Volunteers at the Exeter Dissenters Graveyard have received £7,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) today, to begin drawing up plans to restore the historical site. The funding granted to the Exeter Dissenters Graveyard Trust will allow volunteers to begin a project to record, investigate and clean the site to preserve it for the future. The project will also eventually see plans drawn up for an overall restoration of the site following the initial work by the trust. Paul chant Secretary of the trust welcomed the funding award, he said: “This is the first stage of our project to...
Do you have a gap between the think and the do of your strategy?
Strategic planning is key to driving business success. A business without an organic strategy that is regularly reviewed and updated will quickly be overtaken by its competitors. A strategically aware business will stay in tune with its environment, ahead of its competition and be able to influence its growth and development.
Delegates will learn to:
* Understand the importance of strategy * Understand the strategic process * Understand the difference between...
Victorious Exeter Chiefs will parade the LV= Cup through Exeter city centre on Saturday, 5 April, the City Council has announced.
Rob Baxter's all-conquering team, together with staff and officials from the club, will travel from St James Park on an open-top double-decker bus.
The bus, provided by Stagecoach, will leave St James Park at 2.30pm, travelling down Sidwell Street and into the High Street, before arriving at the Guildhall at 3pm for a Civic Reception hosted by the Lord Mayor of Exeter, Cllr Rachel Lyons.
Crowds are expected to line the route in a similar...
Almost a year on from its last Sprint Challenge, Princesshay have once again invited South West Athletics Academy to bring its portable track right into the heart of Exeter’s shopping precinct, this time for a very special Sport Relief Sprint Challenge.
The event will be held on Saturday (22 March) from 10am onwards and will see the colourful red and blue track laid out so that shoppers of all ages can come and try their hand at sprinting and jumping.
Wayne Pearce, Princesshay Centre Director said: “We are delighted to be teaming up with South West Athletics Academy to...
South West Communications Group has invited businesses from around the region to take part in a webinar about Internet connectivity.
This third webinar from the Exeter-based connectivity experts, titled “Is broadband business critical?”, is aimed at all businesses that rely on the Internet for their everyday tasks, such as email, web browsing, access to CRMs and other business applications.
South West Communications Group’s connectivity expert Colin Woods will give advice on:
* The limits of broadband designed for domestic use * How businesses use broadband on a day...
Everyone loves the May bank holiday weekend. The sun shines, summer is well on its way and there’s every reason to be happy. Now here’s another! Due to last year’s enormous popularity which saw more than 5,000 people attend, Torquay’s free food festival, TorqEat, has been extended and is set to take place over two days on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th May (10am until 6pm). Visit Torquay’s vibrant Harbourside and Cary Gardens to join in on this taste explosion.
Heading up the fantastic line up of chefs, Simon Hulstone, chef proprietor at Torquay’s Michelin starred restaurant The...
Today is the 10th anniversary of the popular local website, Exeter Memories. Conceived by David Cornforth, who had the idea that a website that accumulated memories of Exeter through the preceding decades, would be of interest for many, and would also become an important social record of Exeter through the last 100 years.
The first memory on the site was from John Moon, who started his memory with “I was one of hundreds of American Sailors shipped in to Exeter serve at the U.S. NAVAL SUPPLY Base, code named JOWL-93. My group arrived in September 1943 and were billeted for a short...
An exhibition for start-ups, entrepreneurs, business owners and corporates wishing to raise brand awareness
Venue: Matford Centre, Marsh Barton, Exeter, EX2 8FD
Date: Thursday 5th June 2014
Time: 12 noon – 17.30
17.30 - 19.00 - After show networking party sponsored by Business Network (SW)
FREE ENTRY FOR DELEGATES
Call: 01392 349 130 for more information or to book a stand
The Devon Business Expo with headline sponsor Basepoint Business Centres, is a new and exciting event with over 100 exhibitors. Aiming to attract 1000...
A body has been found by search teams looking for missing Plymouth man Martin Hough.
The body was discovered by officers at midday near Burrator Reservoir. Officers, members of the Dartmoor Rescue Group and the police helicopter were in the area since Martin Hough, 53, was reported missing to police on Sunday at around 7.15pm. He was last seen at about 9.45am that morning at an address in Rocky Park Road, wearing jeans and a blue/black check shirt and black boots. The death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared on behalf of the coroner.
Michelmores LLP has announced three appointments which further strengthen its nationally recognised agricultural litigation team.
Solicitor Rachel O’Connor joins Michelmores from TLT’s Bristol Office, while Victoria Howlett was previously a solicitor at Burges Salmon. They are joined in Michelmores' Bristol office by barrister, Adam Corbin. Adam was called to the Bar in 2011, then deferred his pupillage at Iscoed Chambers in Swansea for a year to work in the Legal Team for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
