Last Friday, I hosted my first breakfast briefing outside of Cornwall. A trip well made as whilst the number of attendees was lower than what we usually have in Truro, the event itself was nonetheless well received by the attendees.…
On a recent visit to the WRAP website, my attention was drawn to the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap. What is the Roadmap? The Roadmap has been developed to tackle food waste in the UK and is centred around a call…
The list of top 150 companies provides a fascinating view of the business landscape in Devon and Cornwall and together in 2019 have generated a collective £14 billion in turnover, a 6% increase on last year. Encouragingly, 47% of the…
Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) were the topic for this month’s breakfast briefing held at our Truro office, attended by 20 business people from across the county. Themes The main presentations were by Christian Wilson of Stephens Sown and our own…
As proud sponsors and compiler of the data for the Western Morning News Annual Business Guide we were interested to notice the small number of hospitality businesses in the top 150, with only one hotel company being featured in the…
Building on the firm’s ranking as the top regional audit firm for charities in the latest Charity Finance Audit Survey, we are now delighted to announce that we act for six of the top ten largest South West charities. For…
The Commission has recently issued guidance for inactive or ineffective charities and it hopes to release a total of £20m into the sector by March 2020. As part of the Government’s Civil Society Strategy this amount was identified as being…
I have received an email from Innovate UK informing me of their competitions currently open for applications. As I know from presentations, the far South West is under represented in term. Open competitions I pick out a few below but…
Email, while being an efficient method of communication, is not inherently secure. It is the simplicity of email that makes it so widely used but this also means that an email is only as secure as the password on your…
Earlier this week Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), HM Treasury and The Rt. Hon Michael Gove MP published an update on various matters being consulted on/considered in the drafting of the hotly anticipated Environment Bill. Aspects covered…
