Connect with the business community
Connect your employees with customers, contacts and suppliers
Your business may have grown recently, making it difficult to keep track of various important factors within the day-to-day running of your organisation. Through getting in touch with the Chamber of Commerce, we can provide useful support and assistance with such struggles and time constraints.
Ensure future sustainability for your business with our local skills improvement plans, training your staff to be competent in the workplace and keeping them up to date with all of the latest Health & Safety, legal, HR and tax issues. The Chamber also provides support for implementing Healthcare benefits to maintain a happy workforce.
If you’re looking at expansion in the near future, we offer a range of Business Finance options too, where you can seek funding for help with this. For overseas trading, we also have our Chamber International subsidiary, who can share their reliable knowledge of setting up foreign exports and imports – as well as the legalities and complexities of doing this.
Take a look at the extensive list of support services provided by the West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce. The driving success behind our company is helping to nurture business growth within yours.
THREE USEFUL RESOURCES FOR MEDIUM BUSINESSES:
- Health & Safety, HR, legal and tax advice – the Chamber can assist with such issues and keep your staff up to date with the latest terms and conditions relating to these topics.
- Skills Development Training – establishing a skilled workforce can be the driving success behind your company’s growth. Improve motivation and productivity by setting up a planned skills training programme.
- Healthcare Benefits – raise morale within your workplace by constructing an employee healthcare benefits initiative.
Medium Business benefits of membership
As an established enterprise, you might want to engage with the business community and develop your employee’s network
Representation
With so many challenges facing business owners, finding your voice and having it heard can seem a real challenge. With so many different agencies, authorities, groups and organisations involved in the local economy, it can be impossible to know who to talk to.
Representing your business is what your Chamber membership is all about. Our representation team meets with local, regional and national policy bodies to discuss investment, skill, infrastructure. We are the voice of your business and promote the business community and economy of the region.
Marketing and Networking Events
Want to connect with the business network? Chamber networking events are a fantastic way to grow your network and make those all-important business connections. You can deliver your elevator pitch, listen to what others have to offer and discuss and share knowledge, challenges, and best practices.
Make your teams more productive
Keep your teams up to date and compliant with the latest changes in regulations The Legal, HR, Tax and Health and Safety Advice Lines with Document Libraries are constantly updated to reflect current government policy. The advice lines are there to compliment your teams and answer any specific questions.
Social Impact for Business
Raising the Bar is a social impact for business initiative which aims to help businesses of all sizes to achieve their social impact aims. Our Chamber connections help us to pair businesses who are looking to go above and beyond, with charities or not-for-profits who need their help – whether that be through volunteering, donations or fundraising.
- Benchmarking tool to measure your social impact
- Opportunities to offer your help to good causes
- Showcase your social impact and publish your stories
- Celebrate with the annual Raising the Bar Awards