A new finance and support package will be made available to the South West’s social ventures in April 2015.
The Seedbed incubator will offer 50 social entrepreneurs cutting-edge support with the aim to make them stronger and more sustainable and will provide access to social finance.
The Seedbed Accelerator will help social entrepreneurs create sustainable jobs, contribute to...
A crowdfunding appeal has been launched to raise money to find and save a spider from global extinction.
A Buglife petition urging a Government planning inspector to reject plans for a housing development in Radford Quarry, Plymouth on the basis it would wipe out the Horrid ground-weaver spider has attracted more than 9,500 signatures.
With Valentine’s Day approaching fast, men all around the country are starting to rummage around the back of the sofa or dust off their credit cards, and preparing to purchase a beautiful bouquet of flowers for the woman (or man!) of their dreams.
But where you live in the country can really make a difference, in terms of what size of bouquet you get, and how much your loved one...
Alison Seabeck, Labour MP for Plymouth Moor View, wrote to the Transport Minister, Robert Goodwill MP, last week to express her ongoing concerns about the safety and regulation of mobility scooters. This came after picking up on a number of concerns raised locally and around the country following a series of interviews she gave to the national media.
A group of second year dental students from Plymouth University, supported by the Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise, are working with residents from the Salvation Army’s Devonport Lifehouse homeless centre in Plymouth, to help them become more aware of how to maintain good oral health and access dental treatment.
The students have had several sessions with the residents and those in...
Work to refurbish Plymouth’s disused Laira Rail Bridge has now reached the halfway point.
The £3.5 million scheme, funded through the Department for Transport’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund, will see the former rail bridge restored and converted into a new walking and cycling route over the River Plym.
Built in 1887, Laira Rail Bridge stopped carrying passenger trains in...
Fifteen ancient skeletons have been discovered on an archaeological dig in Ipplepen, a major Romano-British settlement in Devon and now the best preserved Roman cemetery in the county.
University of Exeter archaeologists and a team of students and volunteers uncovered the human remains during an excavation of a Roman Road and found a roadside cemetery, the like of which has never been...
At least 550 new foster families are needed across the South West region during 2015 to provide stable, secure and loving homes for record numbers of fostered children, according to figures released today from The Fostering Network.
Each day sees over 63,000 children living with over 52,500 foster families in homes across the UK. With a rising number of children coming into care, and...
The Procurement Team at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust have been shortlisted as finalists in the Government Opportunities (GO) Excellence in Public Procurement, for the Initiative of the Year Award for 2015/16.
The team have been shortlisted for developing a Trust-wide programme, known as the ‘Non Pay Programme’. Starting in 2013, the programme has helped to manage with inflation and has...
‘Red Tuesday’ is the top dumping day of the year, just four days before Valentine’s Day, according to new research released by IllicitEncounters.com, the UK’s top dating website.
3,000 people were surveyed on Illicit Encounters and one in five - 22% - had broken up with someone the week before Valentine’s Day.
Dumping someone electronically is also rising in popularity with 7.5...
