Gloucestershire Business News

3 July 2013

Tewkesbury primary children race ahead with Moog

To encourage children to become the engineers of tomorrow, GFirst LEP has been working with Moog, a world-wide designer, manufacturer and integrator of precision motion control products and systems based in Tewkesbury, and STEMworks, to work with local primary schools to build and program robots as part of a county wide challenge to raise enthusiasm in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).

1 July 2013

GFirst LEP appoints Neill Ricketts to Board of Directors

GFirst LEP today announced the appointment of Neill Ricketts to the GFirst LEP Board of Directors. The appointment is effective from the beginning of July 2013.

27 June 2013

GFirst LEP to bid for cash to boost the Gloucestershire economy from new Government funding pot

GFirst Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Gloucestershire businesses are today a major step closer to increasing economic growth in the county.

6 June 2013

New video case studies of Ambassadors in action

If you're not already actively involved as an Ambassador and would like to consider becoming one to help drive growth in Gloucestershire, you may wish to be inspired by some of the work undertaken by our forward thinking Ambassadors from the business, public sector and voluntary sector community.

4 June 2013

GFirst LEP calls on businesses to shape growth plans for Gloucestershire

On our second anniversary today, we marked the occasion at the Parabola Arts Centre in Cheltenham to show the business community and public sector how we will help shape plans to make Gloucestershire a world class place to live, work and invest.

14 May 2013

Challenge 2013 smashes its targets

A campaign to get 2,013 primary school children working with Gloucestershire engineering and manufacturing businesses in 2013 has smashed its targets in just two months.

10 May 2013

GFirst LEP chair to play a pivotal role in boosting the high street

Diane Savory, the chair of GFirst Local Enterprise Partnership, has been asked to play a pivotal role in the Government’s drive to boost the high street.

3 May 2013

Business confidence is up in Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire LEP’s Quarterly Business Survey, which was sent to 6,000 county firms, asked them about the outlook of their business, current issues and how the LEP can help them.

16 April 2013

GFirst LEP publishes Growth Statement

GFirst Local Enterprise Partnership has today published its Growth Statement, which describes a forecast for the future and the challenges that have to be faced to boost the county’s economy and employment by 2025.