After a successful first year helping South West social ventures to grow and flourish, applications have now opened for an exciting new programme of Seedbed investment and support for 2016.
Now in its second year, the £1.2 million Seedbed accelerator programme is looking to recruit 25 ambitious social ventures from across the region by the end of January.
GAIN, the South West Growth, Acceleration and Investment Network is looking for all start-ups, innovators, disruptors to invest £30,000 as matchfunding to help business growth.
GAIN has partnered with the UK's #1 rewards crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunder, to find brilliant businesses based in Devon, Cornwall, Isles of Scilly or Somerset who have a product, service or approach that is...
The Business in Britain report, now in its 24th year, gathers the views of 1,500 UK companies, predominantly small to medium sized businesses, and tracks the overall “balance” of opinion on a range of important performance and confidence measures, weighing up the percentage of firms that are positive in outlook against those that are negative.
Devon-based PR consultancy Glen King PR established in 2005, celebrated its tenth anniversary with expansion of the team and a move to a larger city-centre office in the summer of this year. London-born David Greensmith, with over 40 years’ experience in engineering and construction has now joined the company as Business Development Director.
The award-winning, Plymouth based animations studio Pushed, responsible for creating TV programme titles, adverts, corporate films and motion graphics, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Formed by Dave Meadows in 2005, after a round of redundancies at ITV's regional graphics department, Pushed has been pulling in high calibre clients from television, business and charity....
Leading Plymouth commercial property specialists Bruton Knowles have completed on their quickest ever deal – signing off an emergency office move in just two hours!
Mark Slade from Bruton Knowles’ Lockyer Street office said the drama began at noon on November 4 when he took a call from Mark Harrod of Synergy Chartered Accountants who needed to find new accommodation “at a moment’s...
Psychologists from the University of Plymouth will be giving businesses a chance to get a different perspective on their world of work at an event at the Plymouth Science Park on Monday.
The specialists will be answering a range of questions at an event designed to help businesses grow and change.
Subjects include: How do you motivate people to do the things that they say they...
PLYMOUTH Science Park’s groundbreaking mentoring scheme for businesses has been recognised by industry leaders as a UK first. The Park provides all tenants with free access to an advisory board made up of a panel of experts in a variety of specialisms in order to help them transform and grow their businesses.
The Plymouth Science Park Advisory Board was formed in 2013 to provide expert...
The South West private sector recovered some growth momentum at the start of the final quarter of 2015, according to the latest PMI® survey data. The rate of expansion in output strengthened to a three-month high, having slowed throughout the third quarter. Growth of new business resumed and firms increased workforces at a stronger pace, although the volume of outstanding business continued to...
The 2016 Devon Farm Business Awards were launched on Monday 2 November, on the farm of Devon’s 2015 “Farmer of the Year”, John and Clare Clapp, at Hartnoll, near Tiverton.
The awards are organised by a partnership of the Addington Fund, the Devon County Agricultural Association (DCAA), and Stephens Scown Solicitors.
Speaking at the launch, DCAA Chairman, Mary Quicke MBE, said...
