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Latest updates and stories from Bedfordshire Chamber of Commerce and its Members

Parent Power – Helping Young Children in Bedford to Thrive

The Bedford Giving Residents’ Panel has awarded its first grants to organisations to help young children in Bedford to thrive.

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Neville Funerals Campaign to Dispel Direct Funerals Myth

Neville Funerals, one of the Home Counties longest-established family-owned businesses, is reporting an increase in requests for Direct Funerals in the wake of both the pandemic and as a result of the current cost of living crisis.

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As charity member Schoolreaders celebrates its 10th anniversary, will you and your teams join the Race for Reading?

Schoolreaders is a national child literacy charity, and their vision is that every child should learn to read well.  The charity was founded in Bedfordshire in 2013 and so celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. By recruiting volunteers and placing them into primary schools across the country to provide one-to-one reading support sessions, Schoolreaders is bringing greater literacy skills to many thousands of children every week.

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What the 2023 Budget Could Mean for Your Business – and How We Can Help

“Cutting and simplifying” – this is how the Government headlined its 2023 Spring Budget.

So, we did some cutting and simplifying of our own, boiling the budget down into its business essentials to highlight the changes and opportunities you need to be aware of - and how we at the Chamber help our members take action to get on top of them.

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100 days left for businesses to access free intensive support programme

Time is running out for businesses to access a free intensive support programme designed to help them achieve sustainable long-term growth.

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Director General’s Visit and LSIP Event: How We’ve Been Championing Local Businesses

It’s been a busy few weeks here at the Bedfordshire Chamber of Commerce.

We welcomed a visit from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Director General, Shevaun Haviland, published the results on an opinion poll on the planned expansion of Luton Airport, met with Vauxhall to discuss electric vehicle strategy and funding, and hosted a Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) event to help businesses combat the skills shortage.

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Peli BioThermal Announces Awards Win!

Company’s industry-leading passive products receive renowned recognition in annual Asia awards, achieving accolades for excellence five years in a row

Peli BioThermal, the life science industry’s partner from discovery to distribution, is celebrating its latest awards success, including being announced as Best Temperature Control Packaging Provider.

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Apprenticeships, the career alternative route and solving the skills shortages

James Trumper, is a sixth-generation member of the family-owned Neville Trust group of businesses based in Luton that includes Neville Special Projects, Neville Joinery and Neville Funerals. He made the decision that a degree apprenticeship, that will lead to him being fully qualified as a Quantity Surveyor via the programme offered by Westminster University, was the choice that best suited his needs, and his future plans.  

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BRITISH CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE BUDGET REACTION: Measures unlikely to shift dial on business investment

Giving her full reaction to today’s spring budget, Shevaun Haviland, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: 
 
“The Chancellor has acted to address the unfilled jobs blighting our economy. It is especially good to see the help on childcare and for over 50s workers.  

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How Foreign Exchange can save you money

Five ways looking at your foreign exchange provision can help you cut costs in 2023

By Sophia Awan
Strategic Partnerships Manager at Moneycorp 

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Kirkby Diamond lifts crown as leading agent in Bedfordshire

Kirkby Diamond is celebrating being crowned the leading commercial property agent in Bedfordshire after completing 122 deals in 2022.

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Neville Trust Announces NOAH Enterprise as its Charity of the Year

One of the region’s longest established family-owned businesses Neville Trust, which comprises of Neville Funerals, Neville Special Projects, and Neville Joinery has announced it will be supporting the local homeless and welfare charity, NOAH Enterprise in a year-long partnership.

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Moxey’s arrival strengthens Taylor Walton Residential Conveyancing team

The Residential Conveyancing team at leading regional law firm Taylor Walton has been strengthened with the arrival of Chartered Legal Executive Tricia Moxey, who joins after a 25-year career with Dunstable law firm Knowles Benning.

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Kirkby Diamond lands major letting at airport

A major new occupier is coming in to land at a new headquarters at London Luton Airport, commercial property consultancy Kirkby Diamond announced today.

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Sue Ryder’s Grief Kind Space in Bedfordshire to tackle grief loneliness

People of Bedfordshire will be able to access free and informal peer-to-peer bereavement support from Thursday 9 March, when Sue Ryder launches its brand-new Grief Kind Space in Milton Ernest just north of Bedford.

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Peli BioThermal Launches Further Additions to Company’s Crēdo Cube™ Dry Ice Range

Expansion of Crēdo™ product portfolio to include deep frozen applications optimised to minimise amount of dry ice required without sacrificing superior thermal performance.

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Is Your Sales Pipeline Looking Weak? Here’s How We Can Help

What’s coming your way, what’s it worth, when will it pay out, and how likely is it to come good? If you needed a handy definition of a sales pipeline, you probably couldn’t do better than this.

But like any pipe, it’s susceptible to two common problems: it can easily become too full of stuff that sinks to the bottom and doesn’t make the distance, or too empty of the stuff that flows through healthily.

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Feeling the Love: Here at the Chamber, It’s Not Just for Valentine’s Day!

With the usual yearly flurry of cards, chocolates and flowers, Valentine’s Day has come and gone again.

But whilst we hope you and your beloved enjoyed the occasion, here at Bedfordshire Chamber of Commerce we believe in spreading the love all year round - in a strictly professional sense, of course.

Read More

Four promotions as Kirkby Diamond rewards senior team

Commercial property consultants Kirkby Diamond has rewarded its senior team for another outstanding year of business by announcing four key promotions.  

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Wyboston Lakes Resort celebrates 40th anniversary

Wyboston Lakes Resort will mark 40 years of trading from its site in Bedfordshire this year with several events and activities.

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Bedford business raises thousands for Sue Ryder through a series of charity challenges

Assure Consulting Ltd, based in Bedford has raised £5,000 for palliative, neurological and bereavement support charity, Sue Ryder, during a year-long partnership.

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Double recognition for Wyboston Lakes Resort at Greengage Sustainability Awards

Louisa Watson, Director of Marketing at Wyboston Lakes Resort and Sustainability Director of beam has been recognised as Sustainability Industry Champion at the prestigious Greengage Sustainability Awards.

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Sue Ryder searches for volunteers in Bedfordshire to support new service for grieving people

National healthcare and bereavement charity Sue Ryder is on the search for volunteers in Bedfordshire to help set up a new local initiative offering vital support to residents who are living with bereavement. 

The charity is opening a series of Grief Kind Spaces across the country in 2023, with the first in Bedfordshire opening in Milton Ernest, just north of Bedford in the coming months.

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Member Interview: Machins Solicitors – Making it Easier to Navigate Immigration Law and Recruit New Workers

With the national labour shortage making it increasingly difficult for Bedfordshire businesses to fill posts with suitable candidates, bringing workers in from abroad can be a pragmatic solution, especially as the UK is seen as an attractive professional destination.

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Why Apprentices Hold the Key to Successful Business Growth

6th – 12th of February marks National Apprenticeship Week, with this year’s theme focussed on Skills for Life. The week aims to bring together businesses and Apprentices across the country to shine a light on the positive impact that Apprenticeships make not only to individuals, but businesses and the wider economy too.

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Outstanding start to 2023 follows record year at Wyboston Lakes Resort

 
Wyboston Lakes Resort has made an outstanding start to 2023 following a year of record results in 2022.

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Cranfield University joins with Bedford Borough Council to plant new Miyawaki forest

More than 3,000 trees have been planted in Bedford as part of a Miyawaki forest project involving Cranfield University. 

Bedford had its first Miyawaki trees placed in the ground on Saturday (21) – through a partnership between Bedford Borough Council, Cranfield University, the Forest of Marston Vale, and Bedford Rotary Club. The project is part of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ funded Trees for Climate initiative.

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Top Wellbeing Trends, 2023: What Matters to Your Employees?

Nothing makes people rethink their health and wellbeing like a succession of hard knocks – and if we didn’t all know that before, we certainly do now, in the wake of assorted global and national turmoil.

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Esther Roche named one of 2023’s most inspiring female founders

Esther Roche has been named one of the UK’s most inspirational and dynamic female entrepreneurs by the f:Entrepreneur ‘#ialso100’ campaign.

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Cranfield awarded prestigious Small Business Charter accreditation

In recognition of its wide-ranging support for small businesses, outstanding student entrepreneurship provision and dedicated work with small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to support growth in the local community, Cranfield School of Management has achieved the Small Business Charter Award.

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Parent Power – Helping Young Children in Bedford to Thrive

The Bedford Giving Residents’ Panel has awarded its first grants to organisations to help young children in Bedford to thrive.

Read More

Neville Funerals Campaign to Dispel Direct Funerals Myth

Neville Funerals, one of the Home Counties longest-established family-owned businesses, is reporting an increase in requests for Direct Funerals in the wake of both the pandemic and as a result of the current cost of living crisis.

Read More

As charity member Schoolreaders celebrates its 10th anniversary, will you and your teams join the Race for Reading?

Schoolreaders is a national child literacy charity, and their vision is that every child should learn to read well.  The charity was founded in Bedfordshire in 2013 and so celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. By recruiting volunteers and placing them into primary schools across the country to provide one-to-one reading support sessions, Schoolreaders is bringing greater literacy skills to many thousands of children every week.

Read More

What the 2023 Budget Could Mean for Your Business – and How We Can Help

“Cutting and simplifying” – this is how the Government headlined its 2023 Spring Budget.

So, we did some cutting and simplifying of our own, boiling the budget down into its business essentials to highlight the changes and opportunities you need to be aware of - and how we at the Chamber help our members take action to get on top of them.

Read More

100 days left for businesses to access free intensive support programme

Time is running out for businesses to access a free intensive support programme designed to help them achieve sustainable long-term growth.

Read More

Director General’s Visit and LSIP Event: How We’ve Been Championing Local Businesses

It’s been a busy few weeks here at the Bedfordshire Chamber of Commerce.

We welcomed a visit from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Director General, Shevaun Haviland, published the results on an opinion poll on the planned expansion of Luton Airport, met with Vauxhall to discuss electric vehicle strategy and funding, and hosted a Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) event to help businesses combat the skills shortage.

Read More

Peli BioThermal Announces Awards Win!

Company’s industry-leading passive products receive renowned recognition in annual Asia awards, achieving accolades for excellence five years in a row

Peli BioThermal, the life science industry’s partner from discovery to distribution, is celebrating its latest awards success, including being announced as Best Temperature Control Packaging Provider.

Read More

Apprenticeships, the career alternative route and solving the skills shortages

James Trumper, is a sixth-generation member of the family-owned Neville Trust group of businesses based in Luton that includes Neville Special Projects, Neville Joinery and Neville Funerals. He made the decision that a degree apprenticeship, that will lead to him being fully qualified as a Quantity Surveyor via the programme offered by Westminster University, was the choice that best suited his needs, and his future plans.  

Read More

BRITISH CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE BUDGET REACTION: Measures unlikely to shift dial on business investment

Giving her full reaction to today’s spring budget, Shevaun Haviland, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: 
 
“The Chancellor has acted to address the unfilled jobs blighting our economy. It is especially good to see the help on childcare and for over 50s workers.  

Read More

How Foreign Exchange can save you money

Five ways looking at your foreign exchange provision can help you cut costs in 2023

By Sophia Awan
Strategic Partnerships Manager at Moneycorp 

Read More

Kirkby Diamond lands major letting at airport

A major new occupier is coming in to land at a new headquarters at London Luton Airport, commercial property consultancy Kirkby Diamond announced today.

Read More

Sue Ryder’s Grief Kind Space in Bedfordshire to tackle grief loneliness

People of Bedfordshire will be able to access free and informal peer-to-peer bereavement support from Thursday 9 March, when Sue Ryder launches its brand-new Grief Kind Space in Milton Ernest just north of Bedford.

Read More

Peli BioThermal Launches Further Additions to Company’s Crēdo Cube™ Dry Ice Range

Expansion of Crēdo™ product portfolio to include deep frozen applications optimised to minimise amount of dry ice required without sacrificing superior thermal performance.

Read More

Is Your Sales Pipeline Looking Weak? Here’s How We Can Help

What’s coming your way, what’s it worth, when will it pay out, and how likely is it to come good? If you needed a handy definition of a sales pipeline, you probably couldn’t do better than this.

But like any pipe, it’s susceptible to two common problems: it can easily become too full of stuff that sinks to the bottom and doesn’t make the distance, or too empty of the stuff that flows through healthily.

Read More

Feeling the Love: Here at the Chamber, It’s Not Just for Valentine’s Day!

With the usual yearly flurry of cards, chocolates and flowers, Valentine’s Day has come and gone again.

But whilst we hope you and your beloved enjoyed the occasion, here at Bedfordshire Chamber of Commerce we believe in spreading the love all year round - in a strictly professional sense, of course.

Read More

Four promotions as Kirkby Diamond rewards senior team

Commercial property consultants Kirkby Diamond has rewarded its senior team for another outstanding year of business by announcing four key promotions.  

Read More

Wyboston Lakes Resort celebrates 40th anniversary

Wyboston Lakes Resort will mark 40 years of trading from its site in Bedfordshire this year with several events and activities.

Read More

Bedford business raises thousands for Sue Ryder through a series of charity challenges

Assure Consulting Ltd, based in Bedford has raised £5,000 for palliative, neurological and bereavement support charity, Sue Ryder, during a year-long partnership.

Read More

Double recognition for Wyboston Lakes Resort at Greengage Sustainability Awards

Louisa Watson, Director of Marketing at Wyboston Lakes Resort and Sustainability Director of beam has been recognised as Sustainability Industry Champion at the prestigious Greengage Sustainability Awards.

Read More

Sue Ryder searches for volunteers in Bedfordshire to support new service for grieving people

National healthcare and bereavement charity Sue Ryder is on the search for volunteers in Bedfordshire to help set up a new local initiative offering vital support to residents who are living with bereavement. 

The charity is opening a series of Grief Kind Spaces across the country in 2023, with the first in Bedfordshire opening in Milton Ernest, just north of Bedford in the coming months.

Read More

Member Interview: Machins Solicitors – Making it Easier to Navigate Immigration Law and Recruit New Workers

With the national labour shortage making it increasingly difficult for Bedfordshire businesses to fill posts with suitable candidates, bringing workers in from abroad can be a pragmatic solution, especially as the UK is seen as an attractive professional destination.

Read More

Why Apprentices Hold the Key to Successful Business Growth

6th – 12th of February marks National Apprenticeship Week, with this year’s theme focussed on Skills for Life. The week aims to bring together businesses and Apprentices across the country to shine a light on the positive impact that Apprenticeships make not only to individuals, but businesses and the wider economy too.

Read More

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