Exeter professionals and residents from Southernhay and Magdalen Road kick-started the weekend in style with an evening of great food, live music and social networking at a special event hosted by Hotel du Vin, to launch its new series of ‘Live music in the Lounge’.

BBX – the bank of spare capacity – can help you build your business whatever it may be and in return you can spend within the community. This is unlike the day to day cash world, out of our earnings we spend on our leisure time, with BBX you can do the same.

A Devon educator has become the first accredited UN climate change teacher in a UK zoo.
Steve Nash, Head of Education for Wild Planet Trust, the charity that runs Paignton Zoo, Living Coasts in Torquay and Newquay Zoo in Cornwall, has become a UN Accredited Climate Change teacher.

Established in Exeter in 1884, local property experts and chartered surveyors, Whitton & Laing celebrated their 135th anniversary with an official event held at The Stand Off, located in Longbrook Street. Partners and staff welcomed over 100 guests, made up of clients, fellow professionals, consultants and friends of the business who enjoyed an evening of networking, drinks and great pub-grub to mark the significant business milestone.

South West Communications Group and Exeter Chiefs are celebrating their silver anniversary with a new sponsorship deal.

Wise Goose School of Coaching based in Chagford announces Sybille Schiffmann as new Chair on their board. Sybille’s role is to act as a sounding board; working with Wise Goose’s founder Helen Sieroda to assess the strategy and goals for growth, including exploring new opportunities.

BBX South West gave a big warm welcome to three new vibrant businesses in June.

“There just aren’t enough hours in the day!”
“Something more important came up”
“I don’t have time right now. I’ll do it later”
Sound familiar? If employees are providing these common excuses when you ask them for an update on a task or project, you may need to address their time management.

We are proud to have worked with Naturalmat for a number of years now, and in May Mike found himself driving to Scotland again to deliver a number of these outstanding products.

We met Babiroo's founder Michelle at a service station when Coraline was a small baby, sat on neighbouring tables in a coffee shop. She told us she was about to launch her business of organic baby clothing and accessories.