In this issue
Reigate and Banstead Business Guide
Consultation on Gatwick Draft Master Plan
Me myself & I - firing up your personal brand and image
'Sleep, eat well and exercise. You need your energy and a clear head'
Entrepreneurs' Academy Final 2018
Pfizer and Chipstead Golf Club land awards for community work from Surrey
BNI networks
What's on
What's on

12 Dec 12.00-14.00 Me, myself, I: firing up your personal brand and image, with Kerrie Ellis and Kevin Horlock. Learning Lunch, Town Hall, Reigate   Book your space now

 

18 Dec 09.00-17.00 Redhill Micropreneurs Co-working dayFind out more 

 

8 Jan 17.30-19.00 Banstead Business Guild Meeting, Cafe Italia, Banstead.  Find out more.

 

16 Jan 17.30-18.30 Redhill Business Guild Meeting, 3 Central Redhill.  Find out more

 

17 Jan 18.30-20.00 Employment Law Update, Morrisons Solicitors, Redhill.  Find out more

 

23 Jan 1200-14.00 Developing Resilience for Work and Life - Julia Philpott, JPLeadership Coaching Learning Lunch, Town Hall, Reigate Book your space now.

 

29 Jan 16.30-17.00 Redhill & Reigate Business Forum Town Hall, Reigate.  Find out more 

 

31 Jan 18.00-20.00 Morrisons Solicitors R&R Connects, Reigate Rugby Club, book your space

 

15 Feb 08.30-10.00 Is your business Disability Confident?  Come along and hear the benefits of taking part in the Disability Confident Scheme. Town Hall, Reigate  Book your space.

 

20 Feb 12.00-14.00 What Makes You So Different?  Nicola McDonald, Attractive Marketing Learning Lunch, Town Hall Reigate.  Book your space now

 

12 March 17.30-19.00 Banstead Business Guild Meeting, Cafe Italia, Banstead.  Find out more

 

12 June Surrey Business Expo, Surrey Sports Park, Guildford.  Find out more.

 

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/Awards
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.

 

 
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Entrepreneurs' Academy Final 2018
 

Members of the 6th Entrepreneurs' Academy presented their business plans to a panel of 'Dragons' at East Surrey College on 22 November.  The pitches were all of a high standard. The winner Ruth Winchester, who set up Doodle Pippin, particularly impressed the judges with her pitch which showcased her homemade polymer crafts. She won the £5,000 investment grant, which she plans to put towards increasing the production of her tiles and creating new designs.  

 

The Entrepreneurs' Academy runs for two hours a month for six months. Register now if you would be interested in taking part in the 2019 Entrepreneurs Academy.

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Events
Reigate and Banstead Business Guide
just published!
 

The Reigate & Banstead Business Guide is an excellent resource for businesses in the borough, as well as those thinking of moving to the borough. 

The directory can be viewed online.  Hard copies are available at the Town Hall reception, or please contact us if you would like a copy.

 

The Business Guide sits alongside the itslocal business directory, which is a database of 1,127 local businesses.

 

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Consultation on Gatwick Draft Master Plan
 

You might be aware that Gatwick Airport is currently consulting on their Draft Master Plan.

 

The Draft Plan sets out three growth scenarios across the next five years, then rolling out to 15 years, and includes detail on how it will address infrastructure, the economy and the environment.  The three scenarios are:

  1. Utilising the single runway, growing through use of technology, larger aircraft and more intensive operations
  2. Utilising the existing standby runway within the existing land footprint
  3. Continuing to safeguard land for an additional wide space runway, if Government Policy requires it.

The first phase of Consultation runs until 10th January 2019 with an online form to complete, and it should only take about 10-15 minutes.

 

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Me myself & I - firing up your personal brand and image
Learning Lunch 12 December
 

At Decembers Learning Lunch we can look forward to a presentation from Kerrie Ellis and Kevin Horlock - Me, Myself & I - firing up your personal brand and image. Understand how our image affects our business.  How we look, how we dress, how we act and how we talk.  This will be a fun, interactive and thought-provoking session which will set us all up for a truly successful 2019.  I will be wearing my finest shirt, look forward to seeing you there.

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'Sleep, eat well and exercise. You need your energy and a clear head'
Enterprise Nation member Big Pip Marketing
 

Catherine Robson from Big Pip Marketing, who joined Enterprise Nation via the partnership with Reigate &Banstead Borough Council, discusses her business journey, lessons from burning out while running a previous company and why you need to look after yourself as well as your business.

 

Describe your business in one sentence.

 

We’re a small marketing agency, based in the South East of England, and we spend our days helping SMEs and independent professionals take their business to the next level through effective and consistent marketing.

 

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Other news
Pfizer and Chipstead Golf Club land awards for community work from Surrey

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer UK and Chipstead Golf Club were among those to secure awards for the contributions they make to local communities at an event organised by Surrey County Council. Tadworth-based Pfizer and Chipstead Golf Club were named the winners of the We Are Surrey 2018 Social Value Awards at a ceremony in Egham, while Playle and Partners, Pellings, White Bus and Unum were all highly commended.

 

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BNI networks

The business referral and networking organisation BNI is setting up a brand new business group in Redhill and Reigate. If you are a local business that would like to increase your word of mouth referral and recommendation business, then please contact Jonathan Hamilton, Executive Director for BNI.

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