Today (4 June) you can get vaccinated at a pop-up clinic! No appointments necessary

Getting the vaccine is one of the best ways we can stop the spread of the virus and curb the impact of any new variants of concern.

Below you can find a list of all our upcoming pop-up vaccination clinics over the next few days, more details of which are here.

Book an appointment via www.nhs.uk or call 119

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All your vaccination questions answered! Vaccine Q&A 

Hounslow business programme: Innovate & Grow

Webinars coming up:

"It was informative and Lisa Rides really did well with organisation and reminders"

- Eddie Asare, KM door 2 door

Fit to Bid: Branduin Business Support 

Bid Skills Training - Foundation

Monday 7^th June 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

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Bid Skills Training - Intermediate

Monday 14^th June 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

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These workshops have been meticulously developed over a decade and are designed to help organisations to write consistently winning answers, gain more confidence when developing a strategy for a bid, and ultimately increase bid win rates.

The objective is to help participants win more clients, increase revenues and profit, and be better equipped to successfully defend existing contracts.

Speaker:

• Neal Basson, The Bid Academy - Branduin Member

Digital Wellbeing & cultures around new digital trends:

Hybrid working model – home & office

Wednesday 9^th June 10:00 am – 11:00 am

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Case study presentations from a large PLC and a micro SME to contrast the issues, looking at best practice to best understand and implement a hybrid model of home / office working. It is the younger people who are missing out from the working experience, learning from their office peers, networking and socialising.

Speakers:

• Jane Jones, Dell Technologies
• Sally Smith, Hounslow Chamber

Business programme

Options facing liquidation or insolvency

Thursday 10^th June 10:00 am – 11:00 am

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Explaining Liquidation: this is the process of selling a business's assets to produce enough cash to pay back creditors. It ends in the business closing. If a company is not able to make ends meet, liquidation is one option to pay creditors and close the business. It should noted that liquidation is just one business exit strategy option

Explaining Insolvency: when a company is unable to pay its debts or when it has more liabilities than assets on its balance sheet, this being legally referred to as “technical insolvency”. Liquidation is a legal ending of a limited company.

Speakers:

• Umang Patel, Neum Insolvency.  Licensed as an Insolvency Practitioner in the UK by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

A great way to hear what Chambers are doing across a wider local area to support businesses and most importantly a way to grow your network

Cost: Members- £10 per person     Non-Members – £15 per person

A great way to hear what Chambers are doing across a wider local area to support businesses and most importantly a way to grow your network and do more business.

These events are always popular so book early to guarantee your place.

Limited Numbers –  Only 20 places are available to each Chamber to enable us to manage the group effectively on zoom. A Wait list will operate and additional spaces may be released depending on overall capacity.

I am delighted to inform you that we have the “Co-Innovate the West London Meets India Conference (UK-India Relations)” coming up on the 16th June.

The sector-specific webinars will follow on Thursday, the 17th of June on “The West London Meets India Healthcare” and “The West London Meets India Education”.

The West London Meets India conference and sector-specific webinars are designed to help London’s SMEs to explore the business, trade, and investment opportunities that India has to offer in various sectors and learn how to do business there. There will also be an opportunity to receive mentoring and further advice for SMEs interested in enhancing their India journey, including participation in virtual and/or actual bi-lateral trade delegations. 

I appreciate it if you kindly advertise these three events with your networks and social media platforms.

The Eventbrite links to book the tickets:

Co-Innovate West London Meets India Conference (UK-India Relations) Tickets, Wed 16 Jun 2021 at 10:00 | Eventbrite

West London Meets India Healthcare Webinar Tickets, Thu 17 Jun 2021 at 09:30 | Eventbrite

West London Meets India Education Webinar Tickets, Thu 17 Jun 2021 at 11:30 | Eventbrite

London Festival of Architecture - Paul Vick Architects will be there – click here for more details.

Bearing in mind the recent higher temperatures we thought this might be of interest. Please click here

Greater London Authority’s (GLA) Launch of Cool Spaces Phase 2 – Outdoors - 1^st June 2021 and Indoors 21^st June 2021 to 15^th September 2021, subject to the Government’s Roadmap out of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures

So loving the Burchells menus!

This new and ambitious project led by CPP Hounslow brings together Hounslow’s local artists to send a message that imagination, hope, and kindness are not cancelled, even in difficult times.  

The exhibition is full of bright, bold, uplifting work representing the artists’ hope for the future of our community.

Discover the works on the J C Decaux digital display boards on the High Street and the digital displays in the Treaty Centre. The exhibition will then tour the London Borough of Hounslow throughout the rest of 2021!

VIEW THE EXHIBITION ONLINE

Curated by members of the local community with support from CPP Hounslow, we want to give everyone the opportunity to experience the incredible wealth of artistic talent in our local area.The exhibition highlights the positive impact art can have on health and wellbeing, and reinvigorating the high street with art!

The artists featured are:

Connie Mae Jones, Daniel Silas, Daniela Torres, Dorota Watson & Isabel Wojciechowska-Watson, Eva Joy Lawrence, Gerald Curtis, William Kherbek & Claire Zakiewicz, Giacomo Giannelli, Gursharan Kaur, Gwen Shabka, Krystle Patel, Miguel Galue Piqueras, Peter Bennett, Pola Williams, Simon Hanna, Simrah Riaz and Sonia Gill

This project is supported by London Borough of Hounslow Council, the Creative Enterprise Zone/Mayor of London, Creative Enterprise West, with support from the Treaty Centre and Boomerang Media.

VIEW THE EXHIBITION ONLINE

May issue of Let's Talk Business out now

https://issuu.com/benham/docs/lets_talk_business_may_21

West London Local Chambers & Hounslow Chamber of Commerce are the primary support, networking, and representation organisation in west London for SMEs.

We support the interests, the commercial aspirations and the investment from businesses in Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham - the Chamber is the voice for all businesses located in the borough.