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Karuta Sportswear Shares Lockdown Experience

9 November 2021 Karuta Sportswear Shares Their Lockdown Experience. Chamber member, Karuta Sportwear won New Business of The Year in our Awards ceremony 2020. And a month after being awarded the

Black History Month

22 October 2021 Black History Month A little late to the party, but we wanted to share that October is Black History Month and there are some events being held over the next couple of weeks. Visit Black History Month’s ‘PROUD TO BE‘

Our Environment And Sustainability Project Panel

20 October 2021 Our Environment and Sustainability Project Panel Debbie Apted has been our secretary for over 7 years and has now stood down from the position - but not the committee - to be our project panel lead on environment and sustainability. This keeps her very busy! Here's how Debbie first got involved, and what she has planned:

Curry And Conversation

6th October 2021 Curry and Conversation - 1st Workshop of 6 - Monday 8th November Curry & Conversation workshops are being held in Weston-super-Mare in partnership with the Weston Chamber of Commerce. There will be 6 workshops in total, all of which can be found on our Events Page.&

Blakehay Theatre Shares Their Story

22 September 2021 Blakehay Theatre Shares Their Covid Impact Story The Blakehay Theatre won our Best Evening Out Award in 2020, which was sponsored by Vanguard Surveillance and Security. Here’s what Sally Heath, Theatre Manager has to say about the p

Weston College Lockdown Impact

8 September 2021 Weston College After Lockdown Last year, Weston College won Best Use of Technology Award 2020 which was sponsored by Bristol Airport. We heard from

OTHO Ltd Wins Another Award

25 August 2021 OTHO Ltd Wins Another Award OTHO Ltd, a consultancy and training company based at The Hive in Weston-super-Mare, has won an award for its work during the coronavirus pandemic producing regular briefing notes which consolidate the latest government

Lockdown Impact On The Grand Pier

17 August 2021 Lockdown’s Impact On The Grand Pier Over the coming weeks, we thought it would be interesting to hear from last year’s award winners after such a prevalent time for all businesses. Our Awards event took place on Friday

Meet The Team Our President

4 August 2021 Meet The Team - Our President This month we're introducing our president, who is always working hard in the background for the Chamber. Sue Shillabeer is a business owner who star

Weston Residence Glimpse The Future

23 July 2021 Weston Residents Get A Glimpse Of The Future Last weekend (16th – 18th July) Weston College and the West of England Institute of Technology (WEIoT) held the ‘Future Tech Weston’ event, in partnership with Weston Town

Only Zero Waste Store In Weston

21 July 2021 Weston’s Only Zero Waste Store Gets A Mention By Theo Paphitis Sustainability has never been more important for a business. One member of the Chamber has made sustainability her business. In the heart of Weston-super-Mare, you will fi

Meet The Team Our Treasurer

7 July 2021 Meet The Team – Our Treasurer We thought it would be nice to introduce our committee members over the coming weeks, and thought it best to start with our recent change as John Coombe has finally retired as our Treasurer.

Fancy A Free Drink And A Chat

17 June 2021 Fancy a free drink and a chat? Next Themes Marketing Manager Ade Bowen is buying us all a drink.

NatWest Business Builder Pivoting Your Business Model

27 May 2021 Business Builder Event - Pivoting Your Business Model NatWest are working with the Weston-super-Mare Chamber to help local businesses scale up and succeed. They will run four events, starting the 16th June, and this is the last one in the series

Natwest Business Builder Managing Unexpected Growth

19th May 2021 NatWest Business Builder - Managing Unexpected Growth NatWest are working with the Weston-S-Mare Chamber to help local businesses scale up and succeed. Business Builder events are designed to support and challenge users to develop the right foundations for their business; whether that’s how to write a great pitch, how to define their

NatWest Business Builder Responding To Change

11 May 2021 Business Builder Event: Responding To Change NatWest is working with the Weston-S-Mare Chamber to help local businesses scale up and succeed. Business Builder events are designed to support and challenge users to develop the r

Walker & Ling New Shop Front

4 May 2021 Walker & Ling's New Shop Front Unveiled Recently we saw the unveiling of Walker and Ling's new shop front - perfect timing with non-essential shops being allowed to reopen on the 12th April 2021. For 11 weeks this spring, they have been reinstating the post-war architecture of Walker

Natwest Business Builder Events

20 April 2021 NatWest Business Builder Events Working with the Weston-S-Mare Chamber to help local businesses scale up and succeed, NatWest are running business builder workshops. Business Builder events are designed to support and challenge users to develop the right foundations for their business; whether

Weston Working To Become Accredited As A Fairtrade Town

11 April 21 Weston-super-Mare working to become accredited as a Fairtrade Town Weston-super-Mare Chamber of Comm

Business Sustainability

5 April 2021 Business Sustainability Nowadays, sustainability in your business could mean the difference between winning a contract or not. A sustainable business will want to do business with those that are making the effort to be sustainable, too. They have to look at their supply chain etc. and will make dec

Web Designer Of The Year Award

10 March 2021 Weston small business wins Web Designer of the Year Award Weston based web designer, Next Theme are celebrating winning because they have won the Prestige Web Designer Specialist of the Year Award. Owner, Joe Bambridge recently changed

Remote Working Staying Connected Workshop

2nd March 2021 Sue’s got her sights on guiding people. Local entrepreneur, Sue Green took time out from work to fulfil two of her passions – trave

Action Pussycat Keeps Workers Connected

February 2021 Local entertainer, Action Pussycat has developed an office party package to help home workers keep connected and prevent them feeling isolated. Looking after our metal health is very impor

We Are Making Some Changes

February 2021 Welcome to the first blog post! I know I communicated this in the newsletter that went out, but

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