Gloucestershire Business News

28 April 2015

GFirst LEP offers free customer service courses to Gloucestershire businesses

Gloucestershire’s retail, leisure and hospitality SMEs can benefit from free WorldHost courses throughout May and June, helping to get their staff, and the county, ready for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

28 April 2015

Cotswolds LEADER Local Action Group to Recruit Executive Group Members

The Cotswolds Conservation Board and its partners have been successful in securing £1.998 million from the latest national LEADER programme. The programme will operate over 5 years, from June / July 2015.

26 April 2015

Gloucestershires Young Entrepreneurs bring innovative ideas to GCHQ

GFirst LEP’s Education Business Partnership team has taken over 50 students from Gloucestershire’s secondary schools to GCHQ to pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges, as part of the Young Entrepreneurs Competition. The competition saw teams of Year 9 students come up with an original product or service, which they presented at the final hosted by GCHQ in Cheltenham, competing against the ideas of other local schools.

22 April 2015

Dual CMI qualification for RAU business graduates

Students studying a business degree in the School of Business and Entrepreneurship (SBE) at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) will now receive a dual qualification from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), the only accredited professional body for management and leadership and to award Chartered Manager status.

20 April 2015

Free Training for your staff - and up to 2400 Pounds

Gain free English and/or Maths qualifications for your staff and up to £2400 incentive for your business.

17 April 2015

STEMworks enthuse Gloucestershires future engineers

Gloucestershire based not-for-profit organisation STEMworks have been engaging and inspiring primary school students into a career in the engineering sector; through 40 days of school workshops, delivered in 37 schools across Gloucestershire.

16 April 2015

Experts to offer Gloucestershire businesses an insight into the Chinese and Hong Kong markets

Local businesses looking to penetrate one of the key emerging global markets will be able to gain valuable business insights at a free seminar taking place on 21 May 2015 run by Gloucestershire-based business with expertise in China.

9 April 2015

Dr Diane Savory OBE appointed Deputy Lord-Lieutenant for Gloucestershire

Dame Janet Trotter, Gloucestershire’s Lord-Lieutenant, has announced six new deputies, including the Chair of GFirst LEP, Dr Diane Savory OBE.

7 April 2015

Launch of the 2015 Great British High Street Awards

The Great British High Street Awards are back for 2015, and are inviting local people to help in the search for the countries best high street.

18 March 2015

A stable platform allows LEPs to continue success

Dr Diane Savory OBE DL, Chair of GFirst LEP, and David Owen, Chief Executive, give us their take on the new Government and what this means for Local Enterprise Partnerships.

16 March 2015

Local Action Group secure 1.4million funding

Forest and Tewkesbury Borough Local Action Group (LAG), has secured £1.4 million from the European Rural Development Programme to help support new jobs and economic growth in rural areas.

12 March 2015

New University Technical College for Gloucestershire announced

South Gloucestershire and Stroud College (SGS) and the University of Gloucestershire have received approval from the Department for Education to create a state-of-the-art University Technical College (UTC) specialising in Digital Technologies and Advanced Manufacturing.