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We’re proud to be a proactive Chamber. Constantly sharing useful content and resources with our members and wider audiences, and developing our services to help businesses respond to evolving challenges and opportunities.

That’s the visible stuff. But behind the scenes, we’re also heavily involved in lobbying Government and national institutions to represent the interests of our region’s businesses and communities to ensure you and your peers are listened to.

Lobbying and policy are possibly not the most exciting or glamorous elements of doing business, but in the background, they’re constantly working to influence decisions, sway opinion, and articulate your business’s hopes, fears, and interests, at local, regional, and national level.

Lobbying is a useful business tactic for influencing government decision making, particularly for businesses facing threats such as a tax hike or a new policy that could damage their product or service. Lobbying gives businesses a voice to influence the policies and regulations that matter to their business.

Whether we've experienced its presence in the media, or benefitted from a successful outcome, lobbying will have played a role in most of our lives.

Perhaps we've even felt its impact as a business, through a policy that was either rejected or supported by parliament.