Finance for start-up businesses
Starting a new business is a challenge and so often an act of faith. A new business owner has the ambition, the vision, the ideas and the enthusiasm to take the plunge and go out on their own. The key…
Relocate your business without losing productivity
No matter the reason, whether it’s moving to a new office, current lease expiring or relocating to a new city to run your business, the aim is to move with minimal disruptions to your operations. Here our quick guide to…
Top Tips on Employing Staff
As an experienced HR consultant, I’m often asked for my tips on employing people within small businesses. Understandably, small business owners want to avoid the pitfalls along the way and ensure their staff are motivated and contributing fully to the…
Women Mean Business…
Read our column from Uckfield Matters magazine here online... This month’s Uckfield Matters theme has got me thinking, do we need a ‘Women only’ networking event? Naturally, it’s not something that I could be involved in personally and while there…
Top tips for a smooth business relocation
If your 2019 plans include relocating a business, your priorities will be to minimise downtime and avoid any major impact on productivity. Here are our top tips for a smooth business relocation: Appoint a project manager - This might be…
Your Active Chamber!
I don’t know about you but with increasingly busy lives it’s difficult sometimes to be as ‘active’ as we all know we should be! But ‘active’ isn’t just about physical activity, good though that is! Here at the Chamber, we…
7 Reasons to Reduce your Stress
When you have enough reasons to do something, motivating yourself to do it is effortless. Bombarding your brain with reasons to act makes motivation easy and one powerful strategy is to read a book on a habit you want to…
Off-site meetings – Why would you?
It has been a real privilege to be able to help local businesses by offering the services of our conference room at our Uckfield Business Support Centre. Most recently we have hosted Uckfield Chamber of Commerce ‘Lunch and Learn’ and…
New Year, new business goals!
Happy New Year! If you’re anything like the rest of us, then every new year brings a fresh opportunity to do things a bit differently and make those resolutions that we have every intention of fulfilling. Yes, we can look…
Self-Storage – The Solution for Growing Businesses
Congratulations! You did it. You’ve started your own business. You are now one of two million limited companies in operation in the UK, with around 300,000 new formations taking place each year.* As for most businesses, you may require a…