Grants of between £2,000 and £10,000* are available for schools in Devon to develop creative and engaging learning experiences that will develop students' skills in enterprise and innovation.
Devon County Council's Enterprise in Schools Grant (EiSG) programme is open to state funded and primary schools benefitting Year 6 pupils and above.
Applications must be received by 12:00 noon on Friday 26 June 2015. Grant funds must be spent and claimed by 31 March 2016.
The programme is designed to help Devon’s schools create or expand educational opportunities within the...
Private sector activity in the South West continued to rise in May, according to the latest PMI® survey data.
The rate of expansion remained relatively strong but eased to the weakest since February, mainly reflecting the slowest growth of new business since April 2013. Charges for goods and services rose slightly, having declined in March and April, but overall inflationary pressures remained weak.
The seasonally adjusted Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking South West Business Activity Index fell for the second consecutive month to 55.1 in May, from 56.0 in April, indicating...
Exeter is experiencing an unprecedented demand for high quality office space that must be met to maximise growing interest from businesses looking to invest in the city, according to leading property consultancy JLL.
Speaking at Invest in Exeter’s launch tomorrow (June 4), the first event to be held at the new Exeter Science Park Centre, Andrew Pearce, director at JLL`s Exeter office agency team, will say that the city has good reason to be optimistic about the future.
However, he will say that with construction cost inflation at record levels rents need to rise to...
Innovative local digital startup Krowdthink and the Plymouth and Devon Chamber are partnering to make the networking opportunity at the Plymouth Business Show on Wednesday 17 June at Plymouth Pavilions, a fantastically enhanced digital experience for exhibitors and visitors.
The Krowd app is a new form of social network service for connecting people in places.
It helps users discover more people with shared interests in a crowd and connect with them. In addition it provides a location-based instant-on chat forum, so exhibitors and delegates can engage in a digital...
The Exeter PA Network invites you to join us for an interactive, engaging evening of fun and learning with Business Coach and Personal Development Consultant, Judy Salmon in the elegant Victorian surrounds of The Rougemont, Thistle, in central Exeter.
The aim of the evening is to reaffirm how important you are to your organisation and the value you bring to it. The evening will also equip you with tools to effectively communicate and demonstrate this to your organisation, so that you are appropriately recognised and rewarded for everything you do.
Buckfast Abbey would like to invite you for a VIP tour of their new accommodation and conference centre on
Tuesday June 9th 17:00 – 19:00 or Thursday June 11th 17:00 – 19:00
- Champagne reception - Tour of new Northgate House Accommodation - Tour of Buckfast Abbey Conference Centre - Introduction to Buckfast Abbey - Sampling of Buckfast Abbey Conference Centre Menu
If you want to strike success in a business meeting- offer a plate of shortbread, new research reveals.
A study of 2,000 business workers found one in four say they’re more inclined to close a deal in a meeting because of the biscuits provided, with shortbread, chocolate bourbons and flapjacks all likely to win a favourable reaction.
In fact, having the right selection of snacks was deemed more crucial to meeting success than making good small talk beforehand, the study found.
And while it's easy to take the biscuit, there are unwritten rules- waiting for the...
The company which runs one of Ilfracombe’s largest employers has been bought by an American giant for $13.8billion.
Pall Corporation has been acquired by Danaher Corporation but will continue to operate under the Pall brand, making filtration, separation and purification technologies.
The Pall factory in Station Road employs several hundred people but it is not known if the deal will have any effect on the North Devon workforce.
It is understood the board of directors at both American-based companies unanimously agreed to the deal, which must now be ratified by Pall...
Tourism Society Westcountry’s next meeting is on June 11th at Castle Drogo to discuss the ‘Gove effect’ and what can be done to address the huge loss of business now being seen in the region. The so-called 'Gove Effect' has had a huge impact on tourism in the Westcountry over the last 18 months, with changes to Education Regulations introduced by Michael Gove applying tighter restrictions on holidays in term time.
This has resulted in an £87 million loss of business to the visitor economies of Devon and Cornwall, stemming from families no longer booking term time trips and the...
HSL, the UK’s leading comfort furniture specialist, is arriving in Exeter this month, with a brand new store having just opened in Duns Business Centre on Trusham Road in Marsh Barton.
Manufacturing high quality, handmade back-care furniture for more than 40 years, the new Orpington store is the fourteenth HSL outlet to open in the last 12 months, cementing the company’s commitment to offering outstanding customer service and a wide selection of excellent quality products, in a huge choice of styles and fabrics, that provide value for money.
