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News updates

View of August

Recent Corporate Finance Services publish their view of August 2009

9 September 09

We should never read too much into the August announcements. The number of deals declined by 15% from the July numbers – smaller than the 24% (full article)

ICT Report

THe EC Joint Research Centre reports on ICT employment and R&D spend.

2 September 09

European Union. A new report by the JRC shows that ICT is the biggest sector in R&D in (full article)

Funding

Bristol forum for help access government funding for business in the SW.

2 September 09

Companies from across South West England will find out how to access more than £1 billion of support to improve their businesses at an event in (full article)

Upcoming events

Business Show

GWE hold the Bristol Business Show

Wednesday, 16th September 2009 @ 9:00

The Business Show is the key business-to-business exhibition event in Bristol, open to the business community across the South (full article)

Presentation Forum

Envestors company presentations

Wednesday, 16th September 2009 @ 18:00

The event will feature six companies looking to raise finance of up to £2m; each one will make an eight minute investment pitch, with two minutes (full article)

Xenos Forum

West Wales Investment Forum

Thursday, 17th September 2009 @ 13:00

Please see the Xenos website for more (full article)

Harnessing the Power of the Internet

Bristol Enterprise Networks presents...

Tuesday, 22nd September 2009 @ 0:00

More details to be posted soon. Please see BEN website view URL (full article)

OpenCoffee

Open breakfast meeting for making connections

Tuesday, 22nd September 2009 @ 8:00

The OpenCoffee Club was started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to organise real-world informal meetups to chat, network (full article)

Investor Forum

Beers & Partners Investor Forum

Thursday, 24th September 2009 @ 12:00

This invitation is to a series of short and informal forums. They are free of charge, hosted by Beer & Partners with support from Advantage West (full article)

SWAIN Forum

SWAIN hold a local investment forum.

Tuesday, 29th September 2009 @ 12:00

This event is aimed at mainly at investors from Cornwall, Devon, Dorset or Somerset though if anyone from the other regions would like to travel (full article)

Mike Page Accounting presents

Make More Profit - Pay Less Tax!

Wednesday, 30th September 2009 @ 19:00

The Federation Of Small Businesses organise a Free Business Seminar and Networking Event on the last Wednesday evening of each month at the Aztec (full article)

The personalised Healthcare Revolutionwe

Bristol Enterprise Networks and the NHS presents...

Thursday, 8th October 2009 @ 0:00

More details to be posted soon. Please see BEN website view URL (full article)

Wireless Start-Up Fest 2009

A one day conference for wireless and comms innovation.

Thursday, 8th October 2009 @ 9:00

The UK’s most successful ‘Wireless Clusters’ come together to present Wireless Start-Up Fest 2009, a one-day conference on Thursday 8th (full article)

R&D Tax Relief

Workshop: Maximising Your Claims & recent developments.

Thursday, 8th October 2009 @ 14:00

R&D tax relief can provide a critical source of funding for companies developing innovative new products, and recent changes to the scheme have (full article)

SpeedFunding

AngelsDen SpeedFunding Event

Tuesday, 20th October 2009 @ 15:00

Angels Den's unique SpeedFunding event. Pitch individually to Angels - no standing up and quaking! Then chat to them informally afterwards over a (full article)