Gloucestershire Business News

9 May 2014

A417 Loop Scheme petition handed to Downing Street

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Member of Parliament for The Cotswolds, today led a delegation to hand in Gloucestershire County Council’s petition supporting the A417 Loop Scheme to Number 10 Downing Street.

8 May 2014

What do job seekers think about your organisation - free assessment

We are working with the University of Gloucestershire to offer 30 businesses the opportunity, on a first come, first served basis, to participate in this FREE assessment of their recruitment processes.

8 May 2014

Winner announced at Grand Idea business awards 2014

Last night, the Royal Agricultural University celebrated the culmination of it seventh annual Grand Idea business competition with the presentation of the 2014 awards

7 May 2014

Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner Vacancy

Martin Surl, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Gloucestershire is looking for a new Chief Executive to help take his Police & Crime Plan forward.

7 May 2014

New mayor for Tewkesbury Borough

Tewkesbury Borough Council has welcomed a new mayor for 2014/15

2 May 2014

British ambassador to UAE is new UKTI Chief Executive

Dominic Jermey will be the new Chief Executive of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), it was announced today.

1 May 2014

Manufacturing Excellence Awards open for entries until May 9th

The Manufacturing Excellence (MX) Awards programme is now open for entries until Friday 9 May. It promotes and supports manufacturing organisations across the UK through a free business improvement programme that is designed to help manufacturers improve and succeed.

30 April 2014

Modern day tailor of Gloucester, Emma Willis puts Gloucester on the map

Emma Willis is an extraordinary local business woman with ambition and passion to put Gloucester on the map for employing local skills and talent and regenerating the city. Following her recent move to Bearland House, an impressive 18th century building with an ornamental façade, Emma’s vision is to transform Bearland House into a magnet for the finest tailoring in the area and in doing so, help regenerate the city with attracting new visitors.

30 April 2014

Dragons Den style competition final at GCHQ for Intelligent Innovators

GCHQ, in partnership with GFirst LEP, hosted the final of the Intelligent Innovators on the 30th April – a competition for school pupils to come up with new and imaginative business ideas

29 April 2014

Forest of Dean businesses gain valuable insights from local businesses

Last Friday, more than 60 business leaders from the Forest of Dean attended the bi-monthly Forest Means Business breakfast briefing to understand more about the Government’s recent budget proposals from Millhall consultants and to learn about GFirst LEP’s submission of the Strategic Economic Plan to Government

29 April 2014

Can you help with the new engineering top up degree

Can you help with the new engineering top up degree at the University of Gloucestershire?

28 April 2014

2nd year University students get mean, lean and green with energy efficiency

Keen to support young people acquire real life business skills, GFirst LEP is delighted to announce that the event management of the successful Lean, Mean and Green energy event last week at the Oxstalls campus was organised by a team of second year students from the University of Gloucestershire studying event management