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  • BCC comments on GDP and trade figures
    11th January 2019

    Commenting on the GDP and trade statistics for November 2018, published by the ONS today, Mike Spicer, Director of Research and Economics at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: “Despite a small improvement in GDP growth between October and

  • High Level Support for Growing Businesses Based in the Coast to Capital Area
    10th January 2019

    Businesses in the Coast to Capital area that have the potential and ambition to grow, are being invited to apply to Coast to Capital’s innovative Growth Hub Escalator Programme which starts in January 2019. The six-month pilot, is being delivered

  • New Year Records at Brooklands Museue
    10th January 2019

    The UK’s largest New Year’s Day gathering of classic vehicles which is held at Brooklands Museum on January 1st every year broke its previous record with just over 7,900 people attending throughout the day. The historic site in Weybridge which

  • Premier League and FA funding secured for new state of the art pitch at Kings College
    10th January 2019

    Guildford Borough Council and Kings College have successfully secured a grant of over £346,000 from the Premier League (PL) and FA Facilities Fund (FA:FF) towards a state of the art, full size, floodlit 3G pitch at Kings College in Guildford.

  • UAE Documentation Requirements
    10th January 2019

    Date: 3rd January 2019 We have been notified by the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce that with immediate effect, the following points must be adhered to in relation to submitting documents accompanying Arab Certificates of Origin for legalisation by the UAE

  • Qatar Documentation Requirements       
    10th January 2019

    Date: 3rd January 2019   We have been notified by the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce that with immediate effect, the following points must be adhered to in relation to submitting documents accompanying Arab Certificates of Origin for legalisation by the

  • Electronic Documentation   
    10th January 2019

    Date: 3rd January 2019   We have been notified by the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce that with immediate effect, the following embassies will no longer accept documentation that has been electronically produced.   United Arab Emirates (UAE)   Iraq  

  •  Legalisation of Arab COO- Bahrain                     
    10th January 2019

    Date: 9th January 2019   We have been notified by the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce that from the 1st December 2018, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain will only legalise Certificates of Origin that have been issued as their

  • BCC Quarterly Economic Survey: Big squeeze on firms from recruitment, prices and cash flow
    3rd January 2019

      The British Chambers of Commerce’s quarterly economic survey – the UK’s largest private sector survey of business sentiment and a leading indicator of UK GDP growth – finds that the UK economy ended 2018 stuck in a weak holding

  • Major investment in “big ideas, energy and vision” pledged in newly-launched funding prospectus
    20th December 2018

    Enterprise M3 has launched a £20million Growth Fund to back innovators and entrepreneurs who can deliver projects which will drive clean growth and enhance productivity and create jobs across the digital, aerospace, defence, space, transport and med-tech industries. ‘The Capital

  • RED2GREEN
    20th December 2018

    RED2GREEN RED2GREEN is an exciting environmental initiative that enables its partners to deliver their products and services in a planet-friendly and sustainable way. We all know that everything we do in business comes at a cost to the environment. Businesses

  • BCC: immigration proposals could leave UK businesses with their ‘hands tied
    19th December 2018

    Commenting on the publication of the government’s Immigration White Paper, Dr Adam Marshall, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said:   “While these proposals are not quite as bad as we had originally feared, it’s no secret