2007 News Archive
Isle of Wight Festival & Bestival shortlisted for UK Festival Awards
Monday, October 8, 2007
It's time to reward the best of this summer's festivals, and at this year's UK Festival Awards both the Isle of Wight Festival and the Bestival have been nominated for a whole host of awards.
The Isle of Wight Festival has been nominated in the following categories:
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IWEP Economic Development Organisation of the Year
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
The Isle of Wight Economic Partnership was last night named as the “Economic Development Organisation of the Year” by top industry publication Regeneration and Renewal Magazine, ahead of tough competition from finalists MIDAS (Manchester) and Milton Keynes.
Paul Rudling, Chairman of the IWEP, said “We are really proud to receive this award, it is testa...
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100 young people inspired by music industry greats
Friday, August 31, 2007
100 young people from Island High schools and students of Platform One attended the Inspire Music Conference last week and were treated to a series of masterclasses from some the of the music industries most successful ad influential players.
Mark King, of 80’s supergroup Level 42 who have sold over 30 million records worldwide, opened the event, followed by another local ...
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UK young windsurfing talent competes on Isle of Wight
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
For the first time ever, the Isle of Wight has attracted the up and coming windsurfing talent from around the UK this week to compete against and train with each other as part of the RYA’s Team 15 squad.
This year, the RYA Team 15 squad selected 22 young windsurfers to compete at UKSA in the White Air youth week. One of these lucky youngsters, Rob Pearce is from the Isle o...
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BBC Working Lunch PR
Thursday, July 26, 2007
The Isle of Wight has over recent months grown in the national TV and Media spot light, and today many of Island Businesses are reaping the rewards of their recent involvement with BBC Working Lunch Island features.
Working Lunch is BBC Two's award-winning daily business, personal finance and consumer news programme and is estimated to be watched by over 350,000 million viewers ...
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Isle of Wight Ambassadors launch
Thursday, July 26, 2007
A brand new scheme to promote the Isle of Wight as a business destination was launched on Wednesday 18th July to around eighty of the Island’s business people.
The aim of the scheme is to build a network of business people and to raise the profile of the Isle of Wight, to help expand the economy and in turn improve local business profits.
Shirley Robertson,...
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Economic award nomination
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
The Isle of Wight Economic Partnership has just been voted a finalist in the Regeneration and Renewal Awards 2007 in the category “Best Economic Development Organisation”.
The awards are run by Regeneration and Renewal Magazine, “the” trade publication for both private and public sector organisations working in the economic development and regeneration fi...
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Isle of Wight base for racing stars of the future
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
The Yacht Racing Academy, based in Cowes, aims to train the world class team racers of the future, providing young people who would not otherwise get the opportunity, with the training, mentoring and facilities to develop their racing skill, knowledge and personality.
This initiative managed by UKSA offers young people the chance to become professional racing yacht crew on tw...
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IWEP sponsors Technology Award
Monday, June 18, 2007
The Isle of Wight Economic Partnership (IWEP) is sponsoring the Technology Award at this year’s Chamber of Commerce Business Awards for Excellence, celebrating the best of the Island’s business community. This award will be presented to the company who is judged to have best applied available technology to make a significant transformation of their current business, or has successfu...
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Pink Toolbox at the Innovation Centre
Friday, June 15, 2007
The Innovation Centre’s newest tenants are quirky giftware suppliers The Pink Toolbox Company, who have moved to larger offices to accommodate their rapidly growing business. Following the success of their ‘Pink Toolbox’, which won the Gift of the Year Award in 2006, the company is expanding its product range of co-ordinated kits for the home, car and garden.
T...
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Palmer Johnson moves to Venture Quays
Monday, May 21, 2007
The design and engineering team of one of the world’s eminent mega yacht builders, Palmer Johnson, has opened a new office at Venture Quays, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, as a result of the support of the Isle of Wight Economic Partnership (IWEP) South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) and UK Trade and Investment (UKTI)
Palmer Johnson has been working with the three ...
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Isle of Wight business offers new service to develop renewable energy solutions
Monday, April 30, 2007
With 50% of the Isle of Wight designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty it’s no surprise there is a huge interest in protecting our beautiful surroundings and exploring renewable energy options.
WaB Energy Systems is one Isle of Wight business working on the production of renewable energy options and have this week launched their new “STREAMS” service...
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Isle of Wight success at One Life Live
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
The Isle of Wight had a fantastic presence at this year’s One Life Live exhibition at Olympia. Over 16,000 people attended to view stands offering advice and suggestions for people to make the most of their lives.
The aim was to show off the Island’s benefits and encourage people to consider it as a destination to relocate to. The Isle of Wight exhibition stand was co-ordina...
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Isle of Wight trio selected to take part in Gipsy Moth adventure
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Fifteen young people from the Isle of Wight attended a Gipsy Moth IV selection course at UKSA in February, all hoping to be awarded one of the three crew spaces on the Gipsy Moth global voyage.
During the two day selection process, the young hopefuls took part in a series of challenges aimed to draw out their strengths, develop team working skills and bring out their personaliti...
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Sail Ventures expands into new premises to meet growing demand
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
This week innovative yacht builder Sail Ventures Ltd announced their move into larger premises in Cowes to cater for demand for their new ‘Express 40’ racing yachts, just over six months on from first setting up on the Isle of Wight.
Sail Ventures are a growing business, pioneering new methods in hull manufacture to produce these beautiful and very fast racing yachts...
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Innovation Centre goes wireless
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
A new, free wireless internet facility is available for visitors to the Innovation Centre in Newport. This means that visitors to the centre can log on check their emails, use the internet and work easily away from their offices via a secure network.
The WiFi internet hotspot is part of the Innovation Centre’s aim to provide the highest quality office services as part of the in...
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Isle of Wight students inspired by London Boat Show
Friday, January 26, 2007
Island students had their horizons expanded during a trip to the London Boat Show, held at Excell last week. A group of six students and staff from the Isle of Wight College visited the world famous Boat Show to find out about some of the amazing opportunities open to them in the marine industry and travel and tourism sectors. They viewed the show on the opening day and as well as visiting some...
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Isle of Wight leads the way at Boat Show
Friday, January 26, 2007
The Isle of Wight made a splash as one of the most popular features of the London Boat show in January 2007.
In a new twist this year the London Boat show included interactive games which were designed to break down the elitism of sailing and encourage young people to try sailing and watersports. The arena called “UKSA Deck Games” was operated by the experts in ma...
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Isle of Wight students solve business problems
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
49 students from Island High schools took part in an “Enterprise Lab” workshop learning to pitch and present their business ideas and to solve real problems set by real businesses.
The students from Medina High School and Ryde High School spent four hours at Isle of Wight Economic Partnership’s Innovation Centre in Newport, working with local businesses to deve...
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