EY recruits over 4500 people and breaks £2b milestone in the UK
EY, the professional services firm providing audit, tax, transaction and advisory services, has reported fee income growth of 8% to £2.010b for the year ending 3 July 2015, up from £1.868b in the previous year, with all service lines and regions reporting growth. Distributable profits increased by 6% from £412m to £437m.
The EACH Awakeover: stay awake so families can gain some much-needed sleep!
When was the last time you saw the sun rise or spent the night having a well-deserved catch-up with your best friends? Well, now’s your chance and with the added bonus that you can raise vital funds to provide care and support to local life-threatened children, young people and their families.
Cambridge BID Chairman discusses exit strategies with Director General
Cambridge BID Chairman Ian Sandison was recently invited by the Director General of the Institute Of Directors Simon Walker, along with other business leaders, to discuss company exit strategies.
East of England organisations urged to apply for free equipment to save local lives
Today the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the Department of Health (DH) are encouraging organisations in the East of England to help make their communities safer as they launch a £1 million partnership to make public access defibrillators and CPR training more widely available across England.
Council set to promote benefits of credit unions for local residents
Cambridge City Council is planning to boost the help it provides for residents on low incomes in the city by expanding its support for the work of credit unions.
Genomics England announces Congenica as an interpretation partner
Genomics England announces that Congenica has won a contract to provide genome interpretation for 8000 patients participating in the 100,000 Genomes Project.
Ingenza’s proprietary technology produces novel antimicrobial peptide
Ingenza is collaborating with researchers at Plymouth University to develop an efficient, scalable microbial production system for epidermicin, an exciting new antibiotic that rapidly kills methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other harmful bacteria.
Wayra Open Future and Cambridge Wireless (CW) launch partnership
Wayra Open Future, Telefonica’s digital start-up accelerator, has signed a new partnership with Cambridge Wireless (CW) to support growing mobile and wireless technology businesses and to strengthen links between London and Cambridge tech hubs.
September 2015 newsletter from Cresset
News on software and services for small molecule discovery and design.
Cambridge Sensotec offers fully configurable Rapidox gas analysers
Due to a large growth in its product range, Cambridge Sensotec's Rapidox gas analysers have now become modular and fully configurable. This will allow customers to tailor their requirements to meet their bespoke gas analysis demands.
CHS Group launches homeless awareness campaign
In response to the recent figures published by Cambridge City Council in the 2016-2019 Housing Strategy draft, CHS Group has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of various homeless services in Cambridge.
Students to carry out safety campaign
Anglia Ruskin University is one of three institutions chosen to carry out a campaign to prevent students becoming victims of crime.
Cambridge named as one of the best cities in the UK for customer service
Following the success of last year’s Mystery Shop and Awards Programme, Cambridge Business Improvement District (BID) held its third Awards evening this week to recognise and reward high levels of customer service among Cambridge businesses, which according to the organisation have reached an all-time high.
Festival explores the impact of religion and faith
A conversation exploring the implications of trans identities for religious faith headlines a range of events exploring the impact of religion and faith in today’s world at this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas, which runs from Monday 19 October until Sunday 1 November.
Study enables greater understanding of polycystic ovary syndrome
A new genetic study of over 200,000 women reveals the underlying mechanisms of polycystic ovary syndrome, as well as potential interventions.
Ravelin raises more than £1.3M to fight online payment fraud
Cambridge based VC Amadeus Capital Partners invests in machine learning fintech company Ravelin.
Lord Broers joins distinguished panel at Cambridge Graphene conference
Lord Alec Broers, the former Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University and a Board member of the Cambridge Graphene Centre, will take part in a distinguished panel on Friday 6th November at the 3rd CIR Graphene Business Conference.
Report proposes shared commercial waste service to increase market share
Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District councillors are set to consider joining forces for a shared commercial waste service to grow the business.
Launching soon: the Salimetrics Domestic Canine Programme
Involved in animal welfare? Testing analytes and biomarkers in saliva enables measurement of individual differences in stress- and exercise-related physiology in the context of domesticated canines’ everyday social worlds, training programmes, work days, and competitions.
The final fling: wine tasting at Westminster College
Westminster College hosts their final wine tasting on Friday 6th November 2015.
Cambridge tech cluster is top of the list as new film launches
Cambridge is the focus of a new short film, launched today, produced by the Centre for Cities. It explores how the city’s historical strengths and university are driving forward-looking, innovative small and medium-sized businesses.
Congenica awarded £300k Innovate UK grant to unlock stratified medicine
Life Sciences Minister George Freeman MP today announced at the GREAT Healthcare Week at the Milan Expo, that Congenica, a world leading developer of genome-based discovery and diagnostic technologies, has been awarded £300,000 by Innovate UK as part of its ‘Finding value in complex data’ competition.
Details of £2 billion roads plan for the East of England
Highways England is meeting with suppliers and stakeholders today (Tuesday) and on Thursday (1 October) to set out how more than £2 billion of government investment to improve the capacity and condition of roads across the East of England will be delivered.
Cambridge launch for WHOLE EARTH? exhibition
Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Cambridge Environment and Energy Section are bringing the new WHOLE EARTH? photographic exhibition to Cambridge next month.
New scanning clinical service to benefit more patients
More local patients are benefiting from a new clinical service at CUH offering scanning for cancer and other conditions.