We are currently looking for friendly, enthusiastic people to work as seasonal staff in the following roles:
People with an interest in history and visitor service, who would like to train to be Syon House Guides
Sales oriented Retail Assistants to work in the Visitor Centre selling tickets, gifts and advising visitors and guests.
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You are invited to tour one of Brentford’s most prestigious businesses, Brompton Bicyles on January 21st. In order to see the factory at work please be prompt at 3:30pm Refreshments will be provided.
Our next event is at Brompton Bicycles on January 21st. Details will follow but please mark it in your diary. Brompton is Brentford’s most iconic business and one of the few local manufacturers left.
Also we are taking bookings to visit Brentford Football Club en masse on February 8th against Crawley. You are invited to Siracusa Restaurant for lunch beforehand for a fantastically low £20 for lunch and football. Please let us know if you’d like to join us.
Spark! has become a partner in delivering the Mosaic Enterprise Challenge in the London Borough of Hounslow. The Mosaic Enterprise Challenge is a national competition for secondary school students across the UK, designed to develop and encourage their entrepreneurial skills. Teams of students work with a mentor from the business community to learn about becoming future business leaders, play a simulation game and come up with fantastic business ideas.
Here follows Suzie Betlem’s speech which she gave at the Planning Committee last week, speaking in support of the Lionel Road development:
On behalf of the Brentford Chamber of Commerce, we would like to formally support the proposed development and planning application put forward for the New Brentford Football club stadium complex.
We firmly believe that the development is a vital business and community asset and will kick start the much needed economic growth that Brentford has been lacking in recent years.
Small Business Saturday is taking place right across the UK for the first time on Saturday 7 December.
It is a national grassroots campaign to encourage people to shop locally as well as support small businesses in their communities on the day and beyond.
We know that everyone gets busy with events in the run up to Christmas so our next event will be in January.
However there will be a Civic Carol Service on 11th December.
Local charity Outside Chance is delighted to announce that Garth Buckle MBE has recently joined its Board of Trustees.
“Garth brings a wealth of local knowledge to our existing board and, with recently secured funding from Hounslow Council, will be pivotal in taking our anti crime workshops into local primary and secondary schools and to youth groups across the borough”.
Shop owners in Hounslow and Brentford have the chance to bid for grants to give their stores a facelift.
Up to £160,000 is available to traders who want to spruce up their shop front, as part of the Mayor of London and council’s commitment to help regenerate Hounslow and Brentford.
The Mayor is investing £3 million in Hounslow and Brentford from his Outer London Fund, an initiative which is helping increase the vibrancy and growth of high streets across London.