Business Direction #03 Sample

Direction

Business

Health and wellbeing Taking the healthy approach to business success - page 24

Chamber Business Awards 2011 Find out this years winners - page 16

ÂŁ2.00 where sold

Business Direction published by Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce BD03.indd 1

September/October 2011 Issue 3 26/8/11 10:18:10

Looking to hire and want to reduce the recruitment bill?

How does ÂŁ395 per vacancy sound?

Visit our website or call us to find out more.

easyvacancy.co.uk Fixed-fee Online Vacancy Advertising

0845 4744 123 Terms and conditions apply.

Prices quoted VAT. Visit website for details.

Terms & conditions apply. Price quoted excludes VAT, visit website for exclude details.apply.

Terms & conditions Price quoted excludes VAT, visit website for details.

BD03.indd 2

26/8/11 11:59:30

Dir ect ion

Bus ine ss

Contents d wellbeing Health an h to thy approac Taking the heal - page 24 ess business succ

ess Awards 2011 16 Chamber Busin winners - page

£2.00 where

Find out this years

Business Direction

published by

Herefordshire

First word

38 Conference Worcestershire

4

Chamber news

39 Destination Worcestershire

5

Business news

40 Chamber events

sold

2011 September/October

ce

r of Commer

rshire Chambe

and Worceste

3

Issue 3

HWCHAMBER.CO.UK Business Direction, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce’s 60 page, full colour bi-monthly publication. Designed and produced by business people for business people. Distributed to 6,000 businesses including selected retail outlets and Tesco stores across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

EDITOR Kelly Betts 0845 641 1641 ext 213

kellyb@hwchamber.co.uk

EDITORIAL

11 Education

42 Commercial property

15 Member benefits and solutions

45 Business news

16 Chamber Business Awards 2011

47 Business news

19 Environment

49 Business news

21 Policy

50 International trade

23 Enterprise Zone

53 New members

24 Cover story: Health and Wellbeing

55 Business news

36 Training

58 Movers and shakers

17 24

First word

businessdirection@hwchamber.co.uk 0845 641 1641 ext 213

PRODUCTION & DESIGN Distinctive Publishing, 8th Floor, Aidan House, Sunderland Road, Gateshead NE8 3HU Tel: 0845 884 2385 www.distinctivepublishing.co.uk

ADVERTISING Distinctive Publishing, 8th Floor, Aidan House, Sunderland Road, Gateshead NE8 3HU Tel: 0845 884 2336 helen.gowland@distinctivepublishing.co.uk

FEATURE EDITORS John Dean & Francis Griss deangriss@btinternet.com

SUBSCRIPTIONS www.hwchamber.co.uk/businessdirection Tel: 0845 641 1641 Disclaimer: Whilst every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the publisher accepts no responsibility for omissions or errors within this publication. Editorial submissions are included at the discretion of the editor. The opinions expressed in articles and letters within this publication are not necessarily those of the Chamber. All offers, promotions and competitions appearing in Business Direction are the sole responsibility of the advertiser/ promoting party and Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce does not accept any responsibility for any representations made within them.

Welcome to September/October edition of Business Direction In July we celebrated the quality of the businesses in our two counties at our annual Chamber Business Awards at the Worcester Cathedral. The calibre of entries was as always of a high quality however, on the evening we declared 11 companies as category winners and one company was deemed overall Business of the Year. More about the winners can be found on page 16 and 17. The next stage in this process is that our companies go on to compete in the West Midlands Regional Awards which are announced during September and then the regional winners awards compete in the British Chambers of Commerce national Awards which are announced in November.

Well done in particular to H Weston & Sons Ltd who are our Business of the Year and in particular to Helen Thomas, who continues to oversee the development of a company which goes from strength to strength. It was particularly pleasing on the night to support the Prince’s Trust and once again the business community which contributed a significant amount to this worthy cause.

The business community in our two counties is showing nervous optimism and growth. We have seen that manufacturing companies and exporters are doing well and we are also seeing an improvement in construction.

We hope that this continues and I urge you to contact the Chamber Team if your company requires any support. The Chamber also continues to work closely with Local Enterprise Partnerships to ensure the business community is best served.

Finally, in this edition we are looking at Policy, Health and Wellbeing all of which are vital to productive businesses and the local business community.

Enjoy this edition and as always your feedback is welcomed. mikea@hwchamber.co.uk

We continue to remain in a busy period for events at the Chamber and have added a number of new events recently to the programme; two that I would particularly like to mention are the Manufacturing Forum (you can find out more on page 40) and the new Redditch Networking Breakfast, which we look forward to repeating.

Our Patrons are:

ils.

September/October 2011

BD03.indd 3

Business Direction published by Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce

03

26/8/11 13:06:23

Chamber News

Images from last years Expo

CHARITY ART AUCTION

WORCESTERSHIRE BUSINESS EXPO 2011 Thursday 6 October 2011 9.30am - 3.00pm Sixways Stadium, Warriors Way, Hindlip, Worcester, WR3 8ZE All businesses across the region are invited to meet, connect and network at the Worcestershire Business Expo. The event takes place on Thursday 6 October at the Sixways Stadium and offers an opportunity for all businesses, regardless of membership to the Chamber, to come and forge new partnerships, share knowledge and best practice, and soak up a stream of invaluable advice.

Agenda 8.30- 9.30am – Networking Breakfast - £17.50+VAT Members £35+VAT Non members 9.30am – Exhibition Opens 10.00am Seminar – International Trade, Going Global – Developing Overseas Markets Jim Clark, AMS Group Ltd & Linda Smith, UK Trade and Investment 10.30am Workshop - FindItInWorcestershire Find out how finditinworcestershire works, how you can benefit from local networking and how you can increase your business profile.

11.00am Key Note Speaker – ‘Life After Death’ – How to gain success from failure in business!

Peter Roper, Positive Ground 11.30am Workshop - Internet Marketing - Creating sales and sales leads through the web.

Iain Coplans, QuickWins Marketing 12 noon Seminar – 10 Things you should know before getting your business on the Web Ben Barnes, NinetyFive Creative 12.30 – 1.30pm – Networking Lunch - £25+VAT Members £45+VAT Non members- sponsored by e-response.

2.00pm Workshop - The health of your people is a barometer for the real health of your organisation.

Mark Hamilton Taylor, MHT Life

BOOK NOW! FREE SEMINARS AND EXHIBITION AREA Stand Hire £200+VAT Members, £300+VAT Non members Networking Breakfast 8.30 - 9.30am £17.50+VAT Members, £35+VAT Non members Networking Lunch 12.30 - 1.30pm - £25+VAT Members, £45+VAT Non members Booking essential, for more information visit www.hwchamber.co.uk/bizexpo or contact the Events Team on 0845 641 1641 or email events@hwchamber.co.uk

Sponsored by Nexus in partnership with Worcestershire County Council

The aim of the event is simple - to provide inspirational speakers, to network, collaborate, learn and promote businesses of all sizes.

04

BD03.indd 4

Jack Roughan has just completed his studies at New College Worcester. Jack is partially sighted and struggles to see objects in the distance, details and things very close up. He is also affected by bright lights but despite this has proved to be a very talented artist.

To raise awareness of the ability of visually impaired children and raise money (he is hoping at least £500) for New College Worcester, Jack has decided to auction a piece of his work entitled ‘Metal Insects’ in a Landscape. The work will be on display at the Crowther Beard stand at Worcestershire Business Expo at the Sixways Stadium on Thursday 6 October 2011.

Bids are to be made to Anne Priestly at New College, John Painter at Crowther Beard, or Sarah Davies at Worcester News and will be opened at the Expo at 2pm.

Jack’s art talent was not the only thing that was discovered whilst he was at New College Worcester, a PE teacher noticed his athleticism and potential and he now represents GB at a number of national and international events in the classification of T12 (VI category).

For more information on the auction please contact John Painter at jhp@crowtherbeard.com or on 01905 454854.

September/October 2011

26/8/11 10:18:35

g n i t i u r c e R ge 24

f life - pa

ll o people fu The future

Business

of radio -

page 22

blished rection pu

Di

arketing

ur m Getting yo

Innova tion The key busine in the search s fo ere sold

ÂŁ2.00 wh

ge 27

right - pa

May/June

ce

mmer ber of Co

am

tershire Ch

d Worces

rdshire an

by Herefo

Direct

Busine

ion

ss

Business

Directio

n

WANT TO READ MORE?

2011 Issue

1

s succe ss - pag r e 24

The big intervie w: James Dyson

- page His drive 22 for inno vation an success d what makes Business BD02.ind

d 1

Directio

n publis

hed by

him a

Hereford

shire an

d Worce

stershire

ÂŁ2.00 w

here so

Chambe

r of Com

merce

July/Aug

ld

ust 2011

then either log in, subscribe or join the Chamber today!

www.hwchamber.co.uk Tel: 0845 641 1641

Issue 2

29/6/11

10:18:40