What's on
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7 Dec 16.00-20.00 Christmas Fair & Networking for St Catherines Hospice, Hartsfield Manor, Betchworth
13 Dec 11.00-13.00 Bravo Free Networking Event, The Plough & Furrow, Smallfield
14 Dec 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch, Building the brand, Tina from Famous Publicity
15 Dec 08.00-09.30 Employer Breakfast Meeting, Apprentichip Levy, East Surrey College, Redhill (see main article)
18 Jan 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch New Year Resolutions, Town Hall, Reigate (TBC)
15 Feb 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch, Town Hall, Reigate (TBC)
16 Feb 08.30-11.30 Protea People, How to create productive & meaningful meetings, Town hall, Reigate for more info
12 April 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch Website video, Town Hall, Reigate (TBC)
14 June 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch Marketing Strategy, Town Hall, Reigate (TBC)
12 July 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch Cyber Security, Town Hall, Reigate (TBC)
13 Sept 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch Improve your on-line profile, Town Hall, Reigate (TBC)
18 Oct 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch Funding Business Growth, Town Hall, Reigate (TBC)
15 Nov 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch Sport/Fitness/motivation and link to business objectives (TBC)
13 Dec 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch Improving profit margins/business efficiency (TBC)
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Redhill Micropreneurs
Podcast
We were delighted to help out the Rehill Micropreneurs with their latest podcast
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Business Support Grants
From Reigate & Banstead Borough Council
Do you have a business based in the borough, with fewer than four employees? Are you looking to start, develop or grow?
Apply for our business support grant of up to £1,000. Just fill in a simple application form and submit it, along with your business plan.
Find out more.
Coast to Capital business growth grants
The new round of funding is open from 14 November 2016 for spend between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018. The deadline for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) will be 24 September 2017. Expressions of Interest (EOI) from small and medium (SMEs) sized businesses that are looking to expand and to create new jobs but not finding it easy to source the finance required. Grants of up to 40% of a total project cost can be provided to applicants that meet the eligibility criteria, are located within the Coast to Capital Region and can demonstrate how the investment will lead to job creation and growth.
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It's not a Christmas number 1...
but we have two top 10s!
We were delighted that Reigate & Banstead came in at:
Number 7 in the Local Government Association figures for Count of births of new enterprises, with 1,005 new companies getting set up in 2015. We were benchmarked against all 55 local authority districts in the South East. We were also ranked...
Number 10 in a new Grant Thornton Vibrant Economy Index, this index measures acrosse six baskets of socio-economic indicators, to provide an indication of the vibrancy of the area and the borough was ranked 10th out of 324 English local authority areas.
2016 Entrepreneur Academy Winner
We had a really high standard in this year's Entrepreneur Academy. The six month course ran once a month at East Surrey College, where the group had access to high level speakers to round their business knowledge, and the last session saw them pitch their business ideas to our 'Dragons'.
The Dragons were: Brian Woods, Chair of the FSB; Rosemary French, Gatwick Diamond; Matt Turner, Creative Pod.
After much deliberation they decided that the investment would go to two winners Flavit Seaweed, based in Merstham who sell 100% natural seaweed flavouring and Powertutors a private tuition service based in Redhill.
We will be running the Entrepreneurs Academy again in 2017 register your interest now!
Building the brand
Learning lunch 12-14.00 Wed 14 December, Town Hall, Reigate
Our speaker this month is the delightful Tina Fotherby from Famous Publicity. Tina worked for four years with one of Britain’s most famous retailers, and former TV Dragon Theo Paphitis. As well as looking after his PR needs, she was Head of PR for his stationery chain, Ryman. Famous Publicity delivers a wide range of services that are tailor-made to suit a client’s needs. Tina will be talking about how to use PR to raise your profile. Don’t miss out-book your space today!
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Find out about the Apprenticeship Levy
and how it could affect your business
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Reigate & Banstead Borough Council is inviting food businesses which earn a top rating for food hygiene to share the good news with customers through Twitter and Facebook.
If yours is one of the 1,050 food businesses in Reigate & Banstead, one of our food hygiene inspectors has most likely visited you at some point to check your food hygiene policies and practices to give you a rating and, if needed, advice about improvements.
Over the next year, our environmental health officers will visit around 350 establishments, around 90% of which are likely to receive a very good 5 out of 5 for hygiene. If yours is one of them, we would like to share the good news on social media with our 7,600 followers on Twitter and 3,300 on Facebook.
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Now in its 18th year, Star for a Night is a well-established and successful performing arts project for 11 to 18 year olds. The project is funded by Reigate & Banstead Borough Council, external sponsors and ticket sales and provides the following to participants free of charge: - A professional audition
- 8 weeks of tuition in dance/musical theatre
- The opportunity to perform on-stage
- The chance to win a scholarship to a local performing arts school
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James Hallam Ltd, one of the UK’s most respected independent Insurance Brokers, has opened a new office in Redhill, as part of the continued growth of its Corporate Risks business.
The Redhill office opened on 21 September, follows new offices in Birmingham and Ashford earlier in 2016.
James Hallam, Redhill joined the Surrey Chambers of Commerce in October 2016, and the team are looking forward to building their local business network through the coming months and years.
The prime focus for the Redhill team will be middle market corporate business in the ‘coast to capital’ region stretching from Brighton and Hove, up through Surrey and Sussex to South London.
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Surrey Skills Academy is a ‘single point of information’ for access to training opportunities including courses, information, and signposting to partner and other organisations. There are some spaces on local courses coming up in the new year, including CIEH Level 2 in food safety and emergency first aid at work. The courses are free to attend.
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A yearly round up
Its been a busy 2016
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It has been a great year meeting so many local businesses, and working with our local partners to deliver support including:
- An Entrepreneur Academy, run at East Surrey College with great speakers including Morrisons Solicitors and Kingston Smith
- 2 Redhill & Reigate Business forums run with FSB, Surrey Chambers of Commerce, Morrisons Solicitors, Altus Maxwell Brown & Avocado Audio Visual
- 39 Business Support Grants awarded to local businesses
- 360 local school children visiting the Big Bang careers event at the Harlequin
- 1,582 local businesses registered on it's local database
- 6 Business Leaders meetings with large employers in the borough
- New Business Guild in Redhill established
- New Business Guild in Banstead established
- 10 Learning lunches with informative speakers
- 12 Business e-bulletins sent to around 2,000 local businesses people
- 5 two-day Let's start a business' courses for budding entrepreneurs at the Town Hall
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