Grow your business
Tools to help you expand your business
Support to help develop and manage your growing business.
- HR Advice Line and Document Library
- Promotion and marketing services
- Networking events
Includes Chamber Legal Advice Line and money saving services
Small Business benefits of membership
Growing your business has many challenges, from finding new customers to recruiting staff – so let the Chamber help
HR Advice Line
Members have unlimited access to the HR Advice Line, available 365 days a year. The lines are manned by very experienced advisors who can answer any questions you may have or help resolve issues. These are the kind of subjects the advisors can help you with:
- Employment law
- Guidance on access to web docs
- Staff grievances and disputes
- Disciplinary issues
- Absenteeism
- Disability issues
- Medical capability
- Equal pay
- Maternity / paternity allowances
- Shared parental leave
- Contracts of employment
- TUPE issues
- Eligibility to work
- Managing apprentices
- Calculating settlement agreements
- Redundancy
- Calculating holiday pay / sick pay
- Maternity leave
- National living wage
HR Document Library
One of the main features of the HR Advice website is the comprehensive document library, which has free downloadable template documents.
- Recruitment & selection
- Induction & probation
- Contracts of employment
- Employee handbook
- Performance management
- Training & development
- Employee reward & benefits
- Grievance, mediation & discipline
- Attendance management
- Exit management
- The Good Work Plan
- Furlough
- HR adminstration
Free One2One Review
We can offer you a complimentary One2One Review with a Quest Business Manager. They will take the time to understand the challenges you face, assess your compliance status and suggest solutions on how you can protect your business in these uncertain times.
Health & Safety Advice
A free and confidential advice line to discuss health and safety issues and your obligations as an employer.
- Health and Safety issues covered include:
- Start-up requirements
- Protective equipment
- Training
- Gap analysis
- Compliance issues
- Completing risk assessments
- Health & safety policies & documents
- Fire safety
- Accident reporting
- First aid requirements
- Hazardous substances
- Employee safety handbook
Health and Safety document library
One of the main features of the Health and Safety website is the comprehensive document library, which has free downloadable template documents covering the full range of health & safety matters.
- Getting started in H&S
- Developing a H&S policy
- First aid & RIDDOR
- Risk assessments & audits
- Fire safety
- Manual handling & lifting
- Working at heights
- Workplace equipment and vehicles
- The working environment Vulnerable groups
- Food safety
- Physical & psychological hazards
- Construction & CDM regulations
- Chemical substance & biological hazards
Marketing and Promotion
Getting your business out there can seem daunting for a small business, but the Chamber showcase the success of businesses of all sizes. Marketing and promotion are included with your Chamber membership.
Publish articles on our popular member’s news website, yorkshire-business.com, and have them shared across our social media channels. Member’s news articles are selected for inclusion in the quarterly ‘West & North Yorkshire Business’ magazine.
Offer discounts to other members and promote these in the members section on our website