Chamber Marketing

Record number of regional businesses enter social impact awards

By Chamber Marketing / 15 October 2019
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Businesses around the region have broken the record of entry submissions for the West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce’s social impact awards, Raising the Bar. Judging has now taken…

Queen’s Speech: British Chambers’ reaction

By Chamber Marketing / 14 October 2019
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BCC comments on the Queen’s Speech Commenting on the Queen’s Speech opening a new session of Parliament, Dr Adam Marshall, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce said: “Our…

The latest edition of the Quarterly Economic Report is now live

By Chamber Marketing / 11 October 2019
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The Chamber’s Quarterly Economic Survey monitors economic trends and takes the business temperature, accurately and comprehensively, in a range of areas relevant to our members across West & North Yorkshire.…

Manufacturing apprenticeships the routes to top jobs, students told at skills event

By Chamber Marketing / 7 October 2019
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More than 1,000 Leeds students from 40 schools joined online with an audience of young people at specialist engineering and manufacturing college UTC Leeds last week to receive first-hand advice…

Live event will address region’s engineering and manufacturing skills shortage

By Chamber Marketing / 3 October 2019
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Manufacturing employers and young people from across Leeds will come together at a live event this week to address the chronic skills shortage facing the manufacturing sector. Leeds Manufacturing Festival…

Bradford Manufacturing Week announces official launch of this year’s initiative

By Chamber Marketing / 3 October 2019
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Local manufacturers and schools are coming together once again for this year’s Bradford Manufacturing Weeks which is bringing 4,200 manufacturing experiences for students at over 60% of the district’s secondary…

Bradford Chamber Annual Dinner – Speaker Announced

By Chamber Marketing / 25 September 2019
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Businesses in the region are being encouraged to book tickets for one of the key events in the annual calendar. The Bradford Chamber of Commerce dinner takes place on Thursday…

Brexit ‘no deal’ guidance still lacking detail, says BCC

By Chamber Marketing / 20 September 2019
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The British Chambers of Commerce has published an evaluation of government guidance to businesses on critical operational issues in the event of an unwanted ‘no deal’ exit on 31 October.   BCC has found…

Tim steps up at Leeds Chamber Property Forum

By Chamber Marketing / 18 September 2019
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Leeds Chamber Property Forum has welcomed the appointment of Tim Waring, director at national planning and property consultancy Quod, as its new chair. Leeds Chamber’s Property Forum is a special…

BCC: Growth Expectations Downgraded

By Chamber Marketing / 16 September 2019
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The British Chambers of Commerce has today (Monday 16/09/19) released its latest economic forecast, downgrading growth expectations for the UK in 2019 to 1.2% (from 1.3%) and to 0.8% (from…

Leeds looks ahead to Manufacturing Festival highlights

By Chamber Marketing / 16 September 2019
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Leeds Manufacturing Festival, set up to showcase the range of careers on offer across Leeds’ diverse manufacturing sector, moves up a gear from the beginning of October with a series…

Transport investment in the North: The Business Case

By Chamber Marketing / 13 September 2019
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On the back of today’s (Friday 13 Sep 2019) Convention of the North conference, the presence there of the Prime Minister and the uncertainty surrounding transport investment in the North,…

Chamber tells Boris: “We won’t stand for second best!”

By Chamber Marketing / 13 September 2019
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Boris Johnson, on his visit to Yorkshire for the Convention of the North conference in Rotherham, has been warned by West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce that the region will…

Business Toolkit launched by Chamber president

By Chamber Marketing / 4 September 2019
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We have launched an online toolkit to support micro to medium sized businesses with the complexity of day-to-day management and growth. Inspired by the pledge of new president Suzanne Watson…

Economic Survey underway – please complete it

By Chamber Marketing / 29 August 2019
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Fieldwork is underway for the Chamber’s latest Quarterly Economic Survey.  It would help us greatly if businesses can take a few minutes (we promise that it can be done in 2-3 minutes) to complete…

Resurfacing of M62 J26-J27

By Chamber Marketing / 23 August 2019
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A-one+, working on behalf of Highways England in Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, have planned resurfacing work beginning shortly. The work will take place close to the M62 eastbound and westbound…

Success for BCC campaign to simplify trade procedures as Government acts to issue EORI numbers

By Chamber Marketing / 21 August 2019
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Commenting on the announcement that the government will act on the BCC’s call to automatically issue businesses with an EORI number, Dr Adam Marshall, Director General, of the British Chambers…

Call for employment sites in Bradford

By Chamber Marketing / 6 August 2019
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Bradford Council is asking landowners to propose sites that may be suitable for future employment development and assist in the delivery of over 27,000 jobs. Draft Policy EC1 of the…