Help is at hand for community groups in Exeter with the opening up of a Strategic Fund to help pay for the refurbishment of community buildings.
From Monday 15 March, community groups can apply for up to £75,000 from Exeter City Council’s Strategic Fund.
To be eligible for this one-off grant, groups will need to be close to completing their fundraising target and have their refurbishment project ‘on the shelf’ and ready to go.
Groups will need to have a validated business case and project delivery plan agreed with their board or trustees.
People across Exeter can now take part in a study to assess the effect of ash dieback disease on the landscape of the city.
Three fixed camera points have been installed at three locations across the city where ash dieback will have an impact.
Members of the public are now being encouraged to take photographs from the fixed posts to capture Exeter’s changing landscape over the coming months and years. The pictures, will capture changes to the treescape and will help inform decisions about future plantings across the city.
Gallagher Premiership rugby players Joe Simmonds, Jack Maunder and Tom O’Flaherty delighted families from Children’s Hospice South West, surprising them at an evening story time session.
Keen to give back to the local community, the Exeter Chiefs players popped up unexpectedly via Zoom to read bedtime stories to children with life-limiting conditions and their families who are cared for by their local hospice, as well as bereaved families who still have strong links with their hospice. The children and their families were treated to a reading of Jack Maunder’s motivational kids’...
The United Kingdom has always been London to the global market, and to itself. There have been efforts made to move outside of the capital. Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested temporarily moving the Houses of Parliament to York, for instance, while the Palaces of Westminster received repair work. Birmingham and Leeds have been fertile grounds for business recently too.
One industry which is thriving outside of London is tech. Post-Brexit, there is hope that London continues to remain a beacon for tech start-ups. However, in the South West, start-ups have started to choose...
Kensa Heat Pumps , the south west’s largest low carbon heating employer, has joined forces with Exeter Chiefs Rugby Club , the south west’s leading sports team, as an Official Supporter for the 2021/22 Gallagher Premiership Rugby season.
Headquartered in Cornwall, but with offices minutes from Sandy Park in Exeter, Kensa Heat Pumps is the UK’s leading manufacturer, supplier and installer of ground source heat pumps, a renewable technology that delivers low cost and low carbon heating to properties across the UK. The Kensa Heat Pumps name will appear on the back of the Chief’s...
Residents at RMBI Care Co. Home Cadogan Court, in Exeter, were delighted to be able to meet their loved ones in person for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
The Home has opened its doors to family visits, following new guidance from the government, which allows each care home resident to receive visits from one family member or loved one.
One of the first residents to be reunited with her daughter in person is Brenda Evans, aged 91. She said: “It was lovely to see my daughter Holly once again and hold her hand. It’s so nice to be in the same room together...
Preparations are well underway for the roll-out of the full fibre network through the recently awarded contracts from the Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme.
Around 56,000 homes and businesses will be provided with access to Gigabit capable broadband by internet providers Airband, Truespeed and Wessex Internet.
While most of the construction is expected to start in the autumn, Wessex Internet is due to start building the first links to its network in the Galhampton area of South Somerset in mid-April. This main framework, known as the “backhaul network” will...
For any business with an online presence, monitoring your conversion rate is important because conversion is what gets you customers, sales, and leads. The conversion rate is the percentage of users who have taken action on your website divided by the total number of site visitors. If 1,000 customers come to your site and 5 of them sign up for an account, you have a 0.5% conversion rate. Ideally, your goal should be to increase your conversion rate since this could directly translate to profit and brand loyalty.
The past 12 months have exacted a terrible toll on both our population and our economy – but with vaccine delivery progressing well and a roadmap to reopening now defined, thoughts are rightly turning to recovery. But let’s be clear – recovery has to be about more than regaining lost ground. Instead, we must aim higher.
If the Covid-19 pandemic has delivered one unexpected positive, it has been a chance to reassess. With so much of our traditional activity on hold, we have had an opportunity to take stock, to re-evaluate our future,...
Modern-day businesses are incredibly competitive and actively adapting to the world of digital media. Companies nowadays are adopting advanced methods of carrying on business by utilising the power of programming and coding to their advantage. One such adoption is the Agile framework upon which the Scrum system is based. The scrum system is a simultaneous and incremental method of managing projects so that efficiency, accuracy, and delivery speed can be ensured. Scrum systems have thus become widely popular owing to their productivity.
