As a Stoke-on-Trent City Centre Business Improvement District (BID) board member I am particularly excited to welcome to our city centre this brand new, family-friendly, and free festival celebrating our wonderful world, and which seeks to ask and address those questions about how we can all start making sustainable choices today for a better world

Having already had one false start last month I am delighted to be able to invite you to The Chambers Summer Open Day on Friday 30th July from 1pm to 4pm. The Chambers team are all getting excited about inviting you all back to Commerce House, whether you are attending an event, training course, processing

The Staffordshire Chambers Business Awards are a high point of our year. They are all about celebrating success and achievements. After the last year, it might seem that it will be trickier to find outstanding businesses – but not so! It has been another extraordinary year in which Staffordshire businesses, charities and education providers –

By Rob Lawley, head of International Trade at Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce The Chambers’ Rural Business Forum is one of 10 specialist interest forums and it exists to promote the interests of the rural business sector in Staffordshire. Rural business includes agriculture, forestry & fishing, rural tourism & leisure, agri-tech as well as any other business

If you are looking for a great way to share experiences and meet like-minded business colleagues, then our Peer Networks programme could be for you.   It is part of a national scheme, delivered locally by the Chambers in partnership with the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)and Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Growth Hub. The

A select small group of business owners from across Staffordshire had a special treat when they were invited to an audience with former Olympic ski-jumper, Michael ‘Eddie the Eagle’ Edwards. Edwards shot to fame in 1988 at the Calgary Winter Olympics, where he represented Great Britain in the 70M and 90m events, becoming the first

At the Chambers’ Council meeting earlier this week we had a short presentation from Louisa Grocott, place brand manager at Staffordshire County Council. Staffordshire County Council have created a new ‘place brand’ for the county, in other words a tool to help promote Staffordshire and attract business, talent, visitors and students. It is the story

Cash is king – how businesses can take control of their outgoings The impacts of the pandemic will be felt well into the future but for now, businesses are taking their first steps in gradually reopening. Coffee shops and cafes are welcoming customers inside, hairdressers and beauty salons are switching on the lights and workers

The impacts of the pandemic will be felt well into the future but for now, businesses are taking their first steps in gradually reopening.  Coffee shops and cafes are welcoming customers inside, hairdressers and beauty salons are switching on their lights and workers are starting to return to the office. Despite these first steps, trading

It is Armed Forces Week next week, an opportunity to celebrate our armed forces, military personnel, and the role they play protecting the UK both at home and overseas. During the past year military personnel from the British Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy have been a key part of the UK’s COVID-19 response