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  The best of the Nation’s SME’s were celebrated at the 2023 National Business Awards on Friday 1st December at Wembley Station.  The awards are the largest event of its kind in the county. Over 600 of the country’s leading

  Surrey scientists are celebrating with colleagues around the world, after winning new funding for a ‘library of greening’ – a new database enabling towns and cities to learn from each other’s success developing green spaces, waterways and other sustainability

  The RM Sotheby’s Royal Automobile Club’s 83rd London to Brighton Veteran Car Run was held on 5th November. Veteran cycles and motorcycles are a recent addition to the Run and for this year’s event Brooklands Museum’s Motorcycle Team set itself a

  Acklam Group has now submitted plans for a 136,000 sq ft 11 storey Grade A office development with retail, leisure and hospitality units on the ground floor that will create over 1,000 new jobs and provide significant economic and

  Solarcycle.UK was recently honoured with the prestigious Smarter Transport award at the Crest Business Awards held at WWF-UK’s Living Planet Building in Woking on November 26th, 2023. The award ceremony, a part of the Crest Business Awards Convention, celebrated sustainable solutions in various categories.

  If your company makes profits of over £1.5m then the answer is probably “yes” You need to consider new rules from 1 April 2023 that bring “associated” companies into play, and may mean more companies fall into the QIPs

  Leading audit, tax and consulting firm RSM UK has appointed David Dry as associate director to strengthen the firm’s risk and regulatory advisory team.   Based in RSM’s London office, David has over 15 years’ experience advising large financial

  At the recent Surry Business Awards, my company, Mandira’s Kitchen was recognised with a Highly Commended place in the Medium Sized Business category. On the night, everybody at our table was a little deflated, at not picking up the

  Surrey’s only green business awards resounded to a prediction that businesses face a pre-condition to operate based on their social-environmental impacts within the next decade as it celebrated the sustainability achievements of the winning 2023 businesses. The CREST23 Award

  Surrey Choices Growth Team Triumphs at Crest Business Awards 2023, Receiving the Community Impact Award Surrey Choices is proud to announce that its Growth Team of supported volunteers has been presented with the prestigious Community Impact Award at the

  Filter manufacturer Amazon Filters has turned round an emergency order from a water company in the south of England after torrential rain threatened to put a treatment works out of action. Successive downfalls and flooding in a short space

  A robot is finding its way around the farm, thanks to artificial intelligence technology and a new navigation solution developed at the University of Surrey. The FLEXBOT project has won a £998,639 grant from the Department for Environment, Food

  An innovative project to examine disparities in medication prescribing among the UK’s ethnic minority groups has been awarded £905,000 by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Focusing specifically on antidepressants, the project aims to shed light

  Dawn Redpath is Director for Economy and Growth at Surrey County Council   In August, the government announced that Upper Tier Local Authorities will take on all the formal functions held by Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) since 2011. For businesses, this will result in some practical changes and inherent opportunities. It means from 1

  A family-run logistics firm has announced that they will be expanding their reach with the addition of a multi-million pound new warehouse being built in the East of England. Independent logistics firm Hemisphere Freight Services has revealed that the steels are

  After nearly six years of energetic and transformational leadership Tamalie Newbery has decided to step down as Director and CEO. Brooklands Museum is delighted to announce the appointment of Alex Patterson as its new Director and CEO. It marks

Recent recipient of the Excellence in Touring award at the UK Theatre Awards. The stage adaptation of I, Daniel Blake that exposes the stark reality behind the cost-of-living crisis headlines opened at Northern Stage in May. Following a sold-out spring

London Gatwick has partnered with a Crawley-based company mnAi to improve understanding of opportunities within local and regional supply chains  New AI tool will highlight local companies and the services they can provide to the airport  Stakeholders, including businesses across

  The Guildford office of Azets, the UK Top 10 accounting firm, has pledged to raise £25,000 for Challengers. Challengers provides play and leisure opportunities for disabled children and young people aged 2- 18 years across Surrey, Hampshire, West Sussex,

  Sarah Gobran and Matt Pinches, co-founders and producers of the Guildford Shakespeare Company, have triumphed at the Institute of Directors’ (IoD) Director of the Year Awards 2023, winning the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion category. Covering the whole of England,