Investment Management firm Redmayne Bentley’s Exeter office was recognised at the 2020 City of London Wealth Management Awards (COLWMA), the firm was named Regional Wealth Manager of the Year: Southern England.
This year’s award saw a record-breaking number of almost 33,500 votes placed by investors.
Individual awards were also presented to Redmayne Bentley staff: Darren Hirsh Outstanding - Individual Achievement and Fraser Robb - Exceptional Customer Service.
Denis Oppong, Head of the Exeter office, said: “We are grateful to our clients in the region who have...
Devon County Council has pledged that it will do everything it can to help local businesses through the coronavirus outbreak and ensure a strong recovery for the local economy.
The authority is encouraging businesses to visit the Heart of the South West Growth Hub to find essential information on available support and advice.
The Growth Hub, which is delivered by the County Council on behalf of the HotSW Local Enterprise Partnership, can help provide businesses with details of the Government’s proposals on Business Rate Relief and how eligible businesses can apply for...
A charity dedicated to improving the lives of residents in Paignton and the surrounding villages has been given a cash boost by a regional builder to help with its work.
Persimmon Homes South West, based in Exeter, donated £1,000 to the Thrive Project Community Hub through its Community Champions scheme.
The Thrive Project is a community hub run by unpaid volunteers. It offers support to approximately 60 people per week, in the guise of food, clothes, computer and phone use, care of address, activities, referrals, specialist drop ins, sourcing accommodation, goods,...
A support service has been launched in Exeter to help people through the coronavirus outbreak.
Exeter Community Wellbeing has been set up to offer help and support to communities including those individuals who are self-isolating as a result of the virus.
At the same time a £1 million community action fund has also been launched by Exeter City Council and Exeter Chiefs Community Foundation to enable community groups and organisations to get rapid access to small grants to allow them to work on local projects to support those people and communities most affected by the...
Exeter based print firm Stormpress are offering free support to local shops, hospitality and leisure businesses struggling during the Coronavirus outbreak. The print company have offered to print up to 1000 free A5 flyers for up to 50 local businesses to help them get the message out to customers during this difficult time.
Henry Luce, Managing Director of Stormpress, Henry Luce said: “We were receiving emails from local businesses who had decided to move online or start home deliveries and they were clearly struggling to get that message out there. We felt we were in a unique...
Despite devastating natural disasters or deadly viruses and often because of them, dedicated authors keep on writing and producing books for their readers' pleasure.
Former Exeter College student Fay Knowles (nee Johanson) has just released "Deadly Deceit In Paradise", Book Two in her Buchanan Mystery Romance Series (her sixth published book). The first in the series is "Dangerous Devotion" (formerly "Love at Sunset").
"Deadly Deceit In Paradise" tells how a mysterious death in paradise leads a young woman down a path that will determine her future. Natalie Barrett flies...
Social care and social work teams at Devon County Council are redeploying staff from non-critical services to essential frontline services in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
It’s to ensure that vulnerable people, young or old, are able to continue accessing the services they need.
Customer service staff at Care Direct, which is the route for adults into Devon County Council’s social work services, have seen telephone calls rise sharply over the last few weeks, as the public comes to terms with the impact of the virus. They’ve taken hundreds of calls from vulnerable...
Scientists and clinicians in Exeter are part of a £20 million investment to unlock the secrets of COVID-19 They will use the University’s state of the art equipment to ensure samples from Devon patients help to combat the disease.
Scientists at the University of Exeter and the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) are part of a group of the country’s leading institutions who are joining together to sequence the virus from patients throughout the UK. By knowing the sequence it will be possible to know both how it is changing (or mutating) and also to map the...
Body positivity has really taken off in the past few years, seeing people of all genders take to social media to embrace all the ways their bodies don’t fit into the idealised image of the “perfect” body.
And now, the latest research by cruelty-free hair removal brand Nad’s suggests that, for people in Exeter, the idea of a “perfect” body is very much in the eye of the beholder anyway!
The survey revealed that just 3% of Exeter residents believe men should aspire to the “Love Island” body image. When broken down between genders, the UK results were even more startling,...
Exeter Chiefs prop Harry Williams admits it was an ‘easy decision’ to put pen to paper on a new long-term deal with the current Gallagher Premiership leaders.
The England international has been at Sandy Park since 2015, joining the Devon club from Championship outfit Jersey Reds, and he has since established himself as an integral part of the much-vaunted Chiefs pack of forwards.
Part of the club’s Premiership-winning side of 2017, the 28-year-old tight-head has made just shy of 100 first-team appearances, scoring ten tries in the process.
