A new collaboration has been announced between Tech South West and Microsoft in a bid to enhance digital skills in the region.
The project will provide South West tech companies with opportunities to access training for their teams and develop technical skills within their organisations. Support will also be provided for those looking to switch to a career in tech, or grow their tech business via the Tech South West StartUp and ScaleUp Studios.
Research conducted this year by Tech South West revealed that 55% of tech companies in the region cite “lack of candidates” as...
Westcotts Chartered Financial Planners, part of the Westcotts group, has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointment of a new director.
Andrew Hammond (pictured) has been recruited by the practice, bringing more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services sector. He is responsible for supporting the strategic growth and future direction of Westcotts Chartered Financial Planners, alongside his fellow directors.
As well as holding the position of director with the financial planning arm, Andrew joins as partner of Westcotts, the South West’s...
Financial experts Old Mill have appointed highly experienced tax specialist Chris Watts as Associate Director in the Capital Tax Advisory Team.
A qualified member of the Association of Accounting Technicians, Chartered Institute of Taxation and Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Chris has 26 years’ experience in the industry, with particular expertise in highly complex tax structures and the tax rules around emerging assets.
The 43-year-old started his career in 1996 when he joined PKF-Francis Clark as an apprentice. He worked his way up from tax trainee to Tax...
Employees from an Exeter-based company are taking part in a month-long walkathon to raise money for Brain Tumour Research .
A 25-strong team from Shipman Financial Planning is aiming, with the help of 10 others from parent company Amber River, to walk more than 40,000 kilometres (24,901 miles) throughout September – the equivalent distance of travelling around the world.
The team from Shipman is fundraising for Brain Tumour Research after financial administrative assistant, Louise Pickering lost her mum, Angela Linnell to the disease 26 years ago.
The Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has announced a £2 million investment in the Environmental Living Lab, enabling the trial and demonstration of sustainable agricultural and environmental technology in the South West.
The funding will support the Satellite Applications Catapult to establish an Environmental Living Lab within the Heart of the South West area (Somerset, Devon, Plymouth and Torbay). The lab will enable the collaboration between the space sector and the agriculture and environmental sectors to trial new solutions, and demonstrate...
The South West’s leading independent commercial waste management and recycling firm DCW has acquired electrical collection and recycling company Collectrical.
After facing the challenges of a tough economy, Plymouth-based social enterprise Collectrical has been acquired by DCW, allowing DCW to expand the scope of its services in electrical waste management and grow its client base across Devon and Cornwall.
In addition to benefitting from the regular services that Collectrical provides, including appliance repair, stripping equipment for spare parts and donations of...
Sustainable farming robots, feminist videogames and an AI-powered property transparency platform are among the technologies being developed by the finalists for the Tech South West Awards 2022.
Now in their fourth year, the awards celebrate the best in tech from across the South West including Bristol, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire.
The judging process involved a full day in Exeter deliberating with the judges to reach the final shortlist. There were almost 300 entries to this year’s awards from across the region...
Westcotts, a UK top 50 firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers, has relocated its offices in Okehampton to new larger premises from today (Wednesday 21 September).
Formerly known as Thomas Westcott, the firm’s seven strong team (pictured) will be based at new premises on Cranmere Road, Exeter Road Business Park on the outskirts of the Devon market town.
The move to bigger, more open-plan facilities from its previous location on West Street was marked with a small celebration for the team led by the firm’s partner Sarah Watts who manages the Okehampton office...
International, independent real estate consultancy Hollis has relocated to a flexible working space in Exeter’s central business district. The move to a more agile workspace aligns with the adoption of hybrid working and prioritising the evolving needs of employees in the post-pandemic world.
Working across all sectors and providing a range of services including dilapidations, project management, technical due diligence and tenant alterations throughout the local and national marketplace, Hollis Exeter has key relationships with numerous public and private sector clients...
Long-standing independent Devon-based company Wistman’s Ltd., specialists in bespoke joinery and carpentry, celebrates its 25th business milestone with a re-brand and move from Dartmouth to larger premises at Heathfield Industrial Estate, Newton Abbot.
Formerly known as Rendle & Elliott Carpentry & Joinery Ltd., the company was established in Dartmouth in 1997 by Adrian Rendle and Wayne Elliott. Today it is known as Wistman’s Ltd.,
working with both private customers and commercial clients across the South West and the UK. Wistman’s provides a completely personal...
