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New Business Winner: Green Fish Recruitment Highly Commended: La Belle Beauty Boutique   Microbusiness Winner: Natural Landscapes Highly Commended: Osprey PR Highly Commended:Jellybean Marketing   Small Business Winner: JSPC Computer Services Highly Commended: 24x Highly Commended: Ghodsi Barbers Medium to Large Business  Winner: Shoreham Port Highly Commended: Ricardo Charity Not for Profit  Winner: Worthing Town Football Club Highly Commended: Camelia Botnar Marketing & Promotion  Winner: Spofforths Highly Commended: Worthing Leisure Services Business in the Community Winner: Bennett Griffin Highly Commended: Barclays Highly Commended: Spofforths Education & Training Winner: Northbrook College Highly Commended: Reflections Nursery

Retailer of the Year Winner: The Wool Bar Highly Commended: The Gallery Highly Commended: GH Pressley Restaurant: Winner: The Old Tollgate Hotel & Restaurant Highly Commended: Chilcha Tourism & Leisure Winner: M's Cycles Highly Commended: The Moorings Highly Commended: Coombes Farm  Highly Commended: The Dome Cinema Green Business: Winner: Worthing Leisure Services Highly Commended: Rabbit Group Manufacturer of the Year Winner: Electronic Temperature Instruments Highly Commended: Parafix Highly Commended: Penton UK Customer Care Winner: Elm Grove Newsagents Highly Commended: Emerald Finance Highly Commended: The Wool Bar Business of the Year Winner: Electronic Temperature Instruments Business Person Winner: James Stoner JSPC Computer Services Lifetime Achievement in Business Peter Saywell

Volunteer Mentors Wanted

New Enterprise Allowance scheme has been created to help people who have previously been claiming Job Seekers Allowance, to start up in business with the help of business mentoring.

 

Chamber members, The Let's Do Business Group has been awarded a contract to manage the Mentoring Scheme in Surrey and Sussex, along with the Loan funds in the South.  Worthing and Adur Chamber of Commerce is helping to recruit a team of experienced business people to act as mentors.

The volunteer mentors will have suitable business experience, and also the usual "soft skills" - the mentoring commitment is likely to be - 

•  6 hours for the initial 8 weeks to completion of the business plan
•  1 hour per month for 26 weeks following start-up of the business
•  The mentoring is on a volunteer basis
•  The meetings will take place on the mentor's premises or other suitable public  place

Mentor Role Description 

• To provide encouragement and promote confidence and self esteem with the client regarding their own capabilities in relation to business start-up
• To have an understanding of the barriers clients may face when looking to start a business
• To work with the customer to produce a business plan which demonstrates viability and sustainability
• To discuss with the Lets Do Business Group (LDBG) Project Manager any referral/signposting you consider would be beneficial to the client
• To provide support, advice and signposting to enhance the clients' knowledge of business start-up
• To use a mentoring pace and style appropriate to the client
• To advise the LDBG Project Manager of any concerns regarding the clients' ability to produce a business plan within an 8 week period
• To provide continuing support for 6 months following start up to assist the business growth
• The mentor is not expected or encouraged to invest in the client business

 

For more information, please contact:

Kaye.crittell@ldbgroup.co.uk 

Worthing and Adur Chamber on 01273 203484
    tina.tilley@worthingandadurchamber.co.uk   

Get your staff active with the Small Grants Scheme


(Sussex Businesses only)
Open for applications on the 5th September 2011

Active Solutions manages the Active & Healthy Workplace Initiative on behalf of Active Sussex.  This year Active Sussex has teamed up with Brighton & Hove’s Healthy City Partnership to offer companies and organisations in Sussex the chance to bid for up to £500 to activate their staff.

Active Sussex is pleased to announce that its Active & Healthy Workplace fund is re-opening for applications.

The fund gives businesses and organisations throughout Sussex the opportunity to trial programmes that boost the health and wellbeing of their staff.  With a maximum of £500 per organisation up for grabs to help run a scheme, there’s never been a better time to get active and healthy at work. The fund opens for applications on Monday 5 September 2011.

Click here for more information or contact Donna Imrie- Browne Donna@active-solutions.co.uk to request an application form.

Please read the guidance notes fully below before completing the application form. If you have any questions please contact Donna Imrie-Browne.

The deadline for applications is Friday 30 September 2011.

Your copy of the July 2011 Tourism Newsletter, produced for the local Tourism Industry by the Tourism Department at Adur and Worthing Councils is available to download here

Just some of the highlights in this issue…………
 

• Brand new Visitor Information Centre open at the Dome
• New Worthing Pocket Guide out now
• New Monoliths installed in Worthing town centre
• Event Feature – the Worthing International Birdman
• Countdown to 2012
• Summer e-mailer newsletter results
• And lots more…….

Also available for download here is the August Events poster.

 

Earlier this year a new business partnership was formed, bringing together the Adur Economic Partnership and the Worthing Economic Development and Regeneration Partnership. The Adur and Worthing Business Partnership brings together key businesses, colleges and groups such as the Worthing and Adur Chamber of Commerce and the Federation of Small Businesses.

In its first year this partnership is being led by Andrew Swayne of Ricardo, with the next Partnership meeting being charged with establishing its delivery plan for the coming year. This partnership will provide key support for business and education and play an important role in achieving the objectives set out in the Sustainable Community Strategy – Waves Ahead.

Economic Development has recently sent out a business questionnaire to all business addresses in Adur. This questionnaire is an opportunity for your company to inform the Council of the key issues currently affecting your business. 

Over the last few years the Council has consulted Worthing businesses to identify their issues, and we now would like to do the same work in Adur. The information provided will help build a picture of business issues across the area and will be incorporated into a joint action plan for Adur and Worthing.

This is an opportunity to have your say and we would be grateful if you could please take the time to complete the questionnaire and return it in the pre-paid envelope provided, by the 22nd April 2011.  The questionnaire is also available to download on our website at www.adur.gov.uk/business, or paper copies are available from Adur Civic Centre reception in Ham Road, Shoreham.

If you require further information regarding the questionnaire, please contact the Economic Development on 01273 263147 or email econdev@adur.gov.uk.

The latest newsletter from sustainablegov.co.uk is available for download here