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Exeter site manager recognised as one of the best in the country

A Redrow site manager at St Michael's Meadow has won a top national award for the quality of the homes they’re building in Exeter.

Roy Taylor has won a Pride in the Job award from the National House Building Council (NHBC) for the second consecutive year. This follows his success in 2025 when he achieved the Seal of Excellence in the regional stage of the competition – an accolade awarded to only the top 5% of site managers in the UK.

The awards, often dubbed the ‘Oscars’ of the housebuilding industry, recognise the very best site managers across the country. Judging is...

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Farming recovery programme launched in Devon

A series of workshops are being held in Devon over the next month to help farmers and landowners improve the condition of their soil.

Devon County Council has launched the Farming Recovery programme to help farm businesses to adopt best practice of soil and nutrients management on their land.

Eight workshops, which will be held virtually and in person by Business Information Point (BIP) on behalf of the County Council, will support farmers and landowners to better understand their soils with the aim of improving environmental standards and tackling the current challenges...

Huge drive for green jobs in Devon as council partners with Retrofit Academy to create energy careers

Fully-funded training programmes across all levels are opening up new opportunities in energy-efficiency sector at a crucial time

The Retrofit Academy - one of the UK’s leading not-for-profit training providers - is partnering with Devon County Council to build a skilled green workforce at a time when energy-efficiency roles are more critical than ever.

Drawing on resources made available via the £220m Community Renewal Fund , The Retrofit Academy will deliver a range of fully-funded training programmes intended to create hundreds of careers in the energy sector and...

Free support for small businesses and community groups

A new support programme has been launched by Devon County Council to help small businesses and community groups.

Get Set to Tender is offering free support to Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who have less than 250 employees, to help them respond to public sector organisation tendering opportunities.

The project, which will operate until March 2023, is part of a wider package of support being delivered through Devon’s £6 million recovery programme which aims to provide help and support in four key areas: small and medium enterprises, employment and skills, the green...

Michelmores moves to new state-of-the-art office to facilitate agile working model

Michelmores LLP has today moved its London office to a cutting-edge development at 100 Liverpool Street. Boasting immediate access to Liverpool Street Station alongside shared lounges, cafes, rooftop restaurant, landscaped terraces, meeting rooms and event spaces, the new location enhances the firm’s national offering for its clients and its people.

Michelmores' strategic move to new, state-of-the-art office space reflects its commitment to creating the best possible work/life balance for its people. The firm’s agile working pilot is well underway, allowing its people to guide...

Tesco becomes first supermarket to join defibrillator network that could save lives

Tesco has become the UK’s first supermarket to begin registering its 2190 defibrillators to a new national database that could improve cardiac arrest survival rates in the UK. It is the biggest single addition of defibrillators to the database so far.

The database, called The Circuit: The National Defibrillator Network, aims to map all public access defibrillators, allowing ambulance services to direct bystanders to the nearest registered defibrillator if they see somebody having a cardiac arrest.

There are more than 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year in...

Brewin Dolphin southwest raises over £12,000 for local children’s charity

Wealth manager Brewin Dolphin’s southwest offices (Exeter, Plymouth and Truro) have raised over £12,000 for Farms for City Children, during a two-year partnership with the charity, which began in 2020. The money raised will be able to subsidise around 39 children’s residential stay at a farm for one week.

Employees from all three offices took part in various fundraising activities to raise money, including Christmas auctions and raffles and the Brewin Dolphin 7-Day Challenge, which saw members from the respective offices walk, run or cycle 655 miles collectively over seven days....

Funding awarded to natural capital projects

Six local projects have been awarded funding through Devon County Council’s Natural Capital Challenge Fund.

The £300,000 grant funding pilot scheme launched last year as part of Devon's £6 million recovery programme, which aims to provide help and support in four key areas: small and medium enterprises, employment and skills, the green recovery, and the hardest hit towns and communities. The Natural Capital Challenge Fund (NCCF) was created to stimulate the county’s post-Covid recovery through investment in the Natural Capital sector. The projects supported will contribute to job...

Devon Work Hubs network expanded

The award-winning Devon Work Hubs network has expanded with the opening of three new hubs across the county and expansion of a fourth.

Devon County Council secured funding from the Heart of the South West LEP Getting Building Fund last year, which has now enabled three new Work Hubs to open in Great Torrington, Newton Abbot and Teignmouth. The extension of the Tavistock Enterprise Hub is also complete.

A further two Work Hubs are due to open in Ilfracombe and High Bickington in the coming months.

There are now 19 unique and flexible coworking spaces in the Devon...

New estate agency bucking trend

It is well documented that getting a new business off the ground is extremely risky. With statistics reporting 20% of businesses failing in their first year and around 60% going bust within the first three years, making sure a start-up survives during the first few years is critical.

Add in the impact of Covid-19 (3.9% of businesses have ‘no confidence’ that they will survive over the next few months), owning a start-up remains a challenge for entrepreneurs.

WIth the statistics seemingly working against most new businesses, launching a brand new company as the world was...

Double award win for Falcon Property

Plymouth’s Falcon Property recently scooped two separate accolades at the Experts in Property Awards 2021.

With the ceremony held via Zoom, the Experts in Property Awards 2021 was well-attended by its member agencies across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol and celebrated what was most important in agency in 2021, majoring on training, online marketing and community involvement.

Falcon won two awards across the seven awards categories.

Best Trained Agency Staff

The first Falcon award was a Silver win in the Training category. the Experts in...

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Exeter site manager recognised as one of the best in the country

Farming recovery programme launched in Devon

Huge drive for green jobs in Devon as council partners with Retrofit Academy to create energy careers

Free support for small businesses and community groups

Michelmores moves to new state-of-the-art office to facilitate agile working model

Tesco becomes first supermarket to join defibrillator network that could save lives

Brewin Dolphin southwest raises over £12,000 for local children’s charity

Funding awarded to natural capital projects

Devon Work Hubs network expanded

New estate agency bucking trend

Double award win for Falcon Property

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