Be ready to engage Green Deal and ECO opportunities with free workshop programmes designed specifically for London based SMEs. The Energy Saving Trust is launching a new free workshop journey to prepare SMEs based in London for the upcoming Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and to raise awareness of the opportunities which this…
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Space Station, the local, family owned self storage company, is starting a competition to let local people help celebrate the company’s 30th anniversary. At the end of the competition, a winner will be picked and will have a choice of three prizes: a spa day experience, a driving day experience, or top price London dinner…
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Hounslow Education Business Partnership announced at West Thames College on Thursday 19 July 2012 that they are to be known as Spark!, with the name change coming into effect immediately.
Spark!’s Summer Celebration was held jointly with Hounslow Chamber of Commerce and was attended by over 60 partners from local businesses, schools and colleges. Members of Spark! staff launched their new name with a video that shared local students’ experiences of Spark! and how the Hounslow Borough-based charity changes their lives.
The organisation, established in 1980, works with education and business to prepare young people for working life. Spark! delivers a wide range of workbased learning activities, work placements, internships and a fully accredited Apprenticeship programme. It works with many of the region’s biggest employers including Sky, GSK and British Airways, as well as many hundreds of small businesses.
Here follows a letter sent on 31st July from Suzie Betlem to David Laycock, Ballymore, on behalf of the Brentford Chamber of Commerce.
You may also want to read the article on Brentford TW8, and look at the photos.
On behalf of all our Members of The Brentford Chamber of Commerce, and in agreement with the Executive Committee, we would like to put forward our combined views with regard to the planning application being put forward for the development of Brentford south of the High Street.
The Brentford business community has been eagerly waiting for the proposed redevelopment, as the area has been run down for over 15 years during which time many Brentford businesses have struggled to survive and prosper.
It was a wet and miserable day for Brentford Chamber’s “Summer” picnic but nevertheless people gathered at Boston Manor House with picnic in one hand and umbrellas in the other.
Sanda Connelly of Laing welcomed us to Boston Manor House and briefly reminded us of all that Laing do in terms of looking after parks, buildings and libraries as part of their contract with London Borough of Hounslow with a strong message to “use or lose your libraries“.
Thank you to everyone who came to our AGM on May 15th at the Hock Cellar. The formal 2012 Minutes of Brentford Chamber AGM can also be downloaded (pdf).
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our Summer picnic next Tuesday at Boston Manor House. Please remember to bring your picnic and do let us know you’re coming if you haven’t already.
I established my own business in Brentford some six years ago, driven by the potential vision for new businesses that would arise out of the substantial redevelopments being proposed by all the new house and commercial building firms.
Hounslow Education Business Partnership (HEBP), the local charity devoted to supporting young people’s transition into the world of work, will be delivering a science fair for students at Hounslow Manor School, Hounslow, from 8.35am on Tuesday 17th July 2012. Participating employers include British Airways, the Institute of Physics and GSK. The event, for Year 7…
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At the end of the year Membership comprised:
Full 45
Honorary 9
Complimentary 5
The full report is available to download 
2012 Financial Report
I draw Members’ attention to the following issues of significance:
Friday, June 15th saw representatives from two Hounslow primary schools attend a staff team building day at West London Audi. The team building activity included the Audi staff building and donating 4 children’s mountain bikes to the schools. Representatives including teachers and parents accompanied pupils at the event where they were treated to presentations from…
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