A charity dedicated to improving the lives of residents in Paignton and the surrounding villages has been given a cash boost by a regional builder to help with its work.
Persimmon Homes South West, based in Exeter, donated £1,000 to the Thrive Project Community Hub through its Community Champions scheme.
The Thrive Project is a community hub run by unpaid volunteers. It offers support to approximately 60 people per week, in the guise of food, clothes, computer and phone use, care of address, activities, referrals, specialist drop ins, sourcing accommodation, goods,...
A support service has been launched in Exeter to help people through the coronavirus outbreak.
Exeter Community Wellbeing has been set up to offer help and support to communities including those individuals who are self-isolating as a result of the virus.
At the same time a £1 million community action fund has also been launched by Exeter City Council and Exeter Chiefs Community Foundation to enable community groups and organisations to get rapid access to small grants to allow them to work on local projects to support those people and communities most affected by the...
The UK has witnessed a wave of unprecedented change: school closures, work-from-home, self-isolation, supermarket stockpiling and increased pressure on hospitals. On the flipside, amongst uncertainty, fear and worry, the UK has also seen communities and businesses step up and show their solidarity like never before. From NHS discounts to free online gym-classes, Yoopies, the largest online homecare platform in Europe, is also playing an integral role to encourage communities across the UK to help those that need it most. The platform has launched:
Exeter based print firm Stormpress are offering free support to local shops, hospitality and leisure businesses struggling during the Coronavirus outbreak. The print company have offered to print up to 1000 free A5 flyers for up to 50 local businesses to help them get the message out to customers during this difficult time.
Henry Luce, Managing Director of Stormpress, Henry Luce said: “We were receiving emails from local businesses who had decided to move online or start home deliveries and they were clearly struggling to get that message out there. We felt we were in a unique...
With the restructuring of the secured loan market segment, the high rates and fees as well as the stigma that once plagued this sector are rapidly disappearing. Secured loan sales, now part of the mortgage industry, are a fast-growing market in the UK, up 30 percent in February 2019 over the previous year Reaching £65.5 million in February 2019, secured loans are expected to top these levels have exceeded 2009 amounts; brokers who have not completed a secured loan in months are now seeing these loans on a regular basis.
“Part of this increase is attributed to the improvements in...
Frequently Asked Questions About Buying Fabric Online
If you frequently work with fabric, you are more or less familiar with almost every type of textile sold today. Each fabric has unique properties suitable for various projects. Thus, being familiar with these characteristics is essential, especially if you prefer to buy your fabric from an online shop.
Buying fabric online: the pros
According to Dalston Mill Fabrics , online shopping for fabric is more commonplace now than ever. Whatever fabric and other sewing supplies you need, you can find a wide range of...
Obtaining financing for a small business can prove challenging regardless of the prevailing economic climate. Whether looking for money to help you survive during the hard times, capital to grow the business, or are in need of startup funds, it’s now proving to be tougher than ever before to secure the funds you may need. But this is not to mean that all is lost. With the right small business accounting tips, you should manage to get the money that you require. The following tips should help you get started:
Consider Factoring
This is a business financing method where the firm...
There can be a lot of misinformation offered by many people on what a career in welding can entail. If you are curious about welding, you should talk to people you know who are involved with the profession. In order to provide accurate details about this thriving industry, we have included 6 facts about welding jobs you probably didn’t know.
You Don’t Need College Education
Most people associate welding with many other trades, they tend to believe that welding requires a college education. In reality you will only need a welding certificate to practice as a welder, and courses...
When people think of oral contraceptives, they understandably consider them first and foremost to be birth control pills. They perform that role very well, but it turns out there are alternative uses for these pills too, some of them just as effective. Though this isn't to say they should be relied upon exclusively for other purposes. Here are some other useful functions for oral contraceptives and why they should be carefully considered.
1. Delaying your period
These pills work effectively by introducing different hormones into your system, thereby producing some of the...
As the Coronavirus ravages its way across the globe, the elderly is being warned to protect themselves. Known to be at a high risk of complications from the virus, hospitals across the UK are bracing themselves for an influx in older patients being admitted.
Even without a deadly virus to contend with, staff can find it challenging to take care of older patients in medical facilities. Here, we’ll look at just five challenges of older patients in hospitals and how they can be potentially overcome.
