A new business support programme has been launched offering a range of business training and support services for the self-employed and small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay.
Up to 600 businesses will be supported through the Heart of the South West Growth Hub’s new programme – Thrive.
The programme is part funded by the ERDF and the...
Local housing association Aster Group is set to build 290 new affordable homes in Devon after securing nine new development deals, representing one of its biggest ever single investments in the county.
The new affordable homes for local people will be built in locations including:
A total of six million recycling and waste collections – weighing more than 48,000 tonnes - were made in East Devon last year.
Crews collected the equivalent weight of 4,000 London double decker buses, through a whopping 4.5million recycling collections and 1.5 million waste collections.
As well as this a further 300,000 green waste collections were made.
Devon-based EMotive, creator of the world’s first zero-emission all-terrain six-wheel commercial electric vehicle, has surpassed its £180,000 Crowdcube campaign funding target in just four days.
Ranging from fire rescue all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) to farm, forestry and adventure tourism trucks, EMotive’s disruptive E-ATV platform addresses a huge gap that currently exists for 6-12...
Tesco is bringing a positive start to Plymouth communities’ year by launching a campaign to give good causes part of a £300,000 boost.
From 17 January to 6 February, Plymouth listeners to Heart and Smooth radio stations who work with charities or not-for-profit organisations will be encouraged to apply for a £5,000 cash grant.
Priority will be given to projects that provide...
Local Teignmouth choir South Devon Singers will be joining the number one selling classical vocal trio Tenors Unlimited, the ‘Rat Pack of Opera’ in their show “That’s Amore” at Teignmouth Pavilions, The Den Crescent, TQ14 8BG, on Saturday 5th February 7.30pm.
Tenors Unlimited has performed alongside such notables as Sting, Lionel Richie, Beyoncé, Hayley Westenra, Simply Red and the...
A Dartmoor woodland has been given a tidy-up thanks to a team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers. Working with Dartmoor National Park’s Rangers Ella Briens and Ethan Parsons and Dartmoor Headwaters Project Officer Kerry Smith, the group spent a Sunday morning removing tree guards from a native woodland in the Dean Burn valley near Buckfastleigh. Seventeen volunteers joined Ella, Ethan...
South West-based marketing and PR agency Astley Media has welcomed four new clients to its portfolio of regional and national brands.
South West Business Council , Somerset West and Taunton Council , the Heart of the South West LEP and software development company CoreBlue , have joined the award-winning agency in 2022 to develop their marketing, brand, and communications.
A group of cat volunteers are celebrating the successful homing of the final group of kittens from a farm near Honiton.
Cats Protection’s Honiton Branch had a busy year, rehoming more than 40 cats during 2021 and neutering 163 cats by October. However, it has been the most recent humane trapping of a pregnant female cat at a farm outside Monkton that has been cause for most...
