The Class of 2015!!

Welcome to the Worthing & Adur Chamber Ambassadors for 2015/2016

The Chamber Ambassador role was created to recognise members who go that extra mile to support and promote the Chamber at every opportunity. They are committed to improving communication within the Chamber and will be present at our events to welcome all members and guests, answer any questions and listen to your suggestions.

As all Ambassadors acknowledge, the more involved you are, the more you gain so why not come along and meet the team at one of our events soon?

Our Ambassador's:

From L-R,

Julie Cheesman - Bsure Bookkeeping, Kathy Chapman, Kate Honey - Mint D4B, Clive Spring - Yoohoo Creative, Katrina Travis - 1st 4 Uniform, Kelly O'Haire - Ask For The Moon, Martin Smith - Martin Smith Learning and Development, Martin Bloomfield - Bloomfield Digital, Mel Peters - Bestof Worthing, Pete Jenkins - Gamification+ Ltd, Sheila Bailey - Willow Private Finance, Tracy Dawe - TAD Accountancy Services.

Birdman Is Back! When? 15th and 16th August 2015 Worthing International Birdman is only a few weeks away now, the promotional frenzy is hotting up. Following from last years record breaking 159m jackpot winning flight, we have the most flyers ever this year, more than 30 flyers each day, fun flyers and professionals from around the globe. Yes, it's that time of year that I ask for you successful Worthing businesses to part with some cash to help fund this excellent community event which costs over £60,000 to host. Sponsorship Opportunities This year, having secured a number of headline sponsors, including the Stagecoach bus company, we are focusing our promotions on  the big screen advertising. Your logo and strapline viewed by over 20,000 at the event, consistently throughout the weekend. The screen advertising is just £100 - supply your logo and we'll do the rest. We can work to any budget, but you'll need to get in quick to secure your spot. £100 will get your logo on the big screens £250 will get you above, a 3m banner on the Pier, logo and link from Birdman website and 2 VIP spaces on the pier. £500 will get you all the above, plus 2 more banners and 5 VIPs £1000 will get you all the above, a total of 10 VIPs and increased frequency on the screens. The Event Worthing International Birdman is now in its 8th successful year and is a fantastic opportunity to promote your company at this high profile fun community event run by Worthing Town Centre Initiative, a 'not for profit' Community Interest Company. The event drawers over 20,000 spectators to the beach over the weekend, many from out of the area. National and international exposure which the event regularly attracts has been valued at well over £1,000,000 in value to the town. Including CBS News America and a feature in Singapore Airlines inflight magazine. Broadcast quality footage is made available to press within hours of the event. The action is live streamed from the website, which gets 3500 visits each day of the event (40,000 visitors annually). Our facebook and twitter pages engaged with over 30,000 over Birdman 2014. Are You Interested? Please Contact: Jim Cunliffe 07711 948 990 Sponsorship and promotion lead on Worthing Birdman events team also Worthing community do-gooder and director of local print and web marketing company - Face Media Group Alternatively, you can talk to Sharon Clarke from Worthing Town Centre Initiative directly on 01903 203 252

Reminder - Application Deadline - 8th July

Coast to Capital Region Grants scheme for 2015/2016 has now been launched.

Through the Coast to Capital Growth Deal, Coast to Capital LEP, in partnership with West Sussex County Council, have now launched the Small Grants programme and the Business Growth Grants programme which are open to small and medium sized businesses looking to expand and create new jobs.

Coast to Capital Region Small Grants

Applications are now open and will remain open until 12pm on 8th July 2015.

Applications are welcome from start-ups, existing businesses and social enterprises from all sectors but the proposed new activity must be additional to existing business activity. Businesses must be able to incur the grant in full by 31st March 2016 and the grant may only be used for capital items.

Coast to Capital Region Business Growth Grants

Applications for Expressions of Interest are now open and will remain open until 12pm on 15th September 2015.

Applications are welcome from businesses that are in one of the Coast to Capital priority sectors listed below and/or able to demonstrate strong medium term growth plans. Retail is not an eligible sector.

• Advanced Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Environmental Technologies, Goods and Services
• Creative, Digital and IT
• Healthcare, Medical Technology and Life Sciences

Start-ups, existing businesses and social enterprises are invited to apply. Please note the proposed new activity must be additional to existing business activity.


Full details on the grants, application details and eligibility criteria are available at www.coast2capital.org.uk or through the Business Navigator team.

 

Bank of England has a message for Town Firms

The Bank of England's role has changed significantly

Tom Henderson, Deputy Agent for Greater London outlined the drivers for change, the changes in the Bank's responsibilities and powers, and their impact on the business community at a recent breakfast meeting, hosted by the Worthing and Adur Chamber of Commerce at the Ardington Hotel, attended by a select number of local business leaders.

Tom gave a brief introduction to the Bank and its two main policy bodies, the Monetary Policy Committee and the Financial Policy Committee. An explanation was given of the MPC’s role in inflation targeting and the FPC’s role in Macro prudential supervision and the distinction between Maco-Pru and Micro-Pru, or firm level supervision, which is the Prudential regulation Authorities role (the PRA are part of the Bank).  Tom touched on the international nature of banking regulation and on the Basel framework’s role in causing Banks to hold more capital and to better assess the risks in their lending. Tom emphasised the policy maker’s view, the well capitalised banks are now in a better position to lend.

Tom also explained that businesses saw credit conditions being quite different for firms of different sizes: big firms report very easy conditions with the banks, and all sorts of other lenders, very willing to fund them; but as firm size reduces conditions become tougher with the very smallest micro firms struggling to find funding.

There was a round table discussion of credit conditions. Tom questioned if there was some sort of natural selection process through the downturn – are those left those who had a bias against borrowing, or at least high levels of gearing? Most businesses agreed that this was happening.

An interesting discussion ensued and it became clear that established firms, with a decent trading history and who were owner occupiers, or had other significant collateral, found lending conditions easy but that even successful high growth younger firms found borrowing very difficult, and that this was not helped by the very slow and tortuous credit assessment process of the high street banks.

Come and join us free of charge for late lunch and our business networking event on Thursday 9th July from 2-4pm We are pleased to welcome Sonny Cutting as this month’s guest speaker. Sonny’s presentation ‘Communication is the KEY to Success and Failure’ is aimed to give businesses an insight into the art of affective advertising. In a world where consumers are saturated with brands, it is important to ensure that you’re communicating a message that will make an impact. Sonny Cutting is Managing Director of Sussex Pages - the Business Marketing Network. The company is a new style of Advertising agency which offers Digital, Creative and Social Media services across Sussex.   The Networking Hub is a free B2B networking event hosted by Basepoint in our business centres across the country. The events are open to all kinds of businesses and our aim is to give all those that attend the opportunity to meet new people, to build on existing business relationships and to generate new leads.   The Networking Hub format is largely informal, with a brief talk from a local guest speaker.   Spaces at this event are limited. To reserve your place please call Roxanne or Sue on 01273 467500 or email shoreham@basepoint.co.uk. We look forward to welcoming you to Basepoint Business Centre, Little High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, BN43 5EG. Click here for directions Basepoint Shoreham respects your privacy. You have received this email because you have been in contact with us before, or because you have registered an interest in receiving this kind of information. If you feel you have received it in error, or do not wish to receive further emails, simply choose the unsubscribe link below. You will automatically be removed from this list.   Powered by greenmessage - the environmental communication specialists If you do not wish to receive further communication, please click here to unsubscribe

 

The deadline for the second round of applications for Worthing Youth Council's Seafront Improvement Grants has been extended, but all artists, creatives, individuals and groups who are thinking of applying still do not have too long.  Final designs must be submitted by 4.00pm on Friday 10th July 2015.

Funded by Worthing Borough Council, this scheme is looking for creative ideas which celebrate Worthing seafront promenade and inspire both visitors and residents.

For example, we are looking for original and vibrant designs for:
•    commemorative plaques
•    art installations
•    planters
•    sensory trails or maps

From Splash Point in the east through to the Lido in the west and including Worthing Pier, Seafront Grants are available for local groups and individual artists in the Worthing Community, with winning designs being awarded up to £2,000 per application.

A small panel comprising of Worthing Youth Council, Worthing Council Leader Councillor Daniel Humphreys and Worthing Journal journalist Paul Holden will decide which applications will receive a grant.

Cllr Daniel Humphreys, Leader Worthing Borough Council adds "I am constantly impressed by the creativity of the residents of Worthing.  So I am really looking forward to meeting up with the Worthing Youth Council and Paul Holden to judge these entries later in the month and seeing the winning entries in place this summer.  Worthing is in the midst of ambitious regeneration plans and this Seafront Improvement Grant, encouraging cultural and artistic regeneration also, is at the very heart of those ambitions."

Closing date: Friday, 10th July 2015.  To submit an entry please visit the Adur and Worthing website www.adur-worthing.gov.uk/seafront-grants for full details or email Wendy Francis wendy.francis@adur-worthing.gov.uk.  

Broadwater and East Worthing: Parking Review and CPZ Amendment

Consultation period: 18/06/2015 - 09/07/2015

Further to previous communications on parking issues in parts of Broadwater and East Worthing, please refer to the link below which should be self explanatory. All representations received over the next three weeks will be reported to County Councillors later this year and a decision made on whether to proceed.

Site notices have been erected in Broadwater today and East Worthing will follow tomorrow. Hard copies of the plans are available to view in Worthing Library and in Portland House in Richmond Road.

Yours Sincerely

Miles Davy

https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/roads-and-travel/traffic-regulation-orders/live-consultations-for-traffic-regulation-orders/worthing-live-tro-consultations/

Sussex Transport & Rabbit Waste Management successfully worked with the recent Wildlife Festival at Shoreham Airport

Sussex Transport commented We were delighted to have been given the opportunity to work with the contractors on site for the inaugural WILDLIFE festival based at Brighton City Airport in Shoreham last weekend. ( June 6^th & 7^th)

The festival saw around 35,000 visitors to the site each day of the weekend – many of whom came from all over the UK to watch such acts as Rudimental, Disclosure and George Ezra perform.

It has been reported that the weekend was a resounding success and provided a huge boost for the local economy as the two day festival meant  many of the 35,000 visitors were booking into hotels and using local business for food and drink etc  – it really put Shoreham (and surrounding) on the map!  

With only 15 arrests reported over the entire weekend and only 18 public complaints logged on Saturday evening – and no traffic issues whatsoever – infact some locals commented that the event caused less disruption to the town than the annual Shoreham Airshow – it would seem that the WILDLIFE festival was a resounding success. And plans for 2016 event are already being talked about...

 

Rabbit Waste Management  commented "The work we did on the festival site – moving containers with one of our crane mounted HIAB lorries went without a hitch and we would be happy to help again next year. Rabbit Waste Management have been involved in the waste service planning for the Wildlife Music Festival for some weeks, this meant that when the event took place, the planning paid off.
Rabbit worked primarily with the event cleaning company by supplying bulk containers, skips and dustcart services both during and after the event, with all of the waste collected coming back to our Lancing facility for recycling or energy recovery – making the music festival an almost zero-to-landfill event.
It was a great and well organised event and we look forward to working with Wildlife Music Festival again next year”

Adur & Worthing Council to discuss key Regeneration tender plans for Worthing Town Centre

On Tuesday 9th June 2015 Adur and Worthing Council announced that Mosaic Global Investments Limited are the new owners and developers of the Teville Gate site in Worthing.  This exciting announcement marks another major step in our many ambitious regeneration plans for Worthing.

Daniel Humphreys, Leader Worthing Council adds "I am delighted to formally welcome Mosaic Global Investments Limited  as the new owners and developers of Teville Gate.  Their professionalism and vision for this major develpment in the heart of Worthing is very exciting.  Their commitment to creating jobs for our local residents is to be applauded and Adur & Worthing look forward to continuing to work with them on this project, which is key to our major regeration plans for Worthing."

Worthing Council has been working with senior colleagues at West Sussex County Council to secure future investment that will support our economic growth ambitions. Over the next five years, West Sussex County Council and Worthing Borough Council are committed to driving significant public and private investment into Worthing, to fund significant town centre, seafront, transport, commercial and residential development.  

The County Council are making significant contributions to the project management of our key regeneration and infrastructure projects and are pump-priming investment to develop a new Worthing Town Centre Investment Prospectus. 

This prospectus will promote Worthing as a significant opportunity for investment from the private sector, in addition to other public sector sources, to help transform our long term ambitions into shorter-term delivery and implementation options.

The invitation to tender will be issued later this month with a proposed completion of prospectus by late September / October 2015.  

The prospectus will inform Investors that Worthing is an up and coming place where investors can get a low-risk, commercial return on their investment. It will be:

·  Encouraging investment in our seafront and realising its greater potential

·  A rethink and reshape of the high-street and retail quarter including its layout and personality for today’s modern cities

·  Looking at improvements and better links to rail stations

·  Reviewing ideas for pedestrianisation, cycle routes and innovative intra-town transport

·  Reviewing our car parking provision to serve a modern town centre

·  Looking at areas for new residential neighbourhoods;

·  Looking to develop well designed public realm and open spaces

·  Provide ultra-fast broadband connectivity and town-wide WiFi

·  Offering a unique and world-class cultural offer with creative open space and event areas

·  Reviewing further options for a co-located or franchised higher education campus

·  Offering mixed use office and employment spaces which would attract high growth entrepreneurs and wealth creators

·  Providing ideas for creative/mixed use spaces for social entrepreneurs and community groups

·  Encouraging ideas and investment in cutting-edge water-sport facilities. 

The Prospectus will be undertaken with a comprehensive business and stakeholder consultation and engagement programme which will be guided by the Head of Place & Investment at the Council.