A company specialising in fire protection for hardware has acquired a large industrial and office building in a prominent village setting near Salisbury.
Vanquish Hardware Protection has moved into Fusion House which overlooks the A338 at Downton Business Centre, in a deal brokered by property consultancy Myddelton & Major.
A Wiltshire law firm has launched a hunt for a charity to support in 2021.
Each year, Goughs Solicitors works closely with carefully selected official charity partners helping to both raise awareness and funds for some extremely worthy causes.
Regional law firm Thrings has added further strength and depth to its private client offering with the appointment of two experienced legal specialists.
Senior associate Karen Perugini and solicitor Harriet Burt will work within the firm’s growing succession and tax team.
Great Britain wheelchair rugby athlete and Paralympian Aaron Phipps will be addressing members of Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce in a motivational webinar.
Aaron will be discussing the hardships he has faced over the years whilst trying to reach his dreams of becoming an international sportsperson.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak may have cancelled the Autumn Budget, opting instead for the Winter Recovery Plan, but doubtless he will still be making plans to claw back some of the £190 billion support injected into the economy in response to Coronavirus – and that could potentially mean tax rises.
If that is the case, one tax in his sights is likely to be Capital Gains Tax, particularly as in its manifesto the Conservative Party promised not to raise income tax, National Insurance or VAT. In July, the Chancellor ordered a review into CGT, asking the Office of Tax Simplification to report on how CGT rates compare with other taxes. We await the outcome of this with interest.
A coronavirus fund grant is helping a charity set up a new finance and debt advice service in Salisbury to cope with redundancies caused by the pandemic.
The Swan Advocacy Network is setting up a Community Money Advice service in South Wiltshire with a £9,700 grant from the Wiltshire Community Foundation’s Coronavirus Response and Recovery Fund.
Almost a quarter of Swindon Borough Council’s electricity consumption will be generated by solar power after the authority teamed up with three energy companies.
The council, in partnership with West Mercia Energy (WME), Total Gas & Power (TGP) and Swindon Chapel Farm Solar PLC (CFS), has launched a solar offset scheme at the Chapel Farm solar site (pictured) in North Swindon.