The company has also been a significant winner in the 'Kickstart competition', a directly government funded initiative to provide and upgrade to services which should eventually become self-supporting. Stagecoach Devon won three such bids, the Culm Valley connect services in September 2004, the 12A South Devon College services in September 2005 and the upgrade of Exeter City services in spring 2006. The company won tenders outside the traditional boundaries of the Devon General area and has had buses based in Yeovil since 2005, and from September 2006 opened depots at Barnstaple, Bude and Torrington after gaining tenders in the County Council tender round. The introduction of free concessionary fares to the disabled and those over 60 and the inherent organic growth in the business put considerable capacity demands on the company, which is switched to double-deck buses on many routes to cope, with older double-deckers being transferred from other Stagecoach operations. The company has campaigned for a better settlement on the fare concessions and the reimbursement from the scheme is said to be amongst the weakest in the country whilst demand is amongst the strongest. In six months concessionary demand increased 90% over the previous year. In June 2008 Alexander Dennis Enviro400 buses were purchased for use on the new "go"2 service from Exeter to Newton Abbot. In August 2008, Stagecoach announced a trial of a ferry from Torquay to Brixham using a 138-seat catamaran. Stagecoach released a leaflet explaining the details of the trial between 29 August and 27 September 2008. On 6 September 2015, the Plymouth, Dartmouth and Tavistock depots of First Devon & Cornwall were taken over. On the weekend of the 24/25 September 2016 all engineering for Exeter was moved from Belgrave Road to a new maintenance hub built into the Matford park & ride site on the outskirts of Marsh Barton, Exeter  In late October 2018, in Plymouth, Stagecoach took over the majority of Target Travel services throughout the city, as well as re-instating some formerly closed bus-routes. In May 2007 Cooks Coaches of Wellington was purchased by Stagecoach with 60 buses. From a slow start Exeter became one of the first cities in the United KIngdom to have a fleet of entirely low-floor buses after introduction of the buses to the A and H service. Changes to routes in Exeter in September 2007 caused complaints from residents of the affected areas. The folowing month Devon County Council announced that it would fund Stagecoach until March 2008 to restore some of these services after the council received more than 80 letters from passengers.