Business people are being given the opportunity to question the city’s top leaders at events hosted by Exeter Chamber of Commerce, the city’s leading business organisation.
On Friday 6th July Exeter MP, Ben Bradshaw, will brief Chamber members on the latest decisions from Westminster which will impact their businesses and take part in a question and answer session.
Mr Bradshaw said: “I am pleased to be able to address the business community through the Chamber of Commerce – the event is another route by which I can hear from constituents and ensure that I am representing...
Exeter City Council Chief Exec and Growth Director, Karime Hassan has recognised Exeter Chamber of Commerce as crucial to Exeter’s success at a recent networking event to start the celebrations of the Chamber’s 150th anniversary year.
At the event Mr Hassan noted, how key individuals including vice president of the Chamber, Derek Phillips, had played an important, long term, role in the continued success of the city’s economy, including strategic developments outside the city.
Karime Hassan said: “Together Exeter City Council and Exeter Chamber share a united public/private...
Over 100 Exeter Chamber members attended a special networking lunch recently which included a dedicated election question time, giving members a chance to meet Exeter’s parliamentary candidates.
Members had their business-related questions answered by Ben Bradshaw from the Labour party, Vanessa Newcombe from Liberal Democrats, James Tadgdissian from Conservative Party and Jonathan West an Independent candidate.
Questions and discussion topics involved arts and culture, health and social care, airport taxes, air pollution and the promotion of electric/sustainable travel in...
Exeter Chamber of Commerce raised a total of £1675 for 11 local charities at this year’s Christmas charity auction lunch. Held at the Mercure Southgate Hotel, the event attracted over 100 Exeter business people giving them the opportunity for some festive networking and to bid for some fantastic prizes. The auctioneer for the charitable event was Ben Clark, Breakfast presenter on Radio Exe.
Items for auction included vouchers for Exeter Cookery School, a set of hand-made prints from Double Elephant, an Exeter Chiefs shirt signed by the team, a round of golf at Woodbury Park and the...
Devon Chamber of Commerce has launched its #EUandMe Working Together campaign to combat the spreading climate of fear across the county.
Leading the campaign through the sharing of positive messages on social media and through its communication channels the Chamber aims to highlight the positive contribution that partnership working with EU workers and businesses has on the local economy.
The campaign aims to demonstrate that whilst the political decision making on the process for Brexit continues, for businesses in Devon, and across the UK it's business as usual, alongside...
Devon Chamber of Commerce is today supporting British Chambers of Commerce’s call to the government to embark on a wholesale simplification of business tax to eliminate the loopholes that give rise to tax avoidance schemes.
Most businesses see large-scale tax avoidance by major corporates, and particularly large multinationals, as unfair competition. In order to limit the scale of this, the BCC is calling for immediate action on three fronts:
A wholesale simplification of business tax to eliminate the loopholes that give rise to tax avoidance schemes
Ahead of the Chancellor’s Spending Review and Autumn Statement announcement on Wednesday 25 November, Plymouth & Devon Chamber of Commerce, as part of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) network, is urging the government to fix the deep-rooted structural issues facing the UK economy.
While the UK economy continues to grow at a good pace, the slightly weaker numbers recorded in the BCC’s latest Quarterly Economic Survey, combined with major uncertainties over China and a continued weakness of the eurozone, are a stark reminder that the UK’s economy remains in need of care and...
Over 90 business leaders from across the city attended the July Chamber lunch with guest speaker, Ben Bradshaw.
The event that was held at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum saw Ben give delegates an update on his Deputy Leader campaign as well as covering topical subjects such as better broadband for Exeter, city wide congestion and renewable energy.
The next Chamber lunch will take place in the Guildhall in Exeter on the 19th August. Last year, the end of summer lunch saw over 80 delegates meet for a networking focused lunch with catering from Exeter based business, Posh...
Over 70 musicians from Exeter School will be performing at St. Peter’s Church, Budleigh on Thursday 2 July at 7.30pm, with a feast of choral and instrumental music. This Concert will include Chamber Orchestra performing the Holst St Paul's Suite and the famous first movement from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
As well as featuring the school’s 6th form leavers, the programme will include their experienced string and saxophone quartets, the new Cello Quartet, as well as the jazz/funk band Swunk. Vocal items will be from the terrific Chamber Choir and Vocal Ensemble, as well as the...
Wayne Hemingway MBE, co-founder of fashion business, Red or Dead, and affordable and social design agency HemingwayDesign has been announced as the keynote speaker at Plymouth Chamber of Commerce’s upcoming Annual Business Dinner.
Taking place on 15th May at St Mellion International Resort, Plymouth Chamber’s Annual Business Dinner will bring together business leaders from across Plymouth and the South West region for an evening of black tie networking, including a three course dinner and a motivational key note speech from Mr Hemingway, a well-known and well respected name in the...
