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Hugh
Murrell and Katie Ashworth
have launched Murrell Associates LLP,
Cornwall’s newest law firm, based just
off the A30 at Summercourt near Newquay. Read More.
The new Services for Business
brochure is now available from Truro and Penwith College.
The brochure is specifically designed for employers and offers a range
of flexible, easy to access courses and workshops designed to give your
business the edge. Hundreds of topics, delivered in a format to suit
you by a highly qualified team of tutors and trainers. To order your
copy please contact Sarah at Truro College Business Centre on 01872
242702 or email sarahcarruthers@truropenwith.ac.uk.
Cornwall
Book Now:
Give your business on-line booking and credit card authorisation for as
low as
£49.99 pa. Read More.
Amongst the
projects we've been involved with over the last few
months are a few web sites. Clarihon
provided the design for Andrew Law
Accountancy (www.andrew-law.co.uk) and full web
sites for Heritage Cookers, The Tool Supplier (www.thetoolsupplier.co.uk) and Apogee
Recruitment (www.apogeemsl.com).
In
between we managed to
completely overhaul our own web site. With a new design, new portfolio
pages
and more in-depth details of our services we think it provides a more
helpful
view of how we can help you. We've still got more improvements in mind
with plans
to bring back the Design gallery and more examples of interactive
elements we
can add to client sites. The new site is
here: www.clarihon.co.uk.
Two South West-based businesses are taking advantage of the “first class”
facilities available at an EU-funded business park. Read More.
Kernow
Oils
raises over £300 at the Royal Cornwall Show for The Precious
Lives Appeal. Read
More.
Here
are some networking
tips. Imagine
being
in a conference ballroom filled with people. How do you start a
conversation with a total stranger? Before you even begin, think of
what you can offer. That's what networking
is all about. Give first and
goodness will come back to you.
Read
More.
The Federation
of Small
Businesses
(FSB) has launched a
Small Business Manifesto to engage local
authorities in championing small businesses. The FSB will
focus its local election lobbying on the campaign to Keep Trade Local,
which seeks to protect small businesses from unfair planning laws,
draconian parking restrictions in town centres and the breakdown of
local economies. Read
More.
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Business Broker Advice Service - We
are pleased to announce the launch of a new service available to
network members. You can access FREE business advice to help your
business survive, grow and develop. The Business Broker offers
professional, confidential advice which is specific to the needs of
your business. We will focus our attention on supporting small, rural
businesses in Kerrier & Penwith.
Call 01209
614070 or email Hannah to book a
FREE business advice session
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Are you
interested in joining our Steering Group - please email admin@wcbn.co.uk
for details.
The
steering group is
comprised of private sector business all of whom are network members.
The purpose of the group is to advise and steer the business broker and
subsequently the network. As business men and women we are keen to
ensure that the network brings real economic benefits to members and we
are therefore delighted to announce the launch of our new website. The
network brings fantastic benefits to those who are actively involved
and there will be plenty of opportunities to get involved over the
coming months so watch this space!
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Members
Benefits Package– Contact
the Business
Broker now to receive you personalised ID number and start
accessing discounts and special offers from A1
Health & Safety, AC1
Recruitment, Bennetts
Fuels, Brewers
Business Solutions, Buy Cornwall,
Go
Create Design, Concorde
Copiers, Factory
First, Gibson
Information Systems, Headland Printers,
Latitude
50, Sailflags, Sign
Dynamics , and WSI Better
Websites.
New Benefits Package - I
am pleased to announce the launch of a new benefits package. Sapience
Human Resource Consulting are offering discounts on HR
support services and daily consultancy rates. The professional service
is tailor made to fit your business needs and enables even small
businesses to benefit from an expert HR department at a fraction of the
cost by outsourcing to Sapience.
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Online weather tools available
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The Met Office has launched a range of online gadgets which will prove
a handy reference tool for firms whose businesses depend upon or are
affected by the weather. The mini applications include localised
weather forecasts, severe weather warnings, marine warnings and radar
images. Users must have either the Firefox web browser or the Windows
Vista operating system to access the tools, which are free of charge. For more information, go to:
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=332367&NewsAreaID=2
You can download the tools at: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/gadgets/
Traffic
& Travel Updates - Cornwall
live travel updates.
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Kerrier
Regeneration Page -
Click
Here
The
Heartlands Project - Read More
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There are some newly available units at Carrick
Business Centre ranging from 140 to 400sq.ft from as
little as £200pcm.
This lovely old granite building on Commercial Road, Penryn, which
backs onto the Penryn River, has excellent road links to Truro,
Falmouth and the surrounding areas.
The Business Centre is very good for both growing and established
businesses as it benefits tenants with flexible lease terms, reception
cover, use of all the communal facilities and even access to
secretarial assistance on-site.
Initial costs are one month's deposit plus a month's rent in
advance. Service charges include all utilities, there is no
VAT on rent and there are no business rates to pay.
For a Tenant Pack or more information, please contact us on 0845 644
4384. or e-mail us at delegate@fridaygirl.com.
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For anyone looking for industrial premises, we'd like to let you all
know about two industrial units that are soon to become available at Herniss Business Park.
The property is located approximately
three miles west of Penryn, just south of and 100m from the A394 Penryn
to Helston road, on the outskirts of Longdowns The main site
entrance and main car park area have just had a new Tarmac surface laid
with chipping areas to rear car park and pathways. Each unit has
allocated customer parking.
Unit A:
This recently constructed paint shop is
detached and has been built adjacent to the main buildings.
Unit A has a steel roller shutter door at either end, each 3.65m wide x
4.70m high and has been separated internally by a steel door partition
off the main paint spray area. The internal eaves height is 4.70m. The
unit has mechanical ventilation via two water filter towers.
1,810 sq.ft.
Annual rent £9,995.+ VAT
Tenant will be responsible for Business
Rates.
Three months' deposit required in
advance of moving in.
Rent payments to be received monthly, in
advance, at £978.68 + VAT
Unit C:
A cutting shop lies immediately to the
north of the main workshop on the main built up ground floor level.
Access is via a hinged loading door in northern elevation 4.15m wide x
3.85m high. Internal eaves height is 4.50m.
1,936 sq.ft.
Annual rent £10,648.+ VAT
Tenant responsible for Business Rates.
3 Months' deposit required in advance of
moving in.
Rent payments to be received monthly, in
advance, at £1,042.62 + VAT
For further information please contact Paul Rutter at L&R Unique
Furniture & Joinery on 01209 861621 or email
paul.rutter@uniquejoinery.co.uk.
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REDRUTH MARKET
Redruth is
launching a fantastic, high-quality market on Friday 20th
June and would very much like you to be involved!
This is a new
venture, to run weekly, and we appreciate that, as with anything new,
it’s a bit of a risk, so we are going to give you, as
traders, every opportunity to help make a success of it. We
are offering:
·
Heavily subsidized pitches
·
A dedicated market manager
·
A variety of good quality,
complimentary stalls with the emphasis being on locally sourced,
produced, grown, manufactured or built products
·
Widespread coverage in the
local media, before during and after the launch (the West Briton and
Atlantic FM are both helping us promote the market)
·
The opportunity to help shape
the direction that the market goes in and to be involved from the start
in its success and growth
·
On-going support from myself,
the local chamber of commerce, businesses and others in order to make
Redruth Market a real success
If you are keen
on finding out more information or would like to reserve your pitch at
the market from 20th June, please contact Matt
Powell on: 01209 722099 or mp@cprregeneration.co.uk
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Farmers, foresters and biomass producers across England can apply for grants
of up to £200,000 under the latest round of a DEFRA-funded scheme. Read More.
The
Development Awareness Fund (DAF) Mini Grants Scheme is aimed at
organisations or networks with an interest in development education
work in the UK. Read More.
Launched in the spring of 2005, Grants4
is a new and innovative service that enables local organisations such
as community and voluntary groups, social enterprises, local
partnerships and local businesses to search for and identify relevant
grant funding sources.
South
West Regional Funding Bulletin - Read
It.
Grants
for the arts
- individuals and organisations (if you are applying before 1
November). Read
More.
The
South West Regional Development
Agency's (SW RDA) Selective Finance for Investment in England
(SFI) is aimed at businesses of all sizes looking to invest in assisted
areas, of which Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are included, that
need a grant or a loan to take their vision forward. Depending on the
size of the business, the maximum that can be applied for is 50 per
cent of capital expenditure of a project, depending on a company's
specific needs. Read
More.
Grants
Online – One Stop Funding Information Portal. Featuring
the latest information on grants from the European Union; the
UK Government, Lottery and Grant Making Trusts, Grants Online is
designed to ensure that you never miss another funding opportunity
again. Currently
being used by over 200 Local
Authorities in the UK, Grants Online is a one stop funding
information service that not only alerts users to new funding
opportunities and calls for proposals but also enables them to search
for funding sources using our intuitive grants database, directories
and mind maps.
Cornwall
Enterprise is the lead agency for a number of
projects including
actnow, which has brought broadband to the county,
and the inward
investment campaign, Cornwall Pure Business. Cornwall Enterprise has
also
worked in partnership for projects such as the Devon &
Cornwall
Overseas Marketing Initiative (DACOM), Destination
Marketing
and Destination
South West. For
more information, go to http://www.cornwallenterprise.co.uk/funding/
Bishop
Fleming
have released the latest edition of their Grant Update
newsletter. To
access the newsletter, click
here. Also, to
have the newsletter directly delivered to your
inbox every 2 months, send an e-mail to grantupdate@bishopfleming.co.uk
, and you will be included in the next mailing.
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Smallbiz - the first
podcast for start ups and entrepreneurs. Click here
Start-ups Forum - all
your business start up questions answered by one of the 3000 forum
members - click
here
London 2012
– Register here
to receive regular e alerts with up to date advice about business
opportunities. Click here
for regional update.
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Future World
@ Goonhilly are offering local charities, clubs, groups and not for profit
organisations a unique opportunity to use their state of the art facilities for
one off or regular events for FREE!
As part of
British Telecoms on-going commitment to giving back to the local communities
that they work amongst, they have pledged free use of the inspiring Future World
facilities which includes: a lecture theatre with use of the projector if
required, The Big Dish café that can hold up to 180 people and a cyber café with
the fastest free internet connection in world.
What better
way to make your event unique than in the inspirational setting, housed among
the satellite dishes, resident interactive life-sized robot and many other wacky
space age technologies.
Mark Hayes a
representative of Fusion a charity that currently use the facilities said: “Our
monthly events seem to be proving most popular now that we are able to use the
Future World space and parking facilities. The staff
are so welcoming and I can’t think of a more original venue for our
guests!”
If you are
interested in using the facilities or would like more information contact Jon
Henney at Future World on 0800 679 593 or e-mail:
jonathan.henney@bt.com
To find out
more about Future World @ Goonhilly visit: www.goonhilly.bt.com
Are you interested in:
Developing
your business? And
accessing the
‘right’ finance to do so? If so, you are invited to
attend the following seminar: Accessing Finance for Growing
Businesses. Read More.
Cornwall
Neighbourhoods 4 Change
present Cooking for the Community.
Read More.
Business Link - Free
Business Advice
Clinics - T: 0845 600 9966
E: enquiries@blpeninsula.co.uk
W: www.businesslinksw.co.uk
The 2008
Glendorgal
Sessions –
presented by Step Into
Management. Offering a wide range of
high quality, value for money, half day local open training workshops
to help
your business achieve better results. Read More.
Rural
Business School Current
Events & Courses Programme
Please
access list of courses.
Read
More.
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