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  • Plans Lodged For Major Woking Offices Development
    16th November 2023

      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

  • King’s Speech: Missed Opportunity To Help Business In Challenging Times
    16th November 2023

      Responding to today’s King’s Speech, Alex Veitch Director of Policy and Insight at the British Chambers of Commerce, said:    “The King’s Speech opened with an aspiration to increase economic growth – but it failed to outline how that will

  • Solarcycle Scoops Award for Smarter Transport at Crest Business Awards
    16th November 2023

      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.

  • Should My Company be Making QIPs (Quarterly Instalment Payments)?
    1st November 2023

      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

  • RSM UK Strengthens Regulatory Advisory Team With New Associate Director
    1st November 2023

      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

  • The Power of Awards
    1st November 2023

      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

  • CREST23 Green Awards has a tip-off to businesses
    1st November 2023

      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
    1st November 2023

      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 Maker Responds to Emergency Order as Rain Threatens Public Water Supply
    1st November 2023

      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

  • £1m for New Study Putting Robots to Work on Farms
    1st November 2023

      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

  • University of Surrey Secures £905,000 NIHR Grant to Investigate Antidepressant Prescribing in the UK’s South Asian Community
    19th October 2023

      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

  • Businesses: Your County’s Future Workforce Needs You!
    19th October 2023

      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