Redrow West Country site manager in running to win top industry accolade Redrow site manager Steve Damerell has won a prestigious industry award for his top quality work at the Stanbury Meadows development in Newton Abbot. Steve, from Plymouth, was one of just 430 site managers to receive the Pride in the Job ‘Quality’ Awards from the NHBC (National House Building Council) last year. He is now in the running for the final stage, the Supreme Awards, and will be attending an awards ceremony in London on Friday 26th January. Highlighting excellence in the field for 35 years, Pride in the Job...
Jimmy Stevens, just 11 years of age, who lives in Exeter, was the runner-up in the United Kingdom Aquired Brain Injury Forum (UKABIF) Short Film Award.
Announced last month, the Award, which is sponsored by Elysium Healthcare, is worth £250.
The lighthearted and entertaining film produced by Jimmy highlights the impact of his brain injury, and the difficulties of coming to terms with a new way of life.
Using Lego characters Jimmy illustratres how different his life has become since his ABI, how he is rising to the challenges in his everyday life, and how determined...
Leading local advice charity, Citizens Advice Exeter, is delighted to announce that Dennis Mardon has received the 2017 annual Hazel Ball Volunteer of the Year Award.
The award bears the name of our friend and colleague, Hazel Ball, who we sadly lost in 2015. Hazel first joined our Board in 1980, and was a vocal advocate for the work of our charity throughout her career and in retirement.
Dennis was recognised for his contribution as Chair of the charity’s trustee board, and for his dedication to the work of the Charity.
The Exeter and Heart of Devon (EHOD) Shared Economic Strategy, which defines the joint growth ambitions of four local authorities and their collective aims to increase competitiveness and improve productivity in the area, has won the ‘Most Innovative Strategy’ award from the Institute of Economic Development (IED). The 2017-20 strategy, launched last year after 12 months of planning, brought together representatives from East Devon, Exeter City, Mid Devon and Teignbridge councils. Each local authority has subsequently taken ownership of one of four common economic initiatives: business...
An initiative to improve the health and wellbeing of people in Exeter has been recognised with a top national award. Wellbeing Exeter has won a prestigious National Health Service Journal award at a ceremony in London – the largest of its type in the world. The Integrated Care Exeter (ICE) initiative was successful in the ‘Most effective adoption and diffusion of existing best practice’ category. For 36 years the HSJ Awards have promoted the finest achievements in the NHS, and showcased them to the service’s most influential leaders and the wider public. Wellbeing Exeter explores better...
Property Search Group’s Southernhay Life campaign has won the Silver award for best Corporate and Business Communications Campaign, at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations PRide Awards in Bristol.
The award was presented to PR and marketing agency Astley Media for its work with Property Search Group’s Somerset and Plymouth offices, and legal firms in the Exeter area, to raise funds for the Fire Appeal following the blaze that destroyed the city’s Royal Clarence Hotel.
The awards cover the whole of the South of England from Kent and Sussex to Cornwall and the Isles of...
The search to find the South West’s most inspirational and community beneficial property projects is now on, following the opening of entries for the RICS Awards 2018, South West.
The annual RICS Awards celebrate the region’s top built initiatives and developments - in land, real estate, construction and infrastructure - that provide significant value to the communities they serve. Every year the esteemed awards attract hundreds of entries from all over the South West including small-scale dynamic projects, and large multi-million pound developments.
Today (18 October 2017), 33 Healthcare Workers who provide excellent care across the UK have been announced as finalists and regional winners for Skills for Health’s Our Health Heroes Awards 2017, including one from Headway Devon - the local brain injury charity.
The Our Health Heroes Awards, sponsored by Health Education England, were established in 2016 and aim to celebrate the unsung healthcare heroes from across the UK, including those working in the NHS, that go above and beyond in their roles every day.
Steve Dearsley, Community Support Services Supervisor at Headway...
On Thursday 12th October, representatives from five schools in Devon received a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) Licensed Organisation certificate from celebrity presenter, Philip Schofield at St James’s Palace in London.
The five schools, Exeter College, Teign School, Honiton College, Uffculme School and The King’s School received their licence to deliver The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award alongside 100 young people from the South West who were receiving their Gold Award at a Gold Award Presentation.
The DofE is widely acknowledged as the world’s leading achievement award for...
A cafe in Exeter called 'Wild Stuff' has been nominated for a national award which has been launched by Lansinoh. The awards are designed to celebrate places and people across the country supporting breastfeeding mums.
In 2015, 776,950 babies were born in the UK. Yet just 0.5% of UK mums are breastfeeding their newborn at 12 months, despite recommendations from the World Health Organisation to continue breastfeeding into your baby's second year. With British breastfeeding rates among the worst in the world, could the culprit be society’s attitudes towards breastfeeding?
