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This year has seen our founder, Kim Glover, receive the Grow Exeter Top 100 most influential women award in March, and then the WeAreTheCity Rising Star award in June. The Network itself has been shortlisted for UK External Network of the Year in the Manchester PA Network Awards, taking place in November – fingers crossed!

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A development conference for PAs and key office staff from across the South West has been declared a huge success, with a 40 per cent growth in attendance on last year.

The event was staged in Bristol by the Exeter PA Network and offered training, development and networking for executive assistants, personal assistants, secretaries and administrators.

And building on the success of this event, organisers have already begun to plan next year’s conference.

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