Business

Plymouth to host Regional Growth Fund roadshow for South West businesses

Plymouth is set to host a roadshow event as part of the Government's Regional Growth Fund, which re-opens to bidders today (Friday 11 October).

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced a new round of bidding, calling on businesses across the country to bid for a share of the £300 million cash pot.

To help south west bidders on their applications, a road show and...

Council team offers the nuts and bolts for businesses

A series of workshops designed to give new and existing businesses the low-down on everything they need to know is being run by Plymouth City Council.

The events are being organised by the Council’s public protection team and the first one of the series will be held on Thursday 31 October at the Lower Hall of the Guildhall.

They are being put together to help companies tap into...

£3.9m worth of contracts up for grabs in children's centres reorganisation

Six new contracts worth just under £3.9 million will be up for grabs as part of a major overhaul of the management and governance for Plymouth’s children centres.

A plan being put before Cabinet next week (Tuesday 15 October) will redesign the back-office functions of the city’s 16 children’s centres to help protect these front-line services from funding cuts, whilst balancing the need...

Businesses urged to provide opportunity for all

A new report by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission argues that internships should be fairly paid and openly recruited. The report urges businesses to help create an opportunity for all society.

It provides evidence that, despite good intentions, firms are too often inadvertently excluding some of the best and the brightest. The report states:

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Marketing - The Facts!

In a recent survey of Devon and Cornwall Small Businesses only 13% of the businesses surveyed conduct Marketing Planning and yet 90% said that they see Marketing as important to the success of their business with 56% seeing it as critical to success*.

So what’s the problem? Why is there such a huge gap between those that do and those that don’t?

We believe it’s to do with three...

Local business gets stronger with bootcamp

Jump-squats, abdominal crunches and shoulder presses may sound like hard work but it’s a daily occurrence for Plymouth’s FIT Bootcampers. Not only are the members getting stronger, the business is too.

Local business woman, Kate Leadbeater, and former Naval Physical Training Instructor, Mark Nesbitt, started FIT Bootcamp in Plymouth in 2009 and it’s been going from strength to strength...

New jobs as Council attracts national care provider to city

160 new jobs could be created as a new care company moves into Plymouth.

The Council has awarded the Human Support Group a contract for reablement services in the city, bringing the company into the region. The Human Support Group intends to open a flagship operation for the south west in Plymouth. It will take on the reablement team currently employed by the Council and plans to...

Plymouth set for new TV channel

Plymouth may soon get a local television channel according to regulator Ofcom.

Locations across the UK including Plymouth and Barnstaple, are slated to gain independent channels making original programming.

Ofcom is inviting applications from independent studios to get a licence to found a new channel for a local audience.

11 more licences were announced today as...

Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise makes its mark

Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise, established by Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry to bring its successful Dental Education Facilities and community activity under one umbrella, is now up and running and already making its mark.

When it was announced earlier this year it was already a world first, because it was the first clinical entity to be...

Former Land Registry building to be revamped

Residents will soon see a transformation of Plumer House, the former Land Registry office in Crownhill, according to Plymouth Community Homes .

The organisation says it will dramatically improve the building’s appearance with new cladding and open a customer services centre for tenants and leaseholders.

The construction is underway following planning consent in July, and is set...

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