We now run the following nationwide; Industrial Trust Programmes, First Edition, Go4SET, Engineering Education Scheme (England & Scotland), Headstart and The Year in Industry. Our schemes target 11-21 year olds and aim to provide a real life exposure to industry, business and higher education. We want to help students make informed choices at key stages in their education. The Year in Industry provides talented young people with paid, degree relevant work placements in the year out before or during their university course. The EES is a prestigious work experience scheme. Students get in-depth, hands on experience of engineering, design and research at a professional level, and gain experience of problem solving, team working, presentation skills and project management.

EEF is the organisation for manufacturing, engineering and technology-based businesses.

English Heritage exists to protect and promote England's spectacular historic environment and ensure that its past is researched and understood. English Heritage has a number of grant schemes designed to help with the protection and promotion of the Historic Environment. For more information on the grants avaialble please visit http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1120 They also fund a seriesof community projects, and offer trips for to over 400 sites for educational purposes.

Enterprise Cornwalls’ experienced business advisors provide advice and guidance on starting and running your own business in simple, easy to understand language. They are available to meet with you to talk through your business idea and to guide you through the key issues of planning a new business e.g. the implications of self employment, the legal requirements, market research & raising finance.

Government programme dedicated to helping companies become more competitive and more profitable by reducing waste at source. Includes helpline and free counselling visits.

Envision is a partnership of not-for-profit independent environmental support organisations in the South West, offering business cost saving and new markets support.

Equality and Human Rights Commission is the expert body in Great Britain on equality. It is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) established under the Equality Act 2006. The commission is working to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality, protect human rights and to build good relations, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to participate in society.

The EUbusiness web site is Europe's leading independent online business information service about the European Union - SME news about EU legislation, employment law, the euro, and economic data.

Details of patent information centres and products, patent search engines and index, with a link to Espace which provides a search facility for over 30 million patent documents.

The European Social Fund (ESF) was set up to improve employment opportunities in the European Union and so help raise standards of living. It aims to help people fulfil their potential by giving them better skills and better job prospects. The ambitions for these economic investment programmes (European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund) are to build on the Objective One Programme success in regenerating the economy of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. See website for funding opportunities.

Exeter Advanced Technologies (X-AT) offers a range of specialised services and facilities to industry in the South West and beyond. We have the expertise to help your company with Product Design and Development, Materials Selection, Analysis and Characterisation, Electronic Design, Manufacture and Testing, Software Development. X-AT works flexibly with clients, from individual inventors to multi-national corporations, providing solutions from a simple telephone referral to long term research projects.

ECGD, the Export Credits Guarantee Department, is the UK's official Export Credit Agency.