BUSINESS: Are you a small business and need help with accounts?

BUSINESS: Are you a small business and need help with accounts?

Posted: 19th March 2018
THE Somerset-based South West Small Business Support organisation is looking to help companies in the area who find it a struggle keeping on top of their accounts. Susie Bell, founder of the independent SWSBS, can look after non-VAT registered companies and sole traders from just £99 per month. This low cost all-inclusive price includes day-to-day bookkeeping, monthly…

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BUSINESS: British Heart Foundation receives support of business group

BUSINESS: British Heart Foundation receives support of business group

Posted: 18th March 2018
A YEOVIL-BASED business group has nominated the British Heart Foundation as the charity it will support in 2018. Lynx 2 Business meets every Tuesday morning for breakfast meetings held at Yeovil Golf Club and is delighted to be supporting the BHF over the next 12 months. The charity’s fundraising manager for Dorset and Somerset, Victoria Carswell, recently met with Lynx…

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BUSINESS: Red Berry Recruitment gets support from Theo Paphitis

BUSINESS: Red Berry Recruitment gets support from Theo Paphitis

Posted: 14th March 2018
A SOMERSET-BASED recruitment agency has received a business boost from retail entrepreneur and former Dragons’ Den businessman Theo Paphitis. Helen Lacey, owner of Red Berry Recruitment which has offices in Bridgwater, Yeovil and Shepton Mallet, tweeted Theo about her business during ‘Small Business Sunday’ and was one of six weekly winners to gain a retweet by Theo to…

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BUSINESS: Old Mill trainee Lloyd Bazley nominated in Somerset Apprenticeship Awards

BUSINESS: Old Mill trainee Lloyd Bazley nominated in Somerset Apprenticeship Awards

Posted: 6th March 2018
A TRAINEE at the Yeovil office of Old Mill accountants and financial planners has made it through to the finals of the Somerset Apprenticeship Awards 2018. Old Mill itself has been nominated in the large employer category, while Lloyd Bazley, who is an IT trainee in Yeovil, is named in the individual category. Having joined Old Mill in the summer of 2016, Lloyd Bazley…

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BUSINESS: Calling all contractors – help is at hand!

BUSINESS: Calling all contractors – help is at hand!

Posted: 5th February 2018
A NEW independent company can provide help and support for contractors in Somerset who are looking to get business but are met by a barrage of red tape. The South West Small Business Support organisation is looking to help contractors who are struggling to get in with the “big boys” or win new contracts because of all the red tape and required paperwork, accreditations…

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BUSINESS: Raymond van Barneveld is on target with Triton tools

BUSINESS: Raymond van Barneveld is on target with Triton tools

Posted: 29th January 2018
DARTS champ Raymond van Barneveld was in South Somerset on Monday (January 29, 2018) afternoon taking on employees at a Yeovil company. Dutch player van Barneveld, nicknamed Barney, is one of the most successful darts players in history having won the World Darts Championships on five occasions. Now Yeovil-based Triton, a manufacturer of precision power tools, is…

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BUSINESS: Boswells Café to open soon at Quedam

BUSINESS: Boswells Café to open soon at Quedam

Posted: 25th January 2018
OWNERS of the Quedam Centre in Yeovil have announced that a new café will be opening in the shopping mall later this year. Boswells Café will be opening in the Spring and will be combining two units in the large corner space on Ivel Square – previously used by the Costa coffee shop and the Whittard of Chelsea store. The family-run company has a chain of 17 café…

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JOBS: Yee-Hah! Full-time manager needed at new Texas Rocks restaurant

JOBS: Yee-Hah! Full-time manager needed at new Texas Rocks restaurant

Posted: 23rd January 2018
THE planned new Texas Rocks bar and restaurant in Yeovil is looking for a full-time manager to run the outlet when it opens later this year. The American themed steakhouse restaurant is all set to open in early April 2018 in the former Woods Wine Bar premises on Middle Street in the town centre. Owners Kevin and Issy Sanger are on the lookout for someone who will have…

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BUSINESS: Newton House Gin wins GOLD at the 2018 World Gin Awards

BUSINESS: Newton House Gin wins GOLD at the 2018 World Gin Awards

Posted: 15th January 2018
THE owners of Newton House Gin, which is made on the outskirts of Yeovil, are delighted to have been awarded Gold at the 2018 World Gin Awards Against about 40 other UK gins, Newton House Gin, which has only been distilling since March 2017, saw off some stiff competition in the London Dry Gin category. Newton House Gin lays claim to being the only gin distilled in…

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BUSINESS: 24-hour Anytime Fitness club to open in Quedam Centre

BUSINESS: 24-hour Anytime Fitness club to open Quedam Centre

Posted: 9th January 2018
THE owners of the Quedam Centre in Yeovil have announced that a new fitness club will open in the shopping centre later this year. Benson Elliot, the Quedam owners, have said that Anytime Fitness will open a club at the centre this year and join a retail line-up which includes H&M, Topshop, River Island, New Look and JD Sports. Anytime Fitness clubs have more than three…

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