Local homebuilder Barratt David Wilson Homes Exeter has recently donated £1,500 to Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), the leading provider of screening and cardiac testing for young people aged 14-35. The donation is part of the developers community fund initiative.
The Barratt Developments community fund initiative looks to support those causes which have a positive impact within their local communities. CRY has been providing specialist cardiac screening to young people and athletes since 1995. CRY has been working to reduce the frequency of young sudden cardiac death and...
South West financial experts Old Mill have been named as one of England’s leading apprenticeship employers by the Department of Education. The Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers independently assesses and ranks the nation’s leading apprenticeship employers based on the success of their apprenticeship programmes - specifically their commitment to creating new apprenticeships, the diversity of their apprentices, and the number who successfully achieve their apprenticeships.
Old Mill, which has offices in Exeter, Chippenham Wells and Yeovil, has been running an apprenticeship scheme...
From Sunday 3rd September 2023 Stagecoach South West are improving a number of bus services with new timetables introduced across the South West.
In Exeter, several bus services are enhanced and extra journeys introduced in partnership with Devon County Council and a number of high frequency bus corridors will be introduced.
In North Devon better connections are provided across Bideford and in South Devon, working with Devon County Council, the local bus operator has doubled the frequency of buses between Dartmouth and Totnes on service 92. Service 1A between Sherford...
IWG , the world’s largest provider of hybrid working solutions with brands including Spaces and Regus, is opening a state-of-the-art flexible HQ workspace in Exeter as the demand for hybrid working rapidly accelerates. This opening is being delivered in partnership with Matford Business Centres, which has entered into a managed partnership agreement with IWG.
Unprecedented demand from companies of all sizes and workers looking for hybrid working solutions means IWG will add 1,000 new locations over the next year. Hybrid working offers companies a significantly lower cost base...
Local McDonald’s Crew member, Louise Wyatt will be attending the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ Final in Australia at the end of this month after being recognised for her hard work.
Exeter Franchisee, David Shawyer, nominated Louise Wyatt for the trip of a lifetime as they will travel along with four other employees from across the McDonald’s UK & Ireland network to watch two teams battle it out for the biggest prize in women’s football.
McDonald’s UK & Ireland, as Official FIFA Women’s World Cup™ sponsors, are putting their employees at the heart of the biggest...
Diagnexia has received almost £50,000 funding through the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) for a new digital pathology scanner, helping healthcare organisations connect with specialists around the world.
Diagnexia provides a cutting-edge pathology diagnostics platform which helps hospitals and laboratories refer medical samples to an international network of specialist clinicians, helping to reduce their diagnostic turnaround times and pathology backlogs.
The company is rapidly scaling, and recently expanded its headquarters at Exeter Science...
Unseasonably wet weather has helped one of the South West’s attractions pull in its highest number of visitors since the covid pandemic.
More than 2,100 people visited Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) last Wednesday (2 August).
It wasn’t the first rainy day of the school holidays but the dry conditions and warm welcome from staff at RAMM, certainly proved a hit. The museum and its permanent collections is free for all visitors to explore, although there is a charge for some exhibitions throughout the year.
Positive impact marketing agency welcomes five new clients following recent growth
Exeter and Bristol-based marketing agency Program is celebrating recent growth, welcoming five new clients in recent weeks; IT support provider Acronyms; software development company CoreBlue; Plymouth social enterprise Engaged Communities; multinational hospitality company Accor; and innovative pipeline monitoring company Klarian.
Program is a creative positive impact marketing agency, working with tech, education and infrastructure sectors, including business organisations and government...
Bloor Homes’ Exeter region has a new-look home thanks to the completion of a £2.7 million extension to its Horizon House offices, complete with extended meeting and training and conferencing facilities.
Staff were able to move into the freshly extended offices just as Bloor Homes celebrated the first anniversary of the developer’s newest region, which launched last summer to focus on new developments in Devon and Cornwall.
Regional Managing Director Bradley Davison said: “After a year of working from a combination of a modular building in the car park of the building...
Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, has funded three researchers from the University of Exeter to carry out projects aimed at finding new treatments, boosting early diagnosis, and understanding the disease’s causes.
The £370k grants are part of a wider a £3 million funding announcement that will help to accelerate effective treatments for dementia.
Over the last two decades, Alzheimer’s Research UK has provided funding worth over £3.1m to research at the University of Exeter, which is a major national hub for dementia science.
