Bring fresh air into your business with surprising results!
21 September 12-2pm
 
 

Come along to September's Learning lunch where  Kate from Airhead Coaching will share how spending time in nature is proven to support cognitive function, reduce anxiety and decrease blood pressure. She will also discuss how the decisions we make whilst out walking are often creative yet grounded, bold yet realistic.

 

Kate, a professional coach and business culture consultant, will talk us though some ideas for bringing nature into you work, and explain the benefits you can hope to experience.


 
 
 
Local business networking events
A round-up of local business events
 
 

14 September: 14.00-15.00 Low carbon across the South East (LoCASE) funding guidelines. Find out how to apply for grant funding of up to £20,000 covering 40% of costs

Book into the online session

 

14 September: 17.30-20.00 RB Inspire, Town Hall Reigate

Free business networking event. Book a session with up to three business mentors to help your business thrive.

 

21 September: 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch, Town Hall Reigate

Reigate & Banstead Learning Lunch - Breathing Fresh Air into your business - Kate Emberson, Airhead Coaching

 

22 September: 08.00-16.00 Grow your business show, Epsom Downs Racecourse 

A great opportunity to network with other local businesses and hear a range of informative speakers

 

29 September: 09.30-12.30 Net Zero 360 Roadmap to your businesses' Net Zero Journey, Guildford

Net Zero 360 courses designed to make your business greener on your first steps towards your net-zero journey.

 

3 October: 17.00-19.00 FSB networking, Town Hall, Reigate

Hear presentations from VA Creative Media on the benefits of inclusive employment & from Reigate's Pilgrim Brewery.

 

12 October: 17.30-20.00 RB Inspire, Town Hall Reigate

Free business networking event.  Book a session with up to three business mentors to help your business thrive.

 

19 October: 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch, Town Hall Reigate 

Reigate & Banstead Learning Lunch - The Science of effective networking - Hilary Nunns, Can Do Courses

 

19 October: 19.00-20.30 RH Networking, Harlequin Theatre, Redhill

Network with other local business owners who are keen to grow their networks.

 

16 November: 12.00-14.00 Learning Lunch, Town Hall Reigate

Reigate & Banstead Learning Lunch - Preparing for Disaster. Making your business more resilient - Ed Walker, Applied Resilience 


 
 
 
Redhill vegan market
18 September 10-4pm
 
 

Come along to support Redhill's first Vegan Market, Ethical Vegan Events are putting on a trail vegan market in Redhill  Sunday 18 September.

 

There will be food stalls and other ethical goodies to buy.

 

From 10-4pm Redhill town centre.


 
 
Are you looking for a corporate volunteering opportunity?
 
 
Run Reigate volunteer flier

Run Reigate is looking for a range of volunteers for Run Reigate on 18 September. 

 

All volunteers will get a free place which they can give to a friend or family member for any one of our events next year.

 

As well as Route Marshals they are also looking for Drivers and Cyclists.


 
 
Webinars about the new UK conformity assessment marking (UKCA) and placing goods on the market in Great Britain
 
 

The UK now has its own robust regulatory framework for goods. Manufacturers need to start using the UK conformity assessment marking to place goods on the market in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). The UKCA regime seeks to ensure consumers are protected from unsafe, and non-compliant goods.

 

  • Economic operators and routes for conformity assessment
  • Understanding marking and labelling requirements
  • Placing goods on the market in Great Britain
  • Placing goods on the market in Northern Ireland
  • Understanding the new UK regulatory regime: focus on construction products
  • Understanding the new UK regulatory regime: focus on medical devices
  • Dedicated Q&A only sessions

 
 
Fill in the Surrey Chambers of Commerce Q3 Economic Survey
 
 

The fieldwork for the Quarterly Economic Survey (QES) for Q3 2022 began on Monday 22nd August and will run until Monday 12th September.

The QES is the largest and longest-running business survey in the UK and is a powerful tool for representing the voice of business to Government. To retain its reputation as a reliable economic indicator and a powerful tool for lobbying, it is vital as many businesses as possible respond to it.

It takes two minutes to have your say in the UK's largest business survey.


 
 
Business growth support for creative businesses
 
 

The Business and IP Centre, which is part of the British Library, have launched a free, three-month programme that can help you expand. Get Ready for Business Growth could allow you to  launch a new product, reach new markets and explore new opportunities.

 

Every three months, 25 creative, UK based businesses will receive specialist support and tailored one-to-one advice from BIPC’s business experts, to help you become more resilient and adaptable in the face of a changing future.


 
 
Women in Innovation Awards 2022/23
 
 

Innovate UK is offering 50 women with exciting, innovative ideas who will inspire others, the opportunity to apply for Innovation Awards.  It is open to entrepreneurs across the UK with the winners will receive a £50,000 grant and a bespoke package of mentoring, coaching and business support.

 

 


 
 
Step on the Great Accelerator, a programme for ambitious start-up founders.
27 and 28 September, Freedom Works, Crawley
 
 

If you’re a fast-growing start-up, Sussex Innovation’s expert team have a packed two day workshops to help jump start your business. Sign up now to reserve your free place at the Business Hot House Great Accelerator.

 

Specialist innovation consultants will deliver a series of sessions including:

 

DAY 1
Stress-Testing Your Business Model
Marketing
Building and Leading Your Team

DAY 2
Using Data to Grow Your Business
Transitioning to Net Zero
How to Harness Academic Insight
Making Ideas Happen


If you’re a fast-growing start-up based in or around Gatwick, Chichester, Brighton & Hove, Worthing or Haywards Heath, Sussex Innovation’s expert team are coming to town with a packed two days of workshops to help jumpstart your business. Sign up now to reserve your free place at the Business Hot House Great Accelerator.

Our specialist innovation consultants will deliver a series of sessions including:

DAY 1

Stress-Testing Your Business Model

Interrogate the key building blocks of your business with the Business Model Canvas, a one-page plan to help you rapidly road test new concepts or explore necessary changes to an established model. This session will be delivered by Maria Bedoya, Sussex Innovation's Research and Insight Coordinator, Maria is experienced in designing and developing innovation and impact projects.

Pitching Your Business

Learn how to tell your story clearly and effectively, engaging investors, partners, customers, employees and media with your values, vision and mission through a well-chosen narrative. Led by Joseph Bradfield, a content and communications expert with experience at one of the country’s biggest PR agencies.

Reboot Your Sales and Marketing

Explore tactics to reach and convert your customers on a small business budget, and get your marketing department focusing on the activities that deliver the best return on investment. Delivered by Head of Centres, Community and Outreach Claire Pasquill, Claire uses her experience of using lean marketing and sales techniques in her own company to advise founders on the fastest way they can acquire customers and develop their pipeline.

Building and Leading Your Team

Find the right plan to scale your business successfully by understanding the key concepts in recruitment and management, and how they help keep your employees motivated and aligned behind the same ambitious plans. With Nigel Lambe, Sussex Innovation’s CEO and a veteran of leadership teams ranging from Small Batch Coffee to PepsiCo.

DAY 2

Using Data to Grow Your Business

Discover the power of data and how capturing the right data sets can give you the insights to make well informed changes that drive growth. With market research and insight expert and business strategist Anne-Fay Townsend, Anne-Fay's experience includes B2B and B2C research reports designed to inform marketing campaigns and generate press coverage as well as to inform strategic business decision-making.

Transitioning to Net Zero

Get prepared for the sustainability challenges of the next decade, with a session focused on the incoming regulation that will help UK businesses target net zero carbon emissions, and the steps you can take now to get ahead of the curve. With Steve Creed, Co-founder of Circular Brighton and Hove, Steve is a specialist coach in sustainability, waste management and climate change.

How to Harness Academic Insight

Find out about the RISE programme from the universities of Sussex and Brighton and other collaboration opportunities in this session run by Kate Thorpe, Deputy Head of Business Engagement, Innovation and Business Partnerships and the University of Sussex.

Making Ideas Happen

Future-proof your business by learning how to encourage a creative mindset and realise successful ideas from within. A masterclass in innovation strategy led by Tanya Popeau, a former advisor to Nesta’s innovation in international development strategy and the United Nations’ Asia-Pacific Innovation Fund.

 

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