In this issue
Find out about the Apprenticeship Levy
Food Hygiene
Could you sponsor Star for a Night 2017?
It's not a Christmas number 1...
2016 Entrepreneur Academy Winner
Building the brand
James Hallam Ltd
Surrey Skills Academy
A yearly round up
What's on
What's on

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)

Redhill Micropreneurs
Podcast
We were delighted to help out the Rehill Micropreneurs with their latest podcast
Funding/Awards
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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Food Hygiene
Sharing good news on social media

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.

“It would be great to have 100% of our food businesses achieving a top score of 5 in the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme,” says Councillor James Durrant, the council’s portfolio holder for enforcement.  “By sharing with our social media followers those businesses that achieve a top score, we hope to encourage more restaurants, cafes and so on to up their game and aim for a 5.”

Cllr Durrant continues: “It’s good for businesses to display a 5 rating sticker in their window as it gives customers confidence that food hygiene at that establishment is very good. We also want to keep the scheme fresh in residents’ minds to encourage them to ask establishments what the food hygiene rating is there if the information is not already on display.”

To find out more about the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme at Reigate & Banstead visit our website [insert link: http://www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk/info/20301/food_hygiene_rating_scheme]. To search for the rating of local food businesses, what the different ratings mean or find out more about the scheme nationwide, visit http://ratings.food.gov.uk/.

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