Western Union Business Solutions are delighted to be members of Surrey Chamber of Commerce
15th May 2019
Payment specialists Western Union Business Solutions (WUBS) have joined Surrey Chamber to help businesses in the county grow and thrive. WUBS specialises in helping businesses trade internationally, by helping them to streamline their payments and protect profits from adverse currency
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Mounting Uncertainty Delays Further Rate Cut
20th June 2025
Responding to the latest Bank of England interest rate decision, David Bharier, Head of Research at the British Chambers of Commerce said: “Yesterday’s CPI data confirmed that inflation remains stubbornly high, so today’s decision by the Bank of England to
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Dean of Guildford, Dianna Gwilliams To Retire.
20th June 2023
The Very Reverend Dianna Gwilliams has announced that she will retire as Dean of Guildford at the end of her ten years of service in September 2023. She will have her last evensong on Sunday 17th September to mark
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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
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Curchod & Co Boosts Building Surveying Team With Appointment Of Duncan Firstbrook
19th September 2019
Curchod & Co has appointed Duncan Firstbrook MRICS, who will be joining the Building Surveying Team working out of the firm’s Farnham office. Duncan is a Chartered Building Surveyor graduating with a degree from the University of Brighton in 1998.
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Annual business awards open for entries
9th March 2020
The third Spelthorne Means Business Awards is officially open for entries after a launch party held at The Thameside Brewery on Tuesday 3 March. Guests at the launch included last year’s winners and this year’s sponsors who joined Spelthorne’s Deputy
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Macbeth Cast Announced
15th January 2020
8-29 February: Ahead of next February’s production, the award-winning Guildford Shakespeare Company (GSC) are proud to announce the cast for Shakespeare’s supernatural thriller MACBETH. MACBETH, which will be GSC’s 43rd show, will open the Surrey theatre company’s 14th programme
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Safer and Greener Roadworks Improved by Enhanced Jenoptik Enforcement Solution
11th November 2022
Jenoptik have developed a series of enhancements to its temporary speed camera enforcement which means more sites can be monitored through an innovative, environmentally friendly power solution. In the last 20 years, Jenoptik has delivered 500 Temporary Automated Speed
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Surrey Translation Bureau wins another award!
15th May 2019
Surrey Translation Bureau (STB) has once again received the prestigious Corporate Member Award from the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI). The company was named joint winner, alongside Anja Jones Translations, at the Institute’s international conference and gala dinner in Sheffield
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Tunsgate Arch is open!
9th October 2019
The town’s historic Tunsgate Arch is open again after a period of closure for restoration. Guildford Mayor, Cllr Richard Billington, Leader of the Council Cllr Caroline Reeves, Managing Director of the Council, James Whiteman, CEO of Experience Guildford Amanda Masters and councillors,
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The Square Camberley launch independent entrepreneur campaign
12th August 2019
The Square Camberley has today launched their ‘Be Independent’ campaign, seeing one lucky independent entrepreneur/s win the chance to trade at the shopping centre. As a result of the current economic climate, many entrepreneurs are finding it challenging to expand
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GB Pro-Series 2023: International Tennis Returns to Foxhills This Summer
10th July 2023
Foxhills Club & Resort in Surrey will serve up an exhilarating week of elite international tennis this summer as the GB Pro-Series returns for a 14th time. The tournament will take place from Sunday 30 July until Saturday 5
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Awards Open For Businesswomen Across Sussex and Surrey
25th January 2023
After receiving many enquiries, organisers of the hugely popular Dynamic Awards have announced they are now open for entries. The 2023 awards, organised by Platinum Media Group, will celebrate the outstanding achievements of female business leaders across Sussex and
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Trafalgar Structures Celebrates Success at Surrey SME Awards After Winning Business Innovation Award
9th March 2023
Surrey-based Trafalgar Structures is delighted to have won the Business Innovation award at the SME Surrey Business Awards. Sponsored by I Need a PA, the awards are designed to celebrate the industrious, hardworking and enterprising SMEs in Surrey. Winners
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Surrey Choices Celebrates Achieving GOOD Rating for EmployAbility Service
13th September 2023
Surrey Choices, a leading organisation dedicated to providing exceptional support services for disabled and neurodivergent people, is thrilled to announce that their EmployAbility service has received a “GOOD” rating from the prestigious Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) audit conducted
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Young People Need Your Help More Than Ever: Sleep Anywhere But Your Bed to Help Prevent Youth Homelessness
22nd July 2020
(Photo Caption: Join YMCA DownsLink Group’s biggest fundraising event of the year, Sleep Easy, Friday 9th October 2020, to raise money to tackle the causes of youth homelessness.) Family breakdown is a leading cause of youth homelessness and pressure created
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Guildford Shakespeare Company brings school children into local care home for second year.
6th August 2019
Spirit of Youth, the intergenerational drama project from Guildford Shakespeare Company (GSC), unites local school children and care home residents to create their own version of a Shakespeare play. Spirit of Youth first began last year when children from Weyfield
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The Winner of the 2023 National S.M.E. Business Awards for Best Enterprise Goes to Surrey Based Carver Coaching
8th December 2023
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
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Grant to help fund iconic A3 roadside sculpture to mark G F Watt’s 200th birthday
28th August 2019
Last night the Executive approved a £40,000 grant to the Watts Gallery Trust to help towards the cost of installing a cast of the famous sculpture, Physical Energy, alongside the A3 at Compton. Cllr James Steel, Lead Councillor for Leisure,
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The Lights Are Going Out (Temporarily)*
7th April 2020
*Apart from one! The Yvonne Arnaud theatre’s distinctive coloured lights and bright canopy are being turned off, until the theatre reopens. Apart from one light, known in theatre tradition as the ‘ghost light’, and necessary security lighting, the theatre will
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