Managed Service Provider and South West based IT Experts Bluegrass Group are delighted to announce that they have won Best Community IT Provider South West England in the 2021 UK Enterprise Awards run by SME News.
David Thomas Joint MD comments “2020 was not the year that any of us expected. One of the toughest most businesses have ever experienced in fact. Which is why winning this award means even more to us.
"The Exeter and South West community is our home, it’s incredibly important to us and throughout the pandemic we were determined to support businesses within the...
An Exeter-based company with over 25 years in oilfield innovation has been honoured with the highest accolade a business can receive – The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade.
A world leading designer and manufacturer of products for the upstream oil and gas industry, AnTech, which has its headquarters in Exeter and a presence in Texas and Saudi Arabia, is one of just 205 organisations nationally to be recognised with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise, and is in fact the only company in Exeter to receive one.
Projects, teams and individuals from across the South West are in the running to win at the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Awards for Planning Excellence 2021 , it has been announced.
Finalists from the South West at this year’s RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence are
Interactive Plymouth Plan, submitted by Plymouth City Council (Excellence in Tech within Planning Practice)
Transformation of groundbreaking plan into fully interactive website; a portal to the plan’s strategic vision and policies as well as its delivery and monitoring
Exeter Cathedral School is once again celebrating the success of its Year 8 pupils, all of whom have been awarded places to leading senior schools, with 84% of pupils achieving at least one award.
Pupils have been offered a range of awards and places including some with double or triple scholarships. Reflecting the breadth of the curriculum on offer at ECS, awards have been offered for Music, Sport, Art, Academic, Performing Arts, Vocal and even the prestigious Peter Hurford Award for an organ scholar!
Mr Meeke, Head of Scholarships and Enrichment is incredibly proud of...
Three rising stars in civil engineering have received prestigious Young Achiever awards from the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) South West.
Peter Boden, who lives in Exeter , was named the south west’s most promising trainee civil engineer; Aiden Shipp, from Paignton , the most promising trainee quantity surveyor; and Sam Beer, from Exeter , the most promising apprentice. They were recognised for their success at a pre-lockdown COVID-secure event sponsored by BAM Nuttall.
Peter , aged 26, who works for Dyer and Butler in Exeter, received the accolade...
Well-known West Country winery, Sharpham Wine, has taken a clutch of top awards at WineGB , a major competition for British wines, which has this year been showcasing the fact that the UK is now regarded as one of most exciting wine regions in the world.
Sharpham Wine, which won a total of four medals at this year’s recently announced WineGB Awards including GOLD for Sharpham Bacchus ‘Stop Ferment’ 2019 and Sharpham Pinot Noir 2018, is presently undergoing an exciting new expansion in conjunction with the Sandridge Barton Winery just across the River Dart. Sharpham also won a...
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) annual Beer Awards has named Salcombe Brewery’s Speyside Island Street Porter as the best beer of its kind in Britain. SIBA’s annual competition, held digitally for the first time, attracted entries of just under 500 beers from more than 180 different breweries, into 15 beer categories.
John Tiner, founder of Salcombe Brewery, comments “This is an amazing tribute to the creativity and technical prowess of our brilliant young brewers’ led by Sam Beaman, in just our third full year of operation.”
Blue Flags will be flying high above the beaches of Sidmouth and Exmouth from this week and these beaches, along with Seaton and Budleigh have also won prestigious Seaside Awards too ranking them among England’s best in the country.
Environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy give the awards in recognition of beaches in England that achieve the highest standards of beach management and, in the case of bathing beaches, meet the required standards for water quality.
This year, Sidmouth wins the prestigious Blue Flag for the first time and Exmouth retains the award for a second...
Two Exeter climate scientists have received prestigious awards from the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS).
Professor Adam Scaife and Professor Richard Betts MBE, both of the University of Exeter and the Met Office, have won the Buchan Prize and the Climate Science Communications Award respectively.
The Buchan Prize recognises Professor Scaife’s recent work on the atmospheric dynamics behind seasonal predictions, published in Society journals and “adjudged to contain the most important original contribution or contributions to meteorology”.
Taste of the West, the South West’s prestigious food, drink and hospitality awards, has announced its winners of 2020. With over 700 products to judge across the West Country, Good Game has been awarded five gold awards; Organic Culatello, Organic Lomo, Organic Coppa, Salami and Pepperoni.
Judged by the most astute palates of chefs, restauranteurs, buyers, retailers and food writers, Taste of the West is renowned for being the most respected accreditation for artisan producers, cafés and restaurants. The unmistakable logo is a clear signal for an outstanding product that has met...
