To the delight of adult learners across Devon and Cornwall, Pitman Training, the UK’s best- recognised training provider, is set to officially open its first training centre in Exeter on Friday 2nd July. The centre will provide students access to over 250 self-paced, flexible training courses and aims to help people improve their prospects, gain promotions or get back into work.
Pitman Training has enjoyed an unrivalled reputation as an elite training provider for over 180 years, most famously known for offering the first course in shorthand. With courses ranging from business...
Early stage start-ups, innovators and tech entrepreneurs are invited to apply for Pitchfest, a pitching competition run as part of South West Innovation Expo on 14th October 2021 at Sandy Park, Exeter. Successful applicants will have the chance to present their start-up or innovation to an audience of investors, business leaders and other entrepreneurs.
Pitchfest offers start-up companies 5-minute slots to present their business as well as a free exhibition stand providing them with additional opportunities to meet and network with SW Innovation Expo delegates.
Have you deleted some of your crucial files and now want them back? Worry not! You can quickly recover your data. When you permanently delete the files using the Shift+Del key, emptying the Recycle bin, or formatting the storage drive, the files get lost and become inaccessible to you. But the files remain on the storage drive intact. Only the file pointers get deleted, making the files permanently lost to you.
However, if you have the backup of your data, it’d be pretty easy for you to get your files back. But if you’ve lost the files permanently and don’t even have the backup,...
The last year has not been easy on anyone and even more so young people. The pandemic caused the institution of restrictions on movements and social gatherings, which profoundly impacted the work and school environment. There were nearly a quarter of 18-year-olds unemployed by the end of 2020, likewise, almost a quarter of young people declared that their education was one of the most daunting aspects that they were concerned about during the past 12 months.
Research from Speakers for Schools lends insight into the growing popularity of virtual work experience. The organization...
Are you looking to plan an event to bring your friends, family, or community together? A firework display could be the answer. With fun for every guest, plus the chance to potentially raise money for charity with an admittance fee, a firework show could be ideal. If you are considering putting on your own event Let's Party Fireworks are here to help. In this post, they will detail the ways to find the best venues for a firework night, so you can get a head start in your planning.
What should you look for in a fiework night venue?
If you would want to be an Instagram influencer or you are wondering how to steadily build your Instagram followers then, read this article to the very end. You will get simple and result-proven steps you can start practicing today.
Attracting a buzz of followers to your social media account is not as difficult as it looks if you know the buttons to press and you are willing to put in the work. Prior to now, influence marketing was only limited to popular celebrities, musicians, public figures and bloggers but now, anyone with a good following on social media can be an influencer...
The Manistee Hiawatha National Forest is overwhelmingly green, breathtakingly beautiful and makes sense, the way it moves in quiet synchronous music.
The beauty of pure nature
The forest never wonders what's next, or how, or when change will come. Nature has its way here. There are no clocks clanging your very existence, or ticking out the cadence of your life. Time moves differently in the forest.
Serenity & Nature
Rivers run rampantly throughout the forest, feeding small lakes, echoing freshwater springs. All you can hear is birds, squirrels, and...
Exeter resident, Adam Garratt, is part of a new portrait series called ‘Ticket To Your Happy Place’ shot by photographer Tom Oldham and commissioned by The National Lottery. The portrait series celebrates all the places that make us happy, that we love to visit, and have missed over the past year. Adam’s happy place is the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery in Exeter.
The portraits have been commissioned to celebrate The National Lottery Open Week, which offers discounts and free entry at participating venues from 5 -13 June, and The National Lottery Cinema Weekend,...
During June, NHS doctors from Pinhoe and Broadclyst Medical Practice have opted to leave their cars at home in favour of using Co Bike e-bikes for home visits and travel between practices.
Dr Emily Hay, GP registrar and Dr Harry Edwards, GP, together with eight other doctors from the surgery, are keen to look at alternative, carbon neutral ways to travel. With home visits on the rise and journeys often short, the practical and sustainable solution is to travel by bike.
The GPs therefore approached Co Bikes about conducting a trial with surgery staff. Because the bikes...
New figures suggest that there are now more than 130,000 people in Devon who are carers, the figure having risen by half again because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Worryingly though, just 21,000 of that number – roughly only one in every six – are accessing vital information and support that is available to them.
This week is Carers Week, and Devon County Council, NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Devon Carers are shining a light on it to encourage people who are carers for friends and family to recognise themselves as unpaid carers, and to come forward...
