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Home Office funds activities to support Windrush community – uk.gov

Home Office funds activities to support Windrush community
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Charities, grassroots organisations and other community groups have been awarded a share of over £150,000 from the Home Office’s Community Engagement Fund, to go towards raising awareness of the Windrush Status and Windrush Compensation Schemes.  The fund is providing financial support to 16 diverse groups and organisations, who applied for grants of between £5,000 and … Read more

British CERN partner sights international growth with new financing deal – uk.gov

British CERN partner sights international growth with new financing deal
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Quantum Detectors is a small business leading the global market for electron detector systems – cutting-edge technology helping scientists collect vast amounts of data using light. UK Export Finance and Lloyds Bank are providing a new funding package that will enable the firm to invest in new technology and export even more of its British-made … Read more

PM trilateral meeting with Italy and Albania: 16 December 2023 – uk.gov

PM trilateral meeting with Italy and Albania: 16 December 2023
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama today at Palazzo Chigi in Rome.  The leaders agreed on the vital importance of tackling the scourge of illegal migration and the shared sense of urgency that they feel on this issue. They welcomed progress to date and … Read more

Half-year Homes England housebuilding statistics published – uk.gov

Half-year Homes England housebuilding statistics published
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Housing programmes delivered by Homes England resulted in 11,530 new houses starting on site and 11,297 new homes completed between 1 April and 30 September 2023. This represents a decrease in starts and completions compared to the same period in 2022, reflecting the on-going impact of the economic downturn on the housebuilding industry. Although actual … Read more

Spotting transformative potential: Faculty’s ACE supplier story – uk.gov

Spotting transformative potential: Faculty’s ACE supplier story
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Vivace community member Faculty was founded in 2014 by three university friends, who had already spotted that artificial intelligence (AI) was going to be one of the transformative technologies of our time.  What started with a fellowship, a training programme designed to help academic STEM PhD students transition from campus to commercial data science roles, … Read more

British Embassy Turkmenistan and UNDP continue cooperation on climate – uk.gov

British Embassy Turkmenistan and UNDP continue cooperation on climate
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Stephen Conlon, His Majesty’s Ambassador and Narine Sahakyan, UNDP Resident Representative signed a Memorandum of Understanding. On 7 December 2023, the British Embassy in Turkmenistan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to continue joint work on the third phase of preparation and support of development of the draft … Read more

UK welcomes the unveiling of PH National Adaptation Plan – uk.gov

UK welcomes the unveiling of PH National Adaptation Plan
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Photo credit: Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) The Philippines’ NAP sets the direction for the country’s adaptation priorities and identifies opportunities to mobilise investment towards these. Through British Investment Partnerships, the UK has delivered £600,000 of technical assistance through Boston Consulting Group to support the Philippines in formulating the NAP. Welcoming the NAP, … Read more

New deep space radar will transform UK security – uk.gov

New deep space radar will transform UK security
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New space capability programme to improve global security. Cawdor Barracks in Wales identified as preferred UK site, conditional on Environmental Impact Assessment and Town planning approval. All three global radar sites to be operational by the end of the decade. A new landmark radar initiative with the UK’s closest partners will increase UK security by … Read more

Government pledges to boost Britain’s access to nature ahead of COP28 – uk.gov

Government pledges to boost Britain’s access to nature ahead of COP28
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Helping more people get access to our natural heritage and putting nature at the forefront of government efforts to tackle climate change are at the heart of a new package announced by the Environment Secretary today (29 November).   The new package of measures includes launching a search for a new National Park, 34 new landscape … Read more

Industry leaders welcome landmark plan for UK Advanced Manufacturing – uk.gov

Industry leaders welcome landmark plan for UK Advanced Manufacturing
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The package of measures will build on our existing strengths in manufacturing and offer certainty to business by building on our successful programmes and committing more than £4.5 billion to 2030 in targeted funding to back the long-term future of the UK’s world leading industries as well as supporting SMEs through extending and expanding our … Read more