Partnership Aims to Boost Aspirations
City College Plymouth and Millbay Academy have formed a new partnership in the bid to provide pupils with the best possible careers advice in an attempt to further raise aspirations within the Plymouth community. Similar to the successful ongoing partnership announced...
Second UK Political Party Backs Ban On Cheap Polystyrene Bodyboards!
Liberal Democrats pledge support for the Ban Cheap Polystyrene Bodyboard Campaign. Plastic Free Torridge, Plastic Free North Devon and Keep Britain Tidy’s Ocean Recovery Project are today announcing support for a UK-wide ban on selling cheap polystyrene bodyboards...
CBILS Support for Gloucestershire Food Business
A Gloucestershire food business specialising in dietary requirements has benefitted from the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) via accredited delivery partner SWIG Finance. Award-winning Bay’s Kitchen creates sauces, soups, stocks and gravies...
New cyber security technology born at Exeter Science Park launched by Securious
Securious, a cyber security company based at the Exeter Science Park, has launched Monikal, the first SIEM solution designed for mid-level organisations. The world-leading technology helps businesses protect critical information to reduce the financial, reputational...
South Devon College completes over 2000 ‘rapid’ Covid tests in first week back
On 8th March South Devon College welcomed students back to their campus amongst an atmosphere of excitement, as things begin to feel a little more ‘normal’. An important part of the roadmap to normality is the ability to test for the virus frequently. In response to...
Awarding body praises College’s commitment to apprentices
After seeing a 100% pass rate for its recent automotive Apprenticeship end-point assessments (EPA), City College Plymouth has been highly praised by the awarding body, City & Guilds. Shortly before the country entered a second period of lockdown last year, the...
Supporting South West Employers with their work experience offers and finding the right students
HALF-TERM week marked a historic moment for the charity Speakers for Schools which delivered more work experience for young people in just one week, than it did in the whole of the last academic year. Growing at an exponential rate, the charity opened the eyes of some...
CBILS Support for Dorset Nursery School
A family-run nursery in Christchurch is the latest business to benefit from the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans Scheme via delivery partner SWIG Finance. Twynham House Nursery School received the £100k CBILS loan, backed by Triodos Bank, to help ensure they...
A Sustainable Future: Postgraduate study by distance learning at Marjon
With the immediate issues caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, many organisations have been in permanent crisis mode since the early part of 2020, and there seems to be little respite to take a breath and think about strategy, or indeed, anything else. Organisations...
SETsquared Bristol support women-led businesses with free business support programme
To mark International Women's Day, University of Bristol-led tech incubator, SETsquared Bristol, are opening applications for Enterprising Women 2.0, a pre-incubation programme for women-led businesses, in partnership with NatWest. Now in its second year, Enterprising...
Free government-funded training courses available to 250 adults in the South West
An additional 250 learner places have been announced on the #Train4Tomorrow Digital bootcamps which are open to adults in Devon, Plymouth, Somerset, Torbay, Cornwall and Dorset. The #Train4Tomorrow programme is designed to help people enter highly paid growth...
Sonny Side Up for Bristol Entrepreneurs
A South Bristol restaurant and takeaway business has been given a boost with funding from the government- backed Start Up Loans scheme. Owners Pegs Quinn and Mary Glynn have each been awarded a Start Up Loan through delivery partner SWIG Finance as their business...