A big increase in the number of people starting their own business in Scotland has led to increased demand for alternative financing and in particular for crowdfunding.
This is according to equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, which opens its first office in Scotland this week to support existing customers in the region and service a strong pipeline of prospective growth businesses and start-ups.
According to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), the number of new businesses in Scotland registered with Companies House rose to more than 30,000 last year, up 19 per...
Prospective MP for Exeter Dom Morris welcomed Greg Clark, Minister for Universities, Science and Cities, to Exeter yesterday to sign the £270.3 million Heart of the South West Growth Deal.
The partnership with councils and businesses from across the South West secures £130.3m of Government funding, as well as a further £140m of additional investment from local partners and the private sector. The official signing ceremony took place at the Exeter Science Park. Dom Morris said: “The Growth Deal signed today is a huge opportunity for Exeter and the South West. In creating jobs, homes...
Exeter School hosted a joint local Geographical Association/South West Region Royal Geographical Society evening lecture attended by RGS members and over 100 pupils and parents from Exeter School, King’s Taunton, Taunton School and King Alfred’s School in Burnham on Sea.
Attended by 119 people, the lecture was given by Dr Stewart Barr, senior lecturer in the geography department at Exeter University, on 7 October.
Entitled ‘Are You Doing Your Bit? Environmental Responsibility in an Age of Anthropogenic Climate Change’, this was a fascinating and challenging lecture which...
People in Exeter may receive a letter over the next few days from the City Council referring to a Fair Processing Notice.
The letters have been sent to everyone who has received a payment from the city council over the last six years.
A city council spokesman said that the letters were nothing to worry about and did not need to be acted upon.
“Like all councils we must let people know when we are required by law to share their personal information with government organisations. In this case we are obliged to provide the Audit Commission with details of anyone listed...
A Devon businesswoman has carried out 24 tasks in 24 hours to raise £2,000 for the Exeter Foundation.
Starting with swimming across the River Exe, and finishing 24 hours later with a sky dive, Ashley Petrons took on an array of tasks for the round the clock fundraiser in Exeter.
A training session with the Exeter Chiefs at Sandy Park, selling the Big Issue, serving breakfast at the Southgate Mercure Exeter Hotel, and a bake off with Little French Cakes at Intoto Kitchens were all successfully completed by 28-year-old Ashley, of PR and marketing firm Astley Media.
Comedic entertainment act The Comedy Fitness Brothers will be part of the nationwide Stoptober roadshow in Bedford Square on Friday October 10 from 10.30am to 4.30pm, to mark the return of the nation’s biggest mass quit smoking attempt.
The 28-day stop smoking challenge from Public Health England is coming to Exeter to encourage smokers to swap their fags for gags and to help them quit for good this October. They will be based in a huge silver American air-stream caravan parked in Bedford Square, Princesshay.
The roadshow will give residents and visitors in Exeter the...
A local energy co-op have signed an agreement with Exeter veg-box scheme and online farm shop Shillingford Organics to set-up the city’s first ever source of community-owned electricity – and in turn create an income for much needed community projects.
Exeter Community Energy (ECOE) is getting local people to team up and invest in solar panels which will supply the farm with cheap electricity. By selling electricity to the farm, they will create an income which can be used for community projects that tackle fuel poverty and energy efficiency.
The first ever policing operation covering the entire length of the M5 has resulted in 291 people being dealt with for traffic and other offences.
Operation Unity brought together officers from seven police forces working jointly as a team to proactively police the M5 corridor, from its start at Junction 1 in West Bromwich, near Birmingham, to its end at Junction 31 at Exeter where the Devon Expressway and A30 both commence.
The aim of the operation was to crackdown on travelling criminals and target traffic offences over a two-day period, between Thursday 2 October, and...
Business Doctors invites your business to ‘Break Big’
If you are looking to grow your business, the locally based Business Doctors invite you to find out what steps to take and how to sustain that growth.
Two free ‘BREAKING BIG’ seminars, from noon till 2pm on Monday 13 October at the Woodbury Park Hotel, Exeter and from 7.30am to 10am on Tuesday 4th November at Boringdon Park Golf Club, Plymouth will show you how to review where your business is right now and decide where it should be going. Then you can start taking the right steps straight away to achieve breakthrough...
Around 100 tickets have already been sold for an ‘Evening with Jenny Agutter’ in Tavistock with event organisers urging people to get their tickets as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
The star of BBC series Call the Midwife and The Railway Children is due to visit Tavistock on 25th October for a special screening of her film, The Riddle of the Sands.
The Taunton-born actress who has a home on the Lizard in Cornwall has been a patron of children’s charity CHICKS, who will be benefitting from the event, for many years.
