In this issue
Would your business survive an attack?
Gatwick Diamond Business Awards
Response to Gatwick Route 4 flight path
Bravo Networking Event
Rail timetable consultation
Building the brand
Redhill & Reigate Business Forum
Employee Health - Free NHS Health Checks
Is your workplace a healthy one?
What's on
What's on
4 Nov 8-10.30, International Trade Round Table (Latin America) Farnham Castle GU9 0AG. Find out more 

9 Nov 16.30-19.00, Reigate and Redhill Business Forum, Russ McKenzie from ntrust, see main article, Town Hall, Reigate 

10 Nov 11-13.00, Bravo Networking Event, Black Horse Pub, Reigate, book your space

15 Nov 9.30-12.30, Project Argus
, would your company survive and attack? Town Hall, Reigate. Find out more 

16 Nov 12-14.00 Learning Lunch, see main article, Town Hall, Reigate

17 and 24 Nov, 09.30-16.30Let's Start a Business, Town Hall, Reigate. Find out more

22 Nov 09.30-12.30, Proactions are running a Marketing for Growth seminar, including an introduction to social media for business,  Harlequin Theatre, Redhill.  Find out more

23 Nov 17.00-19.00, Meet the Thameslink Manager, to discuss the rail timetable consultation, Reigate Station.

24 Nov 17.30-19.30, Morrisons R&R connects event, sponsored by Kingston Smith, Old Reigation RFC, RH2 8JX.  Book your space now

25 Nov 9.45 Mayors end of the Somme Tour and Lunch, for more details please contact Beverly Barry



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.
Funding/Awards
SME business awards
Congratulations to the following businesses who have been short-listed for the SME Surrey Business Awards:

Best new Business 
  • e-foldi

Green Award 
  • 3F EV Ltd

Service Excellence 
  • Avocado Audio Visual

Not for Profit 
  • Stripey Stork

Business Innovation
  • Laraba Catering

Business of the year
  • 3F EV Limited
  • Accounting4Contactors
  • Langton London Insurance Brokers
  • Laraba Catering
  • Reigate Manor

Passion for Business
Local business woman Sharon McLean has recored some podcasts to help support new businesses.
Do it online
It's quicker to report things, make payments and apply for services online.
Building the brand
Learning lunch 12-14.00 Wed 16 November, Town Hall, Reigate

Come and hear John Berry from Timeless time talk about building your brand.

The Galaxy Note 7 is dead. The Samsung brand is mortally injured. How did it happen, and how can Samsung save its reputation?

Brand is complex. It’s not just about the company logo, website and social media messages, It’s the way the company looks and feels to customers. Come and learn how to build your brand and protect it too.

Brand is like an orange: there’s the skin – the outside. That’s the bit that entices us to the firm or organisation. Then there’s the flesh, the inside. That’s the bit of the firm or organisation we experience after we’ve bought. That’s the bit that can be authentic and in line with what first enticed us. Or it can be a big let-down when the outer promises an emotion that is not there when we take a bite.

Changing the outside, the marketing artefacts, is simple. But brand depends on the competencies, behaviours, values and attitudes of managers and staff.

Come along and learn at the Reigate & Banstead Borough Council Learning Lunch and hear John Berry’s presentation. He’ll teach how to build brand starting from inside the firm or organisation. He’ll teach how firms (including Samsung) should act to secure their brands, protect their brands and react to calamities when brands are damaged.

Book your space now


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