BUSINESS owners based in the Southernhay area of the city will have some new faces at the helm of their popular networking group.
Marketing and communications company McQueenie Mulholland has joined Kirk Hills Chartered Accountants to run the quarterly Southernhay Breakfast Club.
The group was initially set up in 2012 by Beckworth Financial Services and Kirk Hills, to cater for businesses in Southernhay, where both companies are based.
Adrian Hills, partner in Kirk Hills said: ‘We could see that there was so much potential for the businesses in this really rather...
On Friday 22nd September, Southernhay Breakfast Club will welcome Cllr Phil Bialyk from Exeter City Council.
Councillor Bialyk is a Labour member for Exwick on Exeter City Council. He is Portfolio Holder for Health and Wellbeing, Communities and Sport.
He also has Responsibility for Bus Station Redevelopment, and is the councillor currently overseeing the major transformation of this key city centre site.
The city council is funding a state-of-the-art new leisure complex and a brand new Exeter Bus Station, and work is set to get underway shortly.
Friday evening (28th April) saw the 3rd Kirk Hills Omelette Challenge take place at Exeter Castle as part of the Exeter Festival of South West Food and Drink.
12 business people from in and around Exeter were invited to rise to the challenge and endeavour to make the fastest omelette in the South West.
The challenge commenced following a demonstration by Michael Caines MBE in a time of 28 seconds. Compered by Paul Nero from Radio Exe this fiercely contested battle saw sibling rivalry between Kirk Hill’s very own Rachel Churchill and Sarah Chamberlain and the...
One of Exeter’s leading firms of Chartered Accounts, Kirk Hills has recently launched a new brand identity marked by the introduction of a new logo that signifies their growth and development over the company’s 25-year history.
The new logo maintains the company’s dependable colour of blue, but with a deeper tone to signify our growing strength and vigour. We have re-designed our name Kirk Hills into the strong square icon so that the new logo offers a clean, modern and solid identity.
Partner, David Kirk has said about the new brand: "Through the launch of our new logo and...
Mary Quicke’s family has been making cheese for generations. The cows at Quicke’s are grass-fed and she is certain that happy cows make more delicious milk. Mary told an audience of 50 at a recent get together of the Southernhay Breakfast Club, a networking group for local business people, about how Quickes create cheddar that is handmade, cloth-bound and matured with individual customers in mind.
Patting a model truckle of cheese on the table next to her, she described how heritage moulds are used, sourced from a library of...
Laurence Oakes-Ash, business analyst and Director of City Science, gave a very engaging talk to an audience of 50 at the Southernhay Breakfast Club on Friday 2nd December. He described how the Exeter City Futures programme, of which his company is a part, is working towards a Zero Congestion area in Exeter.
They have found that a lot of people arriving at key destinations in the city are coming from a set number of starting points and are investigating the possibility of an low cost, on-demand minibus service to reduce the number of private cars being driven each day. They believe...
"An increasing population and an expanding travel to work region is attracting more commuters from across Devon, and putting a significant strain on Exeter region’s roads, energy resources and the wellbeing of its citizens. Exeter City Futures have set a bold goal to make the region free from congestion and energy independent by 2025".
(From the Exeter City Futures website)
Come along to find out more about the aims of this project on 2nd December, when Laurence Oakes-Ash from Exeter City Futures will be our guest speaker.
"An increasing population and an expanding travel to work region is attracting more commuters from across Devon, and putting a significant strain on Exeter region’s roads, energy resources and the wellbeing of its citizens. Exeter City Futures have set a bold goal to make the region free from congestion and energy independent by 2025". (From the Exeter City Futures website)
Laurence Oakes-Ash will be presenting the project's plan at the next Southernhay Breakfast Club on 2nd December.
The Southernhay Breakfast Club is run by Beckworth Financial Services and Kirk Hills. For...
The Southernhay Breakfast Club , a local networking group for professionals, welcomed Julian Tagg, Chairman of Exeter City Football Club, to their last get-together, 16th September, where he explained why for him, Exeter City's not just about football.
Julian grew up in Exeter and says he's "Exeter through and through". On becoming Chairman, he wanted to do something to help improve the health and well being of its citizens and, in particular, young people and so was motivated to develop and promote the Football in the Community (FITC) project. He emphasises that the Saturday...
David Kirk of Kirks Insolvency announced today that he is pleased to be able to report the sale of Plymouth Albion Rugby Club.
Following the notice of intention to appoint an Administrator filed in Court on the 24th March and a brief period of marketing a deal was agreed with a consortium of local businessmen.
The new owners, David Venables and Bruce Priday, who are both former players, have set up a new company called Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club (2016) Ltd.
This includes the events business and secures the transfer of all of the employees including the...
