In this issue
Local business news
How Artificial Intelligence can support your business
Reigate & Banstead 2025
Coast to Capital Growth Grant Programme
Take time to step back, recharge and reconnect
Surrey's Greener Future
Advertise in Borough News
What's on
Business Support Grant Consultation

Have you received a business support grant?  Please give us your feedback by 2 September.

Don't miss out on these great networking events
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AUGUST

 

9 August 13.00-14.00 Natwest Accelerator tour - Brighton.  Book you space to have a look around the accelerator space in Brighton, a fully funded programme to help your business start, scale and succeed.

 

14 August-16 August 9.30am-1.30pm StartUp Croydon 3-day New Business Seminar. Book your space now

 

20 August 13.00-14.00 Natwest Accelerator tour - Brighton.  Book you space to have a look around the accelerator space in Brighton, a fully funded programme to help your business start, scale and succeed.

 

21 August from 9am Redhill MicropreneursCo working, Co-Tribe, Redhill. Find out more

 

21 August 3-5pm Complimentary WordPress & Digital Marketing Clinic, Reigate Manor. Book your space now

 

30 August 12-2.30pm Crime Against Business in Surrey - Your Q&A,  Reigate Manor Hotel. Book your space now

 

SEPTEMBER

 

3 September 9.30am-12.30pm Sustainable Business Tour of Canon, Reigate Find out more and book your space.

 

10 September 8.30-10am Gatwick Diamond Business - Bank of England Business meeting at Grant Thornton, Crawley. Book your space

 

11 September 12-2pm LEARNING LUNCH: How Artificial Intelligence in finance can support your business – Esther Guy and Natasha Baker, A4C Group. Book here.

 

12 September 8.30am- 5.30pm Grow your Business Show, Epsom Downs racecourse sign up as an attendee or exhibitor.

 

17 September from 9am Redhill Micropreneurs co working day. Co Tribe, Redhill Find out more

 

18 September 3-5pm Complimentary WordPress & Digital Marketing Clinic, Reigate Manor, Book your space now

 

19 September 7.45-10am Surrey Chambers of Commerce Apprentiship Forum, Nescot College Book your space now

 

19 September 5-7pm Morrison Solicitors R&R Connects, Reigate Rugby Club. Book your space now

 

27 September 11am-12pm Gatwick Diamond Business, Cyber Awareness, Hartsfield Manor. Book your space

 

OCTOBER

 

2 October 4.30-7pm Redhill & Reigate Business Forum Panel Discussion, Town Hall, Reigate. Book your space now

 

11 October 10am-12.30pm Getting more out of Linkedin, with Nicola McDonald (£30), Reigate Manor Book your space now 


16 October 12-2pm LEARNING LUNCH, Getting the most from LinkedIn with the ever-popular Emma Turner, My Social Secretary. Book your space now

 

NOVEMBER

 

13 November 11am-2pm LEARNING LUNCH+ Google Digital Garage Comes to Reigate & Banstead! Book your space now

 

DECEMBER

 

11 December 12-2pm LEARNING LUNCH, Feather Duster to Stick: how to deal with late payers. Andrew Athineos, Athena Collections. Book your space here.

 

Join your local Business Guild

 

Business Guilds are a great way to be part of your local business community. 

 

Banstead - fully committed to helping Banstead become the most vibrant village in Surrey in which to live and work. We are a group of local businesses that recognise our responsibility to the greater community.


Redhill - enhancing Redhill as a place to live, work and do business.


Reigate - a local united voluntary voice from the business community, promoting commerce, events, activities and opportunities for the benefit of Reigate.

 

Horley Association of Traders - HATs is an open group that all traders and members of the public can join. We continue to drive awareness of Horley as a town and to promote local business growth.
Funding/Consultations
Funding and awards

Reigate & Banstead Business Support Grant Do you have a business based in the borough with less than four employees? Are you looking to grow?  Why not apply for our Business Support Grant of up to £1,000? 

 

Successful business grant applicants will also receive one year's membership to Enterprise Nation. 

 

Do you need start-up funding for your business?  Struggling to get funding from a mainstream provider? Have a look at responsible finance provider Fredericks Foundation, who may be able to help.
Tools
It's quicker to report things, make payments and apply for services online.
How Artificial Intelligence can support your business
Learning Lunch 11 September 12-2pm
 

Book your space on the September Learning Lunch to hear Esther and Natasha from Accounting for Contractors talk about how financial AI can help you make more informed business decisions and drive your business forward. 

 

Learning Lunches provide a great opportunity to hear informative speakers and network with other local businesses over a light lunch. Book your space now
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Reigate & Banstead 2025
Have your say on the Council's draft Corporate Plan
 

Reigate & Banstead 2025 explains the Council’s proposed priorities for the next five years, and how we will deliver services to those living, working and spending time in our borough.

 

This includes things like how we will deliver leisure and housing services, neighbourhood services (including parks and refuse collection), our plans to tackle climate change and how we will support our towns, villages and local businesses.

 

We would like your views is there anything crucial missing? Let us know what you think
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Events
Local business news
 

Horley 

  • Shiraz, A new Turkish and Mediterranean restaurant has opened in Horley. Find out more

Redhill

  • Congratulations to Winterbotham Darby (Food Unearthed) who have been short-listed in The Grocer New Product awards. For both their reduced fat salami Milano and fresh Iberico Presa products.Good Luck for the awards evening in October!
  • Morrisons Solicitors have been short-listed for the Law Society Awards for the Medium Law Firm of the Year and the Surrey Law Society Legal Awards 2019 Read more
  • Wacky Kingdom the new soft play area in The Belfry Shopping Centre is opening in August.  Read more

Reigate

  • Jellyfish increases its global expansion as it acquires Tel Aviv based digital agency Perelview.  Read more.
  • Tony Tobin's new restaurant at Reigate Heath Golf Club will be accepting bookings on Friday to Sunday. For bookings call 07709 689884
  • Canakin will be opening up a new coffee shop/patisserie in the town. Read more
  • Active Prospects will open a shop in Reigate called Re.Work.It, selling recycled fashion to enable local people with disabilities gain work. Read more

 
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Other news
Coast to Capital Growth Grant Programme
 

Coast to Capital has launched its 2019-20 Growth Grant Programme. The programme provides grant funding to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and social enterprises in the Coast to Capital area.

 

The Coast to Capital Growth Grant Programme is designed to stimulate capital investment to help businesses introduce innovation and improve productivity. Find out more
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Take time to step back, recharge and reconnect
by Mary Maysante from Maysante Consultancy Ltd
 

The panic most people feel these days when the low battery indicator comes up on their phone is unbelievable. Most people will not even contemplate the possibility of their phones running out of juice and take steps to ensure that their phones are either always charged or recharge them if they start to run low.

People ought to take the same level of care to recharge their own batteries. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reports that ‘work-related stress (WRS) is the second most commonly reported cause of occupational ill health in Great Britain’ and a research commissioned by the Myers-Briggs Company reports that nearly a third of workers struggle to switch off outside of work, putting them at a risk of stress.

Holidays are essential for everyone to recharge. It’s a period for relaxation, stepping away from the usual routine and doing something different in a way that would typically help the individual to relax. It is important that people are able or feel able to switch off from work to allow their battery to recharge during holidays.

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Surrey's Greener Future
Local Action for Global Impact
 
Following the declaration of a climate emergency by Surrey County Council in July, they are running a community design challenge to identify and prototype community-led ideas for tackling climate change. They are looking for businesses and local organisations to support the design challenge.
 
In September they will invite residents and community groups to share their ideas about how they and their community could tackle climate change in their local area, either by submitting ideas online or by taking part in a local innovation workshop. They’ll invite a community panel consisting of local people and different organisations to shortlist up to 10 of the ideas.
 
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