4. Exeter projects
Year 1: Communities and Place
Design out Crime. Old analogue CCTV cameras around the City have been upgraded to digital cameras, providing considerably better quality video imaging.
Design out Crime. Body Worn Video Cameras have been purchased for officers undertaking enforcement activities across the city.
Year 2: Supporting Local Business
Rougemont Gardens. One of the main paths has been redeveloped around the historic gardens, providing more access to residents and visitors, as well as the Red Coat Guides.
s and Design Thinking facilitators to explore the ways in which cultural activity can build ‘pride in place’.
Exeter Innovation Hub. This will provide a City Centre facility from which organisations and individuals can access innovation and entrepreneurship support and resources from the University of Exeter. The Innovation Hub provides a space for local organisations to meet with members of the University of Exeter and other business support partners. It’s an opportunity to gain valuable insights on accessing a wide range of innovation and business growth support programmes tailored to you.
Year 3: People and Skills
City Centre Strategy. This will review the City Centre strategy to attract new visitors to Exeter.
Building Greater Exeter. A project to support the construction sector to strengthen local entrepreneurial ecosystems and support construction and the built environment related businesses at all stages of their development to start, sustain, grow, and innovate, including through local networks, and encourage them to adopt new technologies or processes. Building Greater Exeter will present a two-year programme of talks and workshops encouraging partner businesses to adopt new technologies or processes.
Urban Learning Academy. A joint project with CoLab, Exeter, providing community based adult learning - at times and in places that suit their needs.
Retrofit Skills Centre. In partnership with Exeter College, the Centre will support unemployed individuals to learn new green skills and qualifications to support the City’s transition to net zero.
Exeter Energy Grant. A grant to help residents make their home more energy efficient, and reduce their energy bills.
Exeter Skills Strategy Implementation. Providing support for continuation of the Skills and Employment Hub, located in Exeter Central Library, targeting employment and training advice to residents of Exeter aged 16 – 24 years old, and 50+.