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Property Lending specialists, Exeter Finance, reaches significant milestone, with ten year funding partnership with Shawbrook

Hot on the heels of celebrating a decade in the property lending sector in 2023, Exeter Finance have now reached a further milestone with a ten year collaboration with Shawbrook.

Exeter Finance is a specialist provider of loan facilities in the South West and was established by Peter Keech in 2013 to serve the local property market with a personal and efficient approach. The business has arranged over 700 loans to date, 130 of these current, and delivered over £250million to fund bridging loans, auction purchases and development projects.

The team at Exeter Finance...

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Children's hospice to benefit from car prize raffle

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 10/05/2017 - 8:46am

A children’s hospice in the South West is to be given a charity Christmas boost after an automotive retailer and a shopping centre joined forces. Snows Toyota Exeter is raffling a new Toyota C-HR, worth nearly £24,000, with £5,000 already raised in ticket sales before the Christmas prize draw on December 23. The dealership, part of Snows Motor Group in the South, teamed up with Princesshay Shopping Centre in Exeter. Money raised by the raffle will be donated to Children’s Hospice South West, which provides palliative care and respite for youngsters with life-limiting conditions and their...

Don't miss your chance to vote!

People living in Exeter are being urged to complete their electoral registration forms so that they can vote in next year’s City Council elections.

Over 52,000 household enquiry forms went out to all homes in the city at the start of August, followed by reminders in early September. However, there are still 12,000 households which have not completed a return.

This is the final step in compiling and preparing the 2018 Register of Electors for Exeter. People who fail to complete and return the form may not be included on the Register and will lose their right to vote....

Charity calls for volunteers to help with Santa Run

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 10/04/2017 - 12:34pm

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) is delighted to be one of the chosen charities for the Exeter City Community Trust Santa Run in Exeter on Sunday 3rd December, and is looking for volunteers to help marshal the event.

Volunteers would be needed from 8.00am – 10.30am on the day of the run which starts and finishes in Princesshay, so you can then continue the festive spirit with a bit of Christmas shopping at the Christmas market afterwards!

In addition, the charity also has ten free charity places for the run available. Sponsorship raised from CHSW runners could help to...

YMCA Exeter team up with local businesses to help job seekers get work in the city

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 10/04/2017 - 10:23am

YMCA Exeter Job Club staff and their trained volunteers are teaming together with professionals from agencies and employers, on Wednesday 11th October at Belmont Chapel, for their Big Job Club – a day which helps to connect job seekers with employers and help with everything from CV writing to job applications.

YMCA Exeter has been offering job clubs in the community for the last eight years, but with their Big Lottery Funding coming to a close at the end of the year, the charity wants to encourage more people to make use of their all-age service while it is still available....

Design’s a Walk in the Park for The Gro Company

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 10/04/2017 - 10:02am

It comes with great excitement that The Gro Company, the UK’s leading baby sleep brand, announces the arrival of Amy Walker as Design Manager.

Amy’s appointment will see her create fluid collections with a unique and recognisable handwriting for the Gro brand that families have become to know and love over the past 17 years.

Amy brings with her over 10 years’ experience and joins the team from Lazy Jacks, a successful lifestyle brand in Devon, where she was the Senior Designer. Before that Amy worked for hugely influential brands including Reebok and Weird Fish. Amy’s...

Exeter entrepreneurs and innovators attend Start-up Day workshops at Exeter Library

Almost 100 Exeter-based entrepreneurs and innovators attended Exeter Library’s Start-up Day on 21st September.

The exceptional line-up of speakers and creative workshops were full of information and advice to help people kick-start their business ideas, and attracted crowds from across the city to hear more about the secrets to start-up success.

Sponsored by Exeter City Council and run by Libraries Unlimited, Start-up Day was designed to motivate budding business minds, and help them turn their ideas into a reality, whilst providing the opportunity for like-minded people to...

Digital marketing firm raises money for Macmillan with coffee morning

A local digital marketing agency has hosted a Macmillan Coffee Morning, raising £200.95 for the cancer charity.

On Friday 29th September, MiHi Digital opened their doors at their HQ on the Devon / Cornwall border to welcome everyone for tea, coffee and a slice of cake.

The event was held as a part of The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, Macmillan’s largest annual fundraising event for those facing and fighting cancer. Each year they ask people from all over the UK to host their own Coffee Mornings, with donations on the day being made to Macmillan. Since its inception in...

Quartet of new clients for Exeter communications agency

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 10/04/2017 - 12:13am

Exeter communications agency, Absolute PR & Marketing, has expanded its client portfolio with a quartet of exciting new clients from the property, engineering and education sectors. Established in 1999, Absolute welcomes Blue Cedar Homes, Palstone Lodges, GRE, and South Devon University Technical College to its growing roster of clients. Blue Cedar Homes, a leading developer exclusive, high quality homes for the over 55s, has appointed Absolute to deliver PR and marketing communications across the business. Blue Cedar Homes’ unique schemes create retirement communities that cater for...

Exam success for Brewin Dolphin

Five members of Brewin Dolphin’s South West team are celebrating after achieving significant exam success.

All Assistant Portfolio Managers, Chris Farmer and Joseph Noble both passed the second stage of their Chartered Wealth Management qualification and Alice Proctor and Joe Robson both passed the first module. Neil Johnson also achieved a pass in the Private Client Advice exam.

Chris Farmer’s success was particularly noteworthy as he was one of only five people in the country to achieve a merit and he was awarded the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI...

PSP's first class driving academy for haulage and coach drivers

Keeping the skills of haulage and coach drivers in tip top order is the number one aim for a new Plymouth Science Park based company, Fleet Solutions.

Founder Stephen Browne’s background is in haulage and he has spent most of his working life in the transport industry (including time spent driving on the continent).

His passion for driving led him to complete his degree in teaching two years ago. Since then, he has been involved in delivering training to a number of colleges in London and he has also worked with TfL (Transport for London).

His accredited courses...

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