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New Affiliated Chambers & Associations
Banks Security Solutions
Banks Security Solutions was established in 2020, providing installation and service support for CCTV, Access control intruder alarms and much more, our team has over 20 years’ experience in the electronic security industry and aim to provide the best possible customer service and support to all our clients. Get in touch if you require a new security system or support and maintenance of an existing system or just advise for a future project.
Address: Ridgeland House, 1st Floor, 15 Carfax, Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 1DY
Website: www.Banks-SecuritySolutions.com
Telephone: 01403432444
MLD Event Group
MLD Event Group are a very team orientated company, we are focussed to reduce the stress of event planning & logistics specialising in, CDM, qualified crew and plant operators. We pride ourselves on our qualifications, exceeding expectations and assisting our clients to produce the very best events and festivals. Customer focused and trusted by our clients.
Address: Littlehampton, West Sussex
Website: MLD.EVENTS
Telephone: 01903 372773
EMW Law LLP
EMW, a law firm with a refreshing approach, offers a full portfolio of legal services to UK based and global companies. Our wealth team work with individuals, entrepreneurs and business owners. We take great pride in delivering a bespoke service to our clients’ individual needs ensuring they have the right team at EMW working with them.
Address: St John’s House, 3rd Floor, Haslett Avenue West, Crawley, RH10 1HS
Website: https://www.emwllp.com/
Telephone: 0345 070 6000
Coast Audio
At Coast Audio, we produce podcasts that engage your listeners and promote your brand. We provide recording, sound design, music, editing, mixing and mastering to broadcast standards, and will work with you to develop your podcast, enabling it to maximise its potential and grow your audience.
Address: Europa House, Goldstone Villas, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 3RQ
Website: www.coastaudio.co.uk
Telephone: +44 7855944640
European International Fairs Limited
We are a team of event logistics experts, offering organisers premium project management freight logistics services and exhibitors high quality, efficient transportation and onsite handling for any event.
Address: Unit 6, Skitts Manor Farm, Moor Lane, Edenbridge, Kent, TN8 5RA
Website: www.european-intl.com
Telephone: 01732 860330
Lund Bros & Co Ltd
Specialists in Sheet Metal and Steel Fabrications Lunds have been in the forefront of the industry for over a hundred years. We are currently one of the leading manufacturers of EV Charging stations for the European and domestic markets and full flight simulators for L3 Harris, Crawley.
Address: Brookside Ave, Rustington, West Sussex, BN17 6SL
Website: www.lunds.co.uk
Telephone: 01903 784242
Highweald Wine
Highweald was established in 2016, with the planting of 120,000 vines in the beautiful Sussex High Weald, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Coming from a range of professional backgrounds, all qualified and experienced viticulturalists and winemakers, the Highweald team has an incredible amount of knowledge and are committed to being a leading best-practice vineyard in England.
Address: Highweald Wine Estate, Deaks Lane, Ansty, Cuckfield RH175JB
Website: www.highwealdwine.com
Telephone: 01444 417206
Creative Process Digital
Creative Process Digital supports employers and apprentices to develop the digital skills and capabilities they need for the 21st century. By sourcing and training new recruits and existing staff we help build the talent pipeline and digital skills infrastructure for our local economy, playing a critical part in enabling growth and high skilled, sustainable job creation within Digital marketing and social media, Digital design and software development and Digital administration.
Address: Telecom House, Eight Floor, 125135 Preston Rd, Brighton BN1 6AF
Website: www.creativeprocessdigital.com
Telephone: 01273 232273
On Your Side Therapy
On Your Side Therapy is uniquely positioned to offer a blend of corporate experience with counselling expertise to help companies support the staff, grow their talent and drive performance. Services on offer include In-house Counselling, Mental Health Talks e.g. Impostor Syndrome or Burnout, Talking Groups, Reflective Coaching and Mental Wellbeing Programme design.
Address: 7 Foxwells, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH17 6LZ
Website: https://www.onyoursidetherapy. com/what-could-corporate-counsellinglook-like
Telephone: 07976 957 044
Superkids & Co
Superkids & Co is a UK designer childrenswear fashion agency, specialising in wholesale, distribution, e‐commerce and establishing shop in shops, for designer childrenswear brands. We offer a complete agency solution for the kidswear market to our impressive domestic and international client base.
Address: 43 Hampstead Road, Brighton, BN1 5NG
Website: www.superkidsandco.com
Telephone: 07703380576/07900187669
Unity Insurance Services
An insurance broker that makes a difference… Unity Insurance Services is a specialist insurance broker who is also owned by a charity, the Scouts. We arrange insurance solutions for Scouts, charities, youth groups, not-for-profit and commercial organisations. 100% of our profits donated to charity
Address: Suite 8 The Quadrant, 60 Marlborough Road, Lancing Business Park, Lancing, West Sussex BN15 8UW
Website: https://www.unityinsuranceservices.co.uk/
Telephone: 0345 040 7702
Yora Pet Foods
Yora manufacturers the world’s most sustainable pet food. Based in Handcross, West Sussex, we distribute our full range of dog and cat food and treats to over 20 international countries. We were the first sustainable brand to market in 2018 and continue to lead the way in this exciting new planet friendly space.
Address: Unit 1000, Spindle Way, West Sussex, RH10 1TG
Website: yorapetfoods.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 7803170140
If you’re a member – why not refer someone, we have a generous referral scheme – that saves both you and your referral on membership costs. For more information call us on
01444 259259
Make your business more financially sustainable in 2022 by talking to an expert about an R&D Tax Credits Claim?
At Cooden – R&D Tax Specialists, we were in somewhat celebratory mood as 2021 drew to a close. On 16 December we received the last payout of the year into our client account, it was for one of our newly acquired clients in 2021, a specialist veterinary care business based in Wales. This claim was momentous for Cooden as it saw our clients’ Research and Development tax savings top £5 million in a calendar year for the first time.
2021 has been a year of steady growth with a number of new significant businesses becoming clients. We’ve even taken on a Blue Chip Cyber Security business, with a number of claims for their UK-based entities. Our goal was to obtain 4 new clients who would have claims of over £75k, in the end we took on 6.
What have you been doing since Covid hit to sustain, redirect, improve your business? Have you been doing something that someone outside your business might describe as challenging or exciting but for you it’s just solving problems, overcoming some technical issues with a new product or a product update, engineering out a design flaw in one of our established products, looked to fundamentally redesign the manufacturing process so that we generate less waste.
The default answer, when we talk to business like yours, that have never claimed R&D Tax Credits, tends to be “It’s not research and development, it’s just what we do! We’ve never filed an R&D Tax Relief Claim, because we don’t think that we are performing any R&D and no one has really told us any different and challenged our way of thinking.”
Well, if you always do what you have always done, don’t be surprised if you keep getting the same results. Stop! Take some time, consider what you have been doing, ask yourself:
Could anyone else have done this without spending a lot of time and effort doing it?
Would someone like to steal it or copy it?
Would someone have paid us a lot of money for you to do it for them?
Did we go through a lot of heart ache trying to get to the end of this?
Have we suffered a scientific or technological failure that has prevented us from completing the project?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’ve probably been doing some R&D and it might be worth getting in touch, just like all of our new clients who have discovered that claiming for R&D Tax Relief wasn’t quite so taxing as they might have thought and ultimately for many of them was very rewarding.
It would appear as though our stress-free service offering has gone down very well with our customers. It consists of
a no-obligation discovery session to determine your eligibility prior to starting the claim;
a low-hassle data collection process for both the financial element and the technical element of claims; and
the use of our client account to receive funds and for visibility to chase HMRC when they haven’t been forthcoming.
So, there really are few reasons left for you not to at least have an initial discussion with our Director, Simon Bulteel, but just in case you have any others:
If you are worried that it might not be worth it, our average claim value was just under £75,000; If you are worried that we can’t handle large claims, our largest claim was for just under £700,000 for a scaling up Cyber-Security business and our next largest claim was over £575,000 for a technology company delivering banking solutions for Instant Payments.
If you are worried, you’ll be wasting our time, you won’t, our smallest claim was for just under £1,500 for a start-up skincare business.
If you are worried that HMRC are going to punish you for making a claim, we’ve had one enquiry in 2021 into a Patent Box claim, where HMRC couldn’t find a patent in the name of the company.
There really are no reasons left to stop you. We are here to guide you, just like we have over a 150 businesses before you, to a successful and rewarding R&D Tax Credits claim.
With new changes coming in 2023, there has never been a better time to start claiming for your new product developments or improvements and with the ability to claim for two prior years, you could see a significant boost to your 2022 cashflow.
You can book your no-obligation discovery session at a time that suits you by visiting
https://calendly.com/simon-bulteel/ dicovery-bus-edge
British Army joins forces with CrisisCast to develop revolutionary virtual reality training
Working closely in partnership with the British Army, expert disaster and crisis management organisation, CrisisCast, has announced the pilot of a virtual reality platform developed to assist Armed Forces training in human emotions and cross-cultural communications
Project Tyrion, Human Domain Matrix is a new, innovative prototype training concept developed by the British Army and CrisisCast, which brings the immersion and role-play of virtual reality platforms into a military environment.
CrisisCast, award-winning film makers, virtual reality producers and disaster and crisis management experts, were engaged to craft the virtual reality platform piloted with the British Army as a result of the organisations wealth of experience in utilising state-of-the-art British and Australian film industry and VR techniques to dramatise events for emerging security needs in the UK, Middle East and worldwide.
Going beyond training the cognitive to introduce more emotionally driven behavioural mechanics, which are inherently complex to model and simulate, the new virtual reality training platform seamlessly merges art, technology and science to enable military personnel to interact in realistically simulated environments that they may encounter, in order to provide immersive training in human emotion and cross-cultural communications.
Following its successful pilot, the virtual reality platform has highlighted how it can help to improve how judgement and empathy are practiced in a military environment.
Containing accurate and relevant choice points in cross-cultural communication with impactful consequences, the learning through engagement experience will significantly enhance the current provision in pre-deployment, bridging the knowledge gap and giving access to advanced qualitative, psychosocialemotional profiles of complex TAs.
David Wayman of CrisisCast, and a Senior Producer on the project, added:
“We’ve been relentless in our attention to detail, to ensure we can really suspend the learner’s disbelief, from accurate pattern of life events right down to the correct flashes on the uniforms. The art team have worked tirelessly to reproduce the reference images in high fidelity, whilst our coders have been helping us in coming up with ever more ingenious devices to deliver the training aims in-game.
Even though it’s only a proof of concept right now, the cinematic narrative, lifelike and likeable characters and stunning artwork has created a truly unique and impressive learning experience for our service personnel.” The virtual reality training platform has also been developed through CrisisCast’s collaborative partnerships with other global experts. Australia-based organisation Spectre Studios enabled the project to be brought to life through their expertise in production design, art direction and ability to drive innovation the virtual reality landscape.
Washington, DC-based organisation Valka-Mir Human Security supported CrisisCast in developing the content within the virtual reality training platform through their expertise in science-based analysis and solutions to preventing and countering protracted human conflict and violence.
Project Tyrion was further supported through the intelligence, big-data and analytical capability of global-based organisation Predli.
To find out more about Project Tyrion, Human Domain Matrix visit
