and local enterprise with just four weeks to go until Bath Christmas Market 2025.

A programme of potential schemes to regenerate Keynsham town centre which includes shopfront improvements, active travel projects and high street planting has been endorsed by Bath & North East Somerset Council.

An organisation created during the COVID-19 pandemic to showcase Bath and North East Somerset’s dynamic, creative and successful businesses is celebrating its five-year anniversary with a free exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath.

With high streets across the country plagued by doom and gloom stories of closures, Bath is bucking the trend and becoming a clear destination for business.

Invest in B&NES is urging business owners to beware of the risks of borrowing from illegal lenders, as part of this year’s Business Finance Week.

Two businesses in Bath have received a fresh new look as part of Bath & North East Somerset Council’s work to revitalise high streets across the district.

Bath & North East Somerset Council has welcomed the Government’s announcement that Twerton in Bath will receive £20m investment from its Pride in Place programme, which aims to empower local people to help build stronger communities and create thriving places.