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How Team Building Events Improve Workplace Collaboration

In today’s fast-paced work environment, effective collaboration and communication are vital for the success of any organisation. Many companies are turning to corporate team building events as a strategy to enhance team dynamics and foster better workplace collaboration. These events are not...

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Government announces £69 million more for Start-Up Loans and New Enterprise Allowance

Aspiring entrepreneurs from across Britain will get financial backing from the government under a £69 million package of support that will help create tens of thousands of new businesses, according to the government.

David Cameron has announced the new funding which will include:

Business mentoring and funding for people who are unemployed but want to start up a company

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Graduate company wins funding thanks to Plymouth University students' expertise

A graduate entrepreneur is planning to expand his company after successfully working with a team of business students from Plymouth University.

Andrew Prosser, director of Series 41, enlisted the help of 55 first year Business Management students to focus on market research as part of the Inspiring Futures project, run by Plymouth Business School’s Talent Hub.

Andrew, himself a...

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Kitsons scale new heights - Three Peaks Charity Challenge

16 members of staff from leading Devon law firm Kitsons faced the challenge of a lifetime this weekend when they tackled the three highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales to raise money for Children’s Hospice South West.

Three teams of walkers left the comfort of their desks to don walking boots and waterproofs and undertake the gruelling 10,000 feet ascent across uneven terrain...

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Sellers return to the South West housing market in record levels

Rising prices and burgeoning buyer demand have led to significant increases in homes coming onto the South West property market, says the August RICS Residential Market Survey.

During August, 68 percent more chartered surveyors reported increases not decreases in new instructions in the region (from +42 percent in July). This is the highest number since RICS started to record these...

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Accounting red tape cut for smallest UK companies

Measures to reduce "burdensome" accounting red tape for micro-businesses have been confirmed today by Business Minister Jo Swinson. In the government response to the consultation on how best to implement the EU’s Micros Directive, published today, the UK’s 1.5 million micro-entities will now become exempt from certain financial reporting requirements.

They are currently subject to the...

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'Local banking' brought back to Devon as TSB returns to the high street

Welcome Back to Local Banking in Plymouth, Barnstaple, Exeter, Exmouth, Ford, Okehampton, Torquay and Tavistock.

The new TSB Bank which has launched today – with more than 4.6 million customers and over £20 billion of loans and customer deposits – is one of the biggest changes ever seen in UK banking as ‘local banking’ is brought back to Britain. There are ten branches in Devon which...

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Devon Venus Award winners revealed at glamorous gala evening

Following thousands of votes and over 1,432 nominations and applications, the Devon Business Women Awards announced the 2013 winners at the University of Exeter's Great Hall on 5 September 2013, hosted by Celia Delaney and Tara Howard.

Plymouth had its share of finalists, and two - Glynis Lidster of Welcome Hall Ltd and Jacqui Batterbee of Batterbee Thompson & Co Ltd - walked away...

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Bank of England maintains interest rates at 0.5%

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has voted to maintain bank interest rates at 0.5% at its meeting on 4 September.

The decision is in line with the monetary policy forward guidance announced last month by Governor, Mark Carney, alongside the publication of the August 2013 Inflation Report.

It has also agreed to keep the scale of its quantitative easing programme...

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Plymouth council leaders green light landmark city plans

A meeting of Plymouth City Council's cabinet on Tuesday (3 September) has seen the approval of a number of landmark development projects which will bring a high profile transformation of 'Britain's Ocean City' over the next few years.

The cabinet gave the green light for free wi-fi for the city centre and waterfront areas, a critical land deal in the £50m redevelopment of Home Park, a...

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Kitsons warm up for Three Peaks trek with series of charity challenges

Staff at leading Devon law firm Kitsons have taken on a trio of charity challenges in aid of Children’s Hospice South West with an ultra marathon and a firm-wide kilometre challenge covering more than 1,200km in 32 hours ahead of the mighty Three Peaks Challenge next month.

Kitsons’ Partner and Head of Property, Patrick Gaskins and Andrew Morris of Headland Finance kicked off the first...

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