Worthing Food and Drink Festival 2017

SAT 16th & SUN 17th SEPTEMBER

Don't forget to book your space at this year's Worthing Food & Drink Festival to be held in Steyne Gardens over the weekend of 16th & 17th September.

This event brings thousands of Foodies to Worthing !!! This year our Media Partner is Sussex Life Magazine and they will be promoting the event throughout Sussex. To ensure your business takes advantage of this County wide exposure you just need to get involved.

Town Centre businesses receive a 10% discount on exhibitor rates and can also take advantage of a FREE recipe and promotion in the Festival brochure.   This is the event to promote Worthing as a Food destination so please help put Worthing on the Map !!!

We can only accept two stalls selling each food category and there are only 10 SPACES STILL AVAILABLE so please don't delay ....

To find out more call Sharon on 01903 203252.

Wanna know how we’re shaking things up? 

Launching and running Shake It Up Creative has been exciting, lots of fun and of course challenging. We’re learning and listening. Learning how to run a creative agency in Sussex as two directors with different skill sets whilst listening to our clients and business associates about what they want from us and how we can serve them better.

But the time has come to really shake things up! Here’s how:

• We’ll be rolling out helpful content on design, websites, marketing, PR and SEO topics twice each month. Our aim is to engage more with our current clients and business associates and to be a useful marketing resource for growing businesses.
• Our website is being revamped. Be sure to follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page so you don’t miss the big reveal!
• We’ve established a solid and reliable talent bank which enables us to offer comprehensive all-in-one marketing solutions for SMEs. Examples include video production, photography, blogger outreach, copywriting and illustration.
• In this fast-paced industry, we need to ensure we’re up to date on new techniques, trends, tech, web and marketing skills. We’ll be upping our game through some bespoke training, attending more conferences and seminars.
• Towards the end of the year we’ll be taking our free #ShakeItHUB help sessions online . Opening up this valuable and popular opportunity to businesses based anywhere in the UK will enable us to help more businesses solve problems and get the help they need. Keep an eye on our Twitter and Facebook to find out more when the time comes.
• We use our knowledge and skills to train and teach other businesses through partnerships with other organisations. For example, we recently gave a talk on digital marketing at a Prince’s Trust event in Brighton, we’re running our popular SEO Workshop in conjunction with Portslade Adult Learning, and we’ve signed up to deliver some ‘WiseUp2’ sessions for the Worthing & Adur Chamber of Commerce over the next few months (which are open to non-members too).
  

So, we are shaking up our own business to strengthen and grow it further – another step towards our big dream! Our core service offerings are still design for web and print, marketing and PR and SEO. Let us know how our creative company can help you!

Policies not initiatives. Tough talk at METALL

The latest meeting of the Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology Alliance (METALL) took a long look at the Skills Gap facing businesses trying to grow despite the scarcity of candidates

More than 60 attendees from Sussex-based SMEs and the education sector heard from Sir John O’Reilly, Chairman of the ERA Foundation, Maggie Philbin OBE, CEO and co-founder of Teen Tech and Professor Andrew Lloyd, Dean of the College of Life, Health & Physical Sciences & Professor of Biomedical Materials at the University of Brighton.

Both the audience and presenters agreed that the UK has a number of fundamental education issues and that the Government needs to get the conditions right in the UK for the industry to help itself.

Youngsters need more guidance on the opportunities in the sector and the chance to take a closer look at roles in the work place. There is not enough focus on technology subjects in the SATS tests taken at age 11 and GCSEs keep changing.

Next year’s results for instance will not be based on any course work – students will need to memorise information for an exam. This is unlikely to help the situation we already have where the calibre of many graduates, even with 2:1 degrees, is not high enough for the work place; they are being taught to pass exams and do not understand their subject sufficiently to apply it at work.

Listening to the speakers, it was clear that a number of initiatives are already underway to get teenagers more interested in careers in technology, but initiatives come and go. What industry needs is a long-term plan based on a national skills strategy for industry.

Sir John O’Reilly pointed out: “We do not have an issue with STEM subjects in the UK, but it is more of an industrial skills problem, particularly in engineering. New entrants need more awareness of management, production and quality issues and not just the theory behind it.” Professor Andrew Lloyd talked about the new wave of experiential learning that is going some way to meet this challenge. 

The question and answer session heard an argument for introducing children from the age of eight to science and technology subjects to help them to consider a career in manufacturing and engineering when they leave school. Maggie Philbin highlighted the work done by TeenTech in this regard. 

It was interesting to note that some of the SMEs attending considered factors such as enthusiasm, interest, willingness to learn and attitude as more important than academic qualifications when recruiting.

MHA Carpenter Box Practice Director Chris Coopey, who compered the event hosted jointly by MHA Carpenter Box, solicitors asb law and recruitment agency CBSbutler, concluded: “The number of people attending today’s event demonstrated how important an issue this is for the sector. There were some fantastic, thought-provoking ideas from a range of SMEs and an excellent exchange of possible solutions.  One idea mentioned of which I’m a particular fan is making industrial strategy apolitical. It would be a major step forward to pull it out of party politics and look for solutions based on evidence, not dogma or apathy. Particularly with regard to SMEs, successive governments have promised much but delivered very little when it comes to promoting the manufacturing and engineering sector. With Brexit on the horizon, the time to change that is now.”

Sustainable Travel Event June 13th | 16:30 – 19:00 | Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill

Explore sustainable options for commuting & business journeys. Learn from expert speakers and exhibitors, and network with other local organisations.

Speakers

1. Welcome from Mid Sussex District Councillor Gary Marsh, Cabinet Member for Service Delivery

2. Rachel Ryan-Crisp, Burgess Hill Growth Area Programme Manager – Burgess Hill transport & infrastructure upgrades. West Sussex County Council has recently confirmed a £14.9 million funding package for transport and infrastructure improvements in Burgess Hill, including: 

 Capacity building and upgrades to road management systems and junctions

 Better integrated transport solutions, including bus and interchange improvements  New cycle paths and footpaths linking new developments to the town centre 
 A new cycle path to link Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath

3. Peter Lamb, Senior Manager – Scientific Pump Technology, Edwards Vacuum – Business Case Study. Edwards Vacuum has implemented a range of initiatives at their Global Technology Centre to reduce business mileage and help employees choose more sustainable options to travel. These include:

 Charging points for electric vehicles 
 Cycle parking and shower facilities
 Taxi shuttle run to the railway station
 Video conferencing in meeting rooms and Skype for employees
 Priority parking spaces for people who car-share


Peter will share how these measures have worked in practice, cost and CO2e savings achieved and other projects planned by their volunteer Environmental Impact Reduction Group.

Exhibition Stands & Networking

Before and after the presentations there will be time to meet both Event Partners and other local organisations helping encourage the uptake of sustainable transport, including:

 Mid Sussex District Council
 Burgess Hill Business Parks Association
 Haywards Heath & District Business Association
 Sustainable Business Network
 Barnard & Brough Nissan Dealership – electric cars

 Cycleshack – electric bikes and cycle-to-work scheme
 WSCC – Travelwise Scheme
 Co-Wheels Car Club
 Green Circle Network  Metrobus

Book your free tickets here http://sustainablebusiness.org.uk/booking-form-sustainable-travel/

To find out more visit sustainablebusiness.org.uk/network/sustainable-travel/ or call 01273 9642339

Guildcare Wine Tasting Evening - 15th June

Countdown on to StreetVelodrome returning to Worthing

The countdown is on to StreetVelodrome revving in to Worthing once again.

Locally enjoyed and nationally televised, the cycling event remains one of the most thrilling sporting weekends in the town’s calendar.  

Taking place on the weekend of July 1 and 2, hundreds of people are expected to flock to Beach House Grounds for some sensational sporting action and family fun.

Overseen by Worthing Borough Council, it forms part of Discover Worthing, a major marketing campaign launched this summer which is aimed at increasing the numbers of visitors to the wider area.

Councillor Kevin Jenkins, Worthing Borough Council’s executive member for regeneration, said:

“I’m delighted to welcome StreetVelodrome back for another year.

“The previous two year’s sun-drenched weekends of cycle racing have set a high bar for the 2017 competition. But I anticipate that this year the event will be bigger and better than ever before.

“With the addition of a host of other sporting events across the weekend, I urge people of all ages to come down and try things out for themselves so they can Discover a new side of Worthing.”

The format of 2017’s StreetVelodrome competition mirrors the successful set-up from 2016.

In just a few hours, the normally tranquil seafront park is transformed into a professional racing circuit giving people the perfect opportunity to clip on a helmet and test themselves against amateur and pro-riders alike.

The South Coast Rollers, Worthing’s home team, will be taking to the track again, searching for the best new talent to accompany them to the London finals.  

This year, the Worthing StreetVelodrome weekend is also welcoming Worthing FC, Worthing RFC, Worthing Thunder, VC Jubilee and Southdown Leisure - all of whom will be offering visitors the chance to learn new skills, get active and revel in the sporting talent that the town has to offer.

All equipment and coaching will be provided, so all you need to do is turn up and take part.

In addition to the Borough Council’s investment, the StreetVelodrome competition benefits from the faith of its sponsors.  

This year, Worthing StreetVelodrome is being brought to the town in association with:

·         Chandlers of Worthing

·         Lancing College Preparatory School at Worthing

·         Southern Railway

·         Worthing Homes

·         Basepoint

For more information, head to www.WorthingStreetVelodrome.co.uk.

Latest news from Gatwick

Following a year of record growth, Gatwick has been officially recognised as a carbon neutral airport through its use of 100% renewable electricity and Gold Standard carbon credits to offset ground fuel emissions.  The award, from ACI Europe, means that Gatwick Airport Ltd completed Airport Carbon Accreditation at Level 3+ in 2016 for all ground operation emissions that the airport controls – including fuels, electricity and business travel - having achieved Level 3 for the preceding three years. 

Hot off the press is our  Decade of Change report for 2016 which tracks our progress against ten ambitious environmental and community-focused priorities from 2010 to 2020.  This year’s Decade of Change report also highlights a range of innovations that have helped Gatwick to grow more sustainably, including building a new world-leading waste processing plant,  working with our partner Airport Taxis to bring Tesla electric taxis to Gatwick, becoming the UK’s first Autism-Friendly Airport and establishing the Noise Management Board to examine ways to alleviate problems communities experience in relation to noise. 

We have had perfect weather for ‘Gatwick Goes Wild’ this week – and it’s not too late to get involved.  We have an active biodiversity programme which includes managing 75 hectares of thriving woodlands, grasslands and wetlands, inhabited by hundreds of species of mammals, insects and bees, many of which are rare or protected – this week’s activities offer an opportunity to get closer to this local wildlife. ‘Gatwick Goes Wild’ is running from Monday 29 May to Monday 5 June. Spaces for each event will be allocated on a first come, first served basis and all children must be accompanied by an adult. To book a space on any of the sessions, please email rachel.bicker@gatwickairport.com.

Around 2000 beacons have been installed across Gatwick Airport’s two terminals providing an indoor navigation system that is much more reliable than GPS and that enables augmented reality wayfinding for passengers – a world first for an airport.  The lack of satellite signals makes road-based navigation systems – such as Google or Apple maps – unreliable indoors, so Gatwick has deployed a beacon based positioning system to enable reliable ‘blue dot’ on indoor maps, which in time can be used within a range of mobile airport, airline or third party apps.

On the first anniversary of Gatwick’s award winning Hidden Disability Lanyard service, the airport can also announce that it has purchased an Eagle Hoist 4 – a passenger lifting facility that provides safer and more respectful transfer for wheelchair users requiring full assistance to their aircraft seat.  The airport is also investing in two specialist hoist assisted toilet facilities in the next 12 months, each with a height adjustable adult sized changing bench, for people with learning and physical disabilities who may need extra equipment and space to use toilets safely, comfortably and with dignity.

Tenders invited for Dial-a-Ride service

Adur & Worthing Councils are inviting tenders for the provision of a ‘Dial-a-Ride transport service’ for people with additional needs in the area.

Dial-a-Ride works through a telephone booking system and offers a bespoke door-to-door service for those unable to use or reach public transport.

The Councils already offer this valued service, recognising that a lack of transport can be isolating for vulnerable people as well as a barrier to leading a fulfilling and productive life.

They will be looking to secure the service with the award of a two-year contract starting from August 1.

Potential service providers must be able to demonstrate a proven track record for delivering a professional, reliable and quality transport service for disabled or vulnerable people.

Interested parties should register on the Councils’ tendering portal where they can also find out more about the service and what is required.

The Councils’ procurement team will be happy to answer questions from potential suppliers by email on procurement@adur-worthing.gov.uk or by phoning 01903 221499.

The deadline for tenders to be submitted is 5pm on Friday 16th June.