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Teachers given the gift of Exeter’s independents

Exeter Supply Partnership switched from Amazon vouchers to the Exeter Independent Gift Card for its supply team reward and referral programs, funnelling support to the city’s independent sector.

An Exeter based not for profit organisation providing supply staff to over 180 schools in Devon is using a popular city gift card to reward its team, and has praised the initiative for its ability to support independent businesses.

Exeter Supply Partnership rewards its supply teachers who have gone above and beyond in their role each half term. After initially using Amazon...

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5 Business Communication Problems to Avoid

Communication is key in modern business. Regardless of your industry or business size, you must attempt to improve communications to your customers and between your company’s departments, which will help to generate a more productive and profitable business. Read the five potential business communication problems to avoid.

1. A Communication Overload

As there are now multiple ways for people to communicate with one another, it is easy for people to utilise too many of these ways, overwhelming people with messages, be it via email or text, which could lead to people missing...

Microsoft MTA 98-364 Certification Exam: Key Points

The Microsoft Technology Associate is a new type of certification exams offered by Microsoft that helps IT professionals to start building a career based on technologies by Microsoft. The 98-364 test deals with database administration fundamentals. This certification exam helps validate a developer’s expertise in the insight of the major concepts of data administration and management. Most IT professionals who wish to build a career in IT management and administration widely choose to train for this certification exam.

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Talented trio promoted to Partnership at leading adviser

A trio of Directors have been promoted to Partner at Top 30 advisory firm, Bishop Fleming, as the firm continues to keep pace with the growing demand for its award-winning services.

The firm, which delivers accounting, tax, corporate restructuring and advisory services to businesses and not-for-profit organisations, and private wealth advice to individuals, has appointed Isobel Savage, Nathan Coughlin and John Talbot to the partnership in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the firm, together with their strong focus on delivering client service. As a former Tax...

Station Road in Exeter to reopen as planned

The Environment Agency’s work to protect 3,200 homes and businesses in Exeter reaches an important milestone this week. Work on Station road is due to complete on time and the road will re-open on 8th June as planned. On both sides of the river large, steel gates have been installed and will sit behind the footpaths housed in brick clad walls with the exposed gate face clad in timber. When a flood is expected the gates will be closed completing the flood defences and protecting the properties behind them. The new flood gates on Station Road and the adjacent flood defence walls are integral...

Lottery boost for adventure centre plans

Ambitious plans to build a state-of-the-art scout hut and adventure centre in Topsham have received a boost this week.

The group behind the project to create the half a million pound Topsham Adventure Centre has been awarded a grant of £10,000 from the Big Lottery Fund, bringing their fundraising total to date to more than £100,000.

The project is a joint venture between the 1st Topsham Sea Scouts and Community, Equality, Disability and Action (CEDA) and is supported by The Mede who are a day centre for people living with Dementia and their carers. The groups will share the...

£25m South West Institute of Technology plan reaches funding bid final

A multimillion pound bid to revolutionise digital technology education across the South West has reached the final phase of competition.

The Department for Education (DfE) is awarding £170 million to establish a network of Institutes of Technology across the country. They will offer top-quality training and apprenticeships in higher-level technical skills.

They will aim to bridge skills gaps in the economy by providing the knowledge and training that employers need. It would deliver a range of higher level courses across the digital, engineering and manufacturing sectors...

RD&E gives green light for new patient-centred comprehensive health record system

RD&E has received NHS Improvement approval to proceed with a new clinical transformation programme. As well as fundamentally improving the way services and care are delivered to patients, the programme will see paper-based patient records at the RD&E becoming a thing of the past.

The MY CARE Programme is the cornerstone of a broader programme of change that will engage those people who need our services together with those people entrusted to deliver them, to transform the way that care is delivered and make services at the RD&E more clinically and financially...

Rescue team carries off builder's grant aid

Members of a volunteer search and rescue team have been handed £1,000 to help fund vital kit for their state of the art stretcher.

The Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team Plymouth has been handed the cash through Persimmon Homes Cornwall’s Community Champions scheme.

Volunteer Simon Applebee explained: “We seek to provide the best service and are continually training with the latest lifesaving equipment.

“We have recently invested £2,000 in a specialist stretcher, but we need to invest more in providing key accessories, including wheels and carry handles, that will aid...

Exmouth watersports centre given green light

Queen’s Drive in Exmouth including associated facilities for water sports users such as a café, restaurant and retail spaces as well as associated car parking.

Members of East Devon District Council’s Development Management Committee have voted in favour of granting planning permission for the construction of a new water sports centre and facilities for water sports users such as a café, restaurant, retail spaces and car parking at Queen’s Drive in Exmouth.

The development also includes new stepped and ramped accesses to the beach.

The application that was approved...

County Council unwraps new strategy to reduce plastic waste

Devon County Council has pledged to phase out its use of the most polluting single-use plastic products within two years.

The move is part of a new action plan the Council has developed to help cut the amount of single-use plastic waste in Devon.

The ‘Plastics Strategy’ outlines how various single-use plastic food and beverage packaging and tableware (such as cutlery and cups) will be removed from Council work locations by 2020.

It also summarises how the Council will use its position and responsibility to raise awareness of the issues surrounding single-use...

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Teachers given the gift of Exeter’s independents

5 Business Communication Problems to Avoid

Microsoft MTA 98-364 Certification Exam: Key Points

Talented trio promoted to Partnership at leading adviser

Station Road in Exeter to reopen as planned

Lottery boost for adventure centre plans

£25m South West Institute of Technology plan reaches funding bid final

RD&E gives green light for new patient-centred comprehensive health record system

Rescue team carries off builder's grant aid

Exmouth watersports centre given green light

County Council unwraps new strategy to reduce plastic waste

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