Innovative local digital startup Krowdthink and the Plymouth and Devon Chamber are partnering to make the networking opportunity at the Plymouth Business Show on Wednesday 17 June at Plymouth Pavilions, a fantastically enhanced digital experience for exhibitors and visitors.
The Krowd app is a new form of social network service for connecting people in places.
It helps users discover more people with shared interests in a crowd and connect with them. In addition it provides a location-based instant-on chat forum, so exhibitors and delegates can engage in a digital...
In celebration of 30 years of providing inspirational, hands-on learning experiences to schools across the region, Buckfast Abbey’s Education Department will play host to a major Christian Storytelling Festival from 2nd to 4th July. Set in idyllic gardens with the magnificent backdrop of Buckfast Abbey, a working Benedictine monastery just off the A38 and within easy reach of Exeter and Plymouth and surrounding areas, the three-day extravaganza of storytelling, theatre and puppetry will include school visits on the first two days and culminate in a fabulous Family Day on Saturday 4th July...
Freehand is a new exhibition of inspirational craftwork made by local young people and adults in workshops run by the Devon Guild, during 2014-15
Exhibition runs until Sunday 5 July.
The gallery will show objects made in a series of community workshops by Guild makers and artists, who worked with children and young people supported by social services and with complex needs, older people living in supported communities, refugees, adults with learning disabilities and prisoners from HMP Dartmoor. Together they have produced truly inspirational work including large paper mache...
Plymouth and Devon Chamber of Commerce has revealed that Thrive Hubs – an innovative network of co-working hubs set to launch at several Plymouth sites – is to be the headline sponsor for the forthcoming Plymouth Business Show.
Held on 17 June at the Plymouth Pavillions from 9.30am to 4pm, the show is in its third year and has grown to be the largest business show in the region.
With the shared goal of providing inspiring business environments in which companies and entrepreneurs can ‘thrive’, the collaboration between these two organisations will no doubt make this year’s...
The iconic Ship building in Derriford, once a hive of industry as the bustling headquarters of the Plymouth Herald and Western Morning News, has been given a last-minute reprieve from the threat of demolition with the announcement that it has been acquired by a South West property developer.
Burrington Estates, which has made a name for itself preserving historic buildings and returning them to their former glory, has delighted Plymouth City Council and local campaigners by vowing to save this eye-catching glass-and-steel building.
A former Royal Navy Wren has become the latest new recruit to jump on board with the region’s leading house builder.
Charlotte Donaldson, who spent four-and-a-half years in the Navy, has been appointed sales negotiator at Persimmon Homes South West and will be based at the builder’s Palmerston Heights development in Plymouth.
It’s a change of direction for Charlotte from Plymouth, who has spent most of her working life as an Air Survival Technician in the Navy.
Based mostly at the Navy’s Air Station in Yeovil, Charlotte instructed pilots and air crew on survival...
The legacy of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics lives on in Devon with over 2,000 young people competing at this year’s Devon Summer School Games.
The Games are taking place on Wednesday 24th June in Plymouth across the some of its most iconic sporting sites.
These sites include the Plymouth Life Centre, Central Park, Plymouth Albion RFC and The Brickfields Recreational Ground. Plymouth School Sport Partnership are hosting the Games in conjunction with Active Devon, with support from RELAYS.
The Games are part of the national Sainsbury's School Games programme and...
Dartmoor Zoo has been successful in its application for the Santander Foundation Charity Plus Grant.
Director Benjamin Mee visited the Plymouth Branch of Santander to collect a cheque for £4750.
Benjamin, appearing in the photo with Dawn Young, Helen Retallick & Sara Williams said: "This is a very important donation from the Santander Foundation.
"The money will be used to help improve disabled access at the zoo. I have been trying for eight years to get tarmac on the slippery path by the tiger enclosure, this grant will make that possible."
The X Factor auditions are back on the road in search of the best and freshest vocal talent as it looks to uncover the nation’s next big singing star.
The UK’s favourite singing show will be visiting Plymouth on Tuesday 19th May with auditions at Plymouth Pavilions, Millbay Road, Plymouth PL1 3LF. Auditions will be from 11am to 5pm.
This is part of the show's biggest ever audition tour, which will visit an unprecedented 50 towns and cities across the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland, as this year we are bringing the auditions directly to you!
One of the UK’s largest letting agencies has opened up a flagship office in Plymouth.
Located on Mutley Plain, Martin & Co Plymouth specialises in providing a comprehensive range of lettings, sales and property management services.
The owners, Chris and Merolyn Whitaker have been involved in property investment for over 15 years and are now using their experience of being landlords, tenants and investors to run their own successful Martin & Co franchise in Plymouth. They’ve found that the service from estate and lettings agents varies widely and they intend to draw...
