Brentford Chamber

New Business Support Programme

Thameside Enterprise Would it be easier to grow your business if you had an understanding of finance? Would a better understanding of costing and pricing help you make the correct decisions? Would the ability to set targets and how to achieve them increase your confidence in how to manage your business?

Hounslow Council are supporting businesses in the borough by funding a series of free business finance workshops and 1 to 1 coaching. Over the next two years nearly 200 businesses in the borough will be improving their skills and confidence in how they use their business figures to analyse and manage their business.

Get to Grips with Business Finance

Thameside Enterprise If you find understanding business finances daunting and complex, help is at hand with a new programme of workshops aimed at small and medium sized businesses in the London Borough of Hounslow.

The workshops will cover a range of everyday financial issues facing businesses, from understanding profit and loss, costing and pricing, through to how to raise finance to help your business grow. Any trading business based in Hounslow Borough and employs less than 50 people is eligible. The workshops are funded by London Borough of Hounslow.

Invitation to Consultation on Hounslow’s Budget

You are invited to join Cllrs Steve Curran, leader of the Council, and Cllr Theo Dennison, lead member for Finance and Citizen Engagment, as they present the council’s budget for the next 2015/16 year to us.

There is a 15 minute presentation on the approach to the budget and the savings next year, taxation and business rates, business support, parking and planning.

LBHounslow Budget Consultation

Public Consultation about Watermans Redevelopment

Hounslow Council is proposing to regenerate the waterside area of Waterman’s Gardens to re-provide 26 houseboat moorings along with additional improvements to the surrounding foreshore area, and park area.

Watermans Garden is an area of park land bordering both Brentford High Street and a shallow area of the River Thames separated from the main river by Brentford Ait island. The development of the site is focused on the immediate foreshore area and the eastern end of the park nearest Victoria Steps Quay.

Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day

The Mayor, Councillor Corinna Smart invites you to join her along with representatives from the British Legion Branches, Armed Forces, Civilian Forces and standard bearers to mark Armistice Day. The event will take place in the Members Car Park, Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow TW3 4DN on Tuesday 11th November 2014 at 10:25am. A brief…
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Tax Reliefs Available for Businesses

Tax reliefs can help businesses save money Do you know that there are a range of tax reliefs/allowances that you may be able to claim that could help save your business money? Whether you are thinking of investing or buying assets for your business, or simply thinking of employing someone, there may be a tax…
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October News from Brentford Chamber

Upcoming Events There is a public consultation on Watermans redevelopment, with two exhibitions this week. We launch our Brentford Dragons 2015 on November 11th from 4pm at the Holiday Inn, followed at 6pm by a budget consultation with LB Hounslow in a Two in One event. Our next match is Brentford FC v Blackburn on…
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A Novotel Drink before BrentfordFC v Blackburn

You are invited to join us for a leisurely drink at the Novotel, Great West Quarter from 1pm on Saturday December 13th before joining us for a quick 2 minute walk to Griffin Park to watch Brentford FC take on Blackburn in the Championship where guests will sit together in the New Road stand. Please…
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Meet Octink

octink In the second of a series looking at quirky Brentford businesses in partnership with BrentfordTW8.com, we interview Octink.

Who are you?

Octink has been in business since 1962 and in Brentford since 2005 producing large format printing, signage, interior fit-outs

Octink delivers creative display solutions to connect people with brands, anywhere, anytime. Today we are one of the UK’s leading innovators merging creative graphics and signage with construction. We can manage entire projects, whether a stand for product launches or an entire building.

LB Hounslow Responds

Brentford Chamber of Commerce sent a letter to Brendon Walsh last month raising a small number of important issues. Here is Brendon’s response.

Thank you for your letter of 17 September, and I am pleased that you found the visit to be a positive one. Officers would like to thank you and your colleagues for their time and we have already put into motion responses to several of the issues raised, as well as projects to build upon the exciting opportunities for further regeneration and economic growth that exist in Brentford’s unique context. I would like to respond to the specific points raised in your letter.

Planning Process

The Council places a great deal of importance on quality of design, and works with applicants from an early stage to ensure that the opportunities presented by individual sites and land uses are realised to create a quality environment for all. This is a responsibility we take seriously. At the early stages of a project we are pro-active about getting the ‘big moves’ right in terms of massing, orientation and access.

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