The Culver Square shopping centre in Colchester is to become part of a national “business incubator” project offering £300,000-worth of support of start-up ventures.
Month: November 2017
Essex Part of Exciting New £42m Flagship Nuclear Robotics Centre
We are delighted to part of a consortium of eight universities which has secured £42million of new investment to fund the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics (NCNR).
Joseph Daniels wins Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the Essex Business Awards 2017
Joseph founded Colchester based Project Etopia to provide a building system to provide affordable, energy-positive classrooms nationwide using modular construction methods so designs are more flexible and need less space.
Colchester’s future-proof Fibre Broadband Project shortlisted for European Award
Colchester Borough Council is delighted that its pioneering town centre dark fibre broadband project has been shortlisted for the 2017 Broadband Award. Deployed in 2016, the future-proof network offers businesses in the town centre up to gigabit speeds. The EU Broadband Award is run by the European Commission, and designed to showcase the best innovations in broadband technology across the member-states. Colchester has been short-listed from among 49 entries, in the category of ‘cost reduction and joint investment in a future-proof infrastructure’.
Colchester businesses invited to comment on sport and leisure development at the Northern Gateway
Colchester’s business community is invited to find out more about the Council’s plans for a new sports hub and leisure led development at Colchester’s Northern Gateway in a series of pre-planning consultation events taking place over the next couple of weeks.
£4.7 million to boost economic growth through Universities in the East of England
The Eastern Academic Research Consortium (Eastern ARC) – comprising the Universities of Essex, East Anglia and Kent – has been awarded £4.7 million by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to establish a network that will support business innovation in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent. The network will build collaborations with businesses and have access to new funding, training, networking opportunities and collaborative working space.
Ginger Nut Media wins collected the Small Employer of the Year award in East of England Apprenticeship Awards
The National Apprenticeship Awards challenge top apprenticeship employers and apprentices across England to come forward and show how apprenticeships have made a real difference to their organisation and careers.
Colchester’s Ginger Nut Media collected the Small Employer of the Year Award at a recent ceremony. Director at Ginger Nut Media, Phil Warnock, said: “We are proud to be recognised during this year’s National Apprenticeship Service Awards for our continued dedication to developing young people through the apprenticeship scheme. But more importantly, we are proud to play our part in enabling young people to achieve their potential; creating a highly skilled, creative and flexible workforce capable of keeping the company at the forefront of the digital marketing sector.”
The regional winners now go forward to the national awards, which are due to be announced in January.