Danny Alexander’s Visit To The Guild

April 30, 2014

 On Friday 25th April Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury came to visit Bath. He had been to Bristol in the morning to announce that the city would be getting an additional £7 million in funding to support it as Europe’s green capital, on this way back to London Danny came to visit Bath. … Read More

Gingerbread Fun With Bickie-Boo

April 23, 2014

Every Wednesday at The Guild is Cake Wednesday. Last week we had a special Cake Wednesday when Julie Beale from Bickie-Boo came in to show us how she builds her special gingerbread houses. Julie’s patented design involves using laces to tie together the gingerbread house at the roof and on the corners. This saves all … Read More

Shopify Comes to Bath

April 14, 2014

The Guild isn’t simply somewhere to plonk yourself for the day with your laptop, its a community! Now we know that communities don’t just happen overnight, so we try to encourage the growth of that community through our branding, the look and feel of our space, and socials both at work and out of hours. … Read More

From Google Glass to Scrabble – Wednesdays at The Guild

April 7, 2014

It may be the Easter hols, but that doesn’t mean the hub shuts down – yesterday was a really good day for us, Wednesday’s have always been a popular day for us…the power of Cake Wednesdays! but yesterday felt different and I think it was due to the two great but very different events that … Read More

Bath: Hacked

April 2, 2014

After six months of planning Bath: Hacked was finally upon us and like the rest of the steering group I breathed a sigh of relief when the first sign-ups appeared half an hour early! Bath: Hacked was all about trying to benefit the community through use of open data and it was great to see … Read More

A Guild Member Interview – Kieran Potts – Content First Web Design

March 6, 2014

This afternoon I had a chat with Kieran Potts founder of New Vintage Media. Kieran builds websites with a content first approach that was born out of a career as a technology journalist and a coincidental encounter with programming. What first got you interested in web design? It was a total accident to be honest, … Read More

A Guild Member Interview – Alison Howell – Taking On An Apprentice

February 18, 2014

Alison runs Foot Trails, England’s only independent walking holiday company focused on rural England. She has just taken on an apprentice and I was really interested to find out more about this and her business. Hi Alison, can you tells us a little bit about Foot Trails? We are a travel company that helps to … Read More

A Guild Member Interview – Imogen Woodford – Bath’s Social Media Queen

February 11, 2014

Today I interviewed Imogen Woodford who runs Social-i. Imogen started Social-i with her business partner Catherine back in 2010 and now runs it with her husband Jason. Social-i provides social media training for business and educational institutes. So Imogen when did you start using social media? Probably about 2005 and it all started with Friends … Read More

What a year 2013 has been

December 16, 2013

#### 2013 was the year that the Guild was officially born and it’s been awesome so far! To celebrate the end of what has been a busy and exciting year for us we asked some of our members to share their highlight of 2013! #### [**Mark Wray -Mark Wray Architects – Director**](http://markwray.co.uk/ “Mark Wray”) Jacking … Read More