The UK’s top equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube will be expanding its operations into the North of England with a new office opening in central Manchester in February. Senior business development manager, Adam Gillett, has been appointed to lead the regional team.
Crowdcube has already helped nine businesses in the North West to raise more than £1.4 million in the last two years, including Ideas Britain which recently secured £270k to launch in the UK. Ideas Britain, based in Manchester, aims to help young British entrepreneurs make their ideas come to life. It has built the...
Browne Jacobson is continuing to expand its presence in the South West with three new fee earner appointments across various practices in its Exeter office in response to a significant rise in instructions from local and national clients.
Experienced Dorset County Council solicitor Jennifer Grigg is joined by Litigation Executive Danny Somers, a former Senior Insurance Consultant from Thrifty Car & Van Rental and Legal Executive Becky Wyld from Devon based Tozers Solicitors.
Jennifer, who is two years qualified, has specialist expertise in pre-procurement issues such as...
Lidl UK’s decision to locate a major regional distribution centre at a site near Exeter Airport is a huge vote of confidence in the area and will prompt other national retailers to follow in its footsteps, says property advisors JLL.
JLL has an office in Exeter and advised Lidl UK in their purchase, advising on the site options and handling negotiations with the vendor of the selected site, Sainsbury’s.
Tim Western, director at JLL, said: “There has been clever investment into this part of East Devon by the public sector and other development partners, including...
Companies across Devon are being offered the chance to take part in the county’s first Fast Track to Growth Programme to help them develop and implement plans for growth in 2016 – for free.
They will receive on-going advice from a range of specialists, and take part in workshops to develop their growth plans ready to then implement. All shortlisted applicants will also have the chance to pitch to a panel of judges, with one company securing a year’s worth of free financial strategy, marketing and PR support, worth £15,000.
For the third year running The Decidedly Different Vintage Wedding Fair at Exeter Castle will be held across two days – a beautiful wedding weekend
Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th January 11am-4pm.
Over 60 vintage & modern wedding inspired suppliers will be attending, watch a live roaming catwalk, get glamorous within the pop-up beauty boudoir and sit down to a spot of lunch at vintage tea party & pop up restaurants, enjoy live entertainment & music plus much, much more....
Many fabulous prizes to be won, gorgeous goody bags and amazing giveaways....
The RSPCA is appealing for information after 14 hamsters found themselves left in the cold outside a block of flats in Exeter at Christmas.
A member of the public was going out shopping on the afternoon of 21 December when they spotted four cages filled with Syrian hamsters on King Street, next to a block of flats.
At first they thought someone must have been moving out and had perched the cages there as a temporary measure, but when they returned several hours later and saw that the cages were still there they realised nobody was coming back for them.
THE number of people joining Christmas services and concerts at Exeter Cathedral increased last month, to 24,500.
There were more people at every service throughout the month, contributing to a ten per cent rise on the numbers attending since last year.
A new service of Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve attracted 500 people and the Cathedral was filled to capacity for the traditional Grandisson service. The figures don’t include the normal weekday or Sunday services, but only special Christmas services and concerts.
The Dean of Exeter Cathedral, the Very Revd Jonathan...
From the acclaimed producers of George’s Marvellous Medicine and Horrible Histories, Birmingham Stage will bring its production of David Walliams’s Gangsta Granny to the Exeter Northcott Theatre in February.
It’s Friday night and Ben knows that means only one thing- staying with Granny! There will be cabbage soup, cabbage pie and cabbage cake and Ben knows one thing for sure- it’s going to be SO boring! But what Ben doesn’t know is that Granny has a secret – and Friday nights are about to get more exciting than he could ever imagine, as he embarks on and adventure of a lifetime...
Exeter locals can find out how they can kick start their New Year’s resolutions by attending a launch event for a brand new five day trek across Iceland to raise money for the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).
The Trek, which will be taking place in October 2016, will be raising vital funds for RNIB and will provide a once in a lifetime opportunity to revel in the beautiful landscape that Iceland has to offer.
Two million people are living with sight loss in the UK and every 15 minutes someone is told they are losing their sight. All funds raised by the...
January is traditionally a bumper month for active resolutions and the Sport England national campaign This Girl Can in association with Active Devon will be encouraging women of all shapes and sizes to try out lots of different ways of getting active.
During a whole month of visits, workshops and other celebratory activities, Active Devon the County Sports Partnership whose emphasis is on grassroots informal community sport & informal activity are especially keen to ensure that local classes and active sessions are really tailored to the needs of women who may be starting out...
