If there’s one factor almost all businesses have in common, it’s a desire to cut costs without a loss in quality when it comes to customer service or the standard of your products. While this might sound like wishful thinking, when you start to look at the details there are often plenty of changes you can make that will add up to big savings. Want to find out more? Here are four top tips that can make a noticeable difference to your budget.
Market Wisely
Advertising often eats into company budgets quite considerably, however there’s often a better way to market your products or...
National Highways and The Wildlife Trusts have joined forces to launch a new £6 million Network for Nature programme that will improve habitats across the South West of England benefitting people, nature and wildlife.
The projects will help create, restore and connect places for wildflowers, trees and wildlife, where the environment has been impacted by activities from previous road building. Natural solutions such as wetlands and reedbeds will help filter polluted run-off from roads.
Wild areas which have been fragmented by highways will be improved and restored for...
Crowdfunder appeal launched to install a Library Card Music Player device in Exeter Library for the Summer Reading Challenge.
The Library Card Music Player Project, which was originally funded by the Arts Council England, allowed for the building and installing of three music-generating devices that have been installed into three different libraries in the UK. Each device plays a short melody created from a borrower’s library card and, every time a borrower uses the card, they will hear the same tune.
The Summer Reading Challenge , presented by The Reading Agency and funded by...
A talented Exeter School pupil has been selected for the prestigious National Youth Theatre. Emily who is in Year Ten, is taking Drama at GCSE and recently started LAMDA acting lessons which are offered at school. She has taken part in many Exeter School productions since joining in Year Three, including the recent performance of ‘The Odyssey’.
Emily attended an NYT audition day held at Exeter School for pupils in March. This involved a three-hour workshop followed by an individual audition with a NYT director where she had to perform a monologue of her choice. Emily found out...
Every business needs an employee attendance policy. As you would expect, it basically outlines the rules concerning employee attendance.
That includes things like tardiness, no-shows, and job abandonment. You can also build things like paid time off and leave management into your policy.
It can take time and effort to get your employee attendance policy right, but the process will run much more smoothly when you follow these helpful tips.
Begin by Creating a Simple Set of Rules
When crafting your attendance policy, you need to come up with a set of rules...
After a 2-year travelling hiatus, Britons have been itching to get abroad for the summer of '22. But many holidaymakers' plans have been foiled by a simple administrative hurdle. Cue the bureaucratic nightmare that is renewing your passport!
Unsurprisingly, in the wake of Covid and the fallout from Brexit, the Passport Office has been swamped with passport applications. The reason: many of us did not contemplate travelling during the pandemic. Since we have emerged from lockdown, some 5 million people realised that they needed to renew their passports!
An Exeter based business that was founded in 2016 has quickly grown into the UK’s biggest recruitment agency for the veterinary industry and is on track to double in size over the next 12 months, as well as establishing an overseas client base.
JHP Recruitment was founded by Justin Powlesland and now employs a team of 12 at offices at Airport Business Park. The company specialises in recruiting both permanent and locum vets and nurses, as well as other staff, for veterinary practices throughout the UK and is now winning an increasing amount of work in both Europe and the USA....
Bitcoin has been around for a while now, and its popularity is only increasing. More and more people are beginning to see the potential of this digital currency, and as a result, its value is rising. If you're thinking about investing in Bitcoin, now might be a perfect time. Here are some detailed benefits of Bitcoin that are grabbing many investors into it. But first, you can also explore Bitcoin Decoder for further information.
1. It's Decentralized
One of the main reasons why Bitcoin is so appealing to investors is because it's decentralized. That means there is no central...
Madeleine Millington, current Chair of the volunteer committee that has run this event for over 40 years, told us how delighted everyone was to be able to stage the festival this year after the pandemic had made it impossible for the past two summers.
‘We will have the usual array of high-quality work from Westcountry craftspeople and artists on Exeter’s beautiful Cathedral Green on the 7th, 8th and 9th of July, and all the exhibitors are really excited to be back in front of the public again,’ she said.
Crafters featured include Becky Crawford, who makes joyful mobiles...
