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Brompton Bicycle

Brentford Chamber Visits Brompton

Brompton BicycleOur latest Chamber event on Tuesday, gave our members a privileged and fascinating tour of Brompton Bicycle’s factory and headquarters, one of Brentford’s, if not London’s,leading and thriving manufacturers.

We were shown around the factory floor and could see how the streamlined assembly lines worked, and how each individually designed component part was put together to form the iconic Brompton.

Seasonal Staff Wanted for Syon House

thumb syonparkWe 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.

December News from Brentford Chamber

Upcoming Events

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.

Mosaic Enterprise Challenge

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.

Brentford Chamber Supports Lionel Road

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.

Think Local on Small Business Saturday

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.

November News from Brentford Chamber

Upcoming Events

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.

Outside Chance Welcomes New Expertise

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”.

Local shopkeepers invited to give stores a makeover

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.

Sky Academy Launches to Support Under 25s

Sky has set out its vision to use the power of television, creativity and sport to help young people in Britain and Ireland to build skills, experience and self-belief through the Sky Academy.

As it approaches its 25th anniversary at the start of 2014, Sky is establishing Sky Academy to deliver what it describes as a ground-breaking set of initiatives to support the under-25s, the generation born since Sky’s launch in 1989. Its ambition is to create opportunities for up to one million young people through Sky Academy by 2020.