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What is South London Business?
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South London Business is a business-led public / private partnership that promotes the economic development of South London. We operate as both a strategic and operational body that:
What are the benefits?
Lobbying:
Businesses have to negotiate obstacles to their growth of a daily basis. In many cases these are local in nature. During the last twelve months we have helped secure or retain hundreds of jobs for companies located in South London. Our most recent success involved a manufacturing company in Richmond. We worked closely with both the local authority and the company to broker a resolution to a number of issues with the local authority's planning department. Following our intervention, these difficulties were resolved and the company has committed to remaining in the borough - safeguarding nearly 300 jobs.
Access:
Our activities enable us to provide you with access to the right people and organisations to help take your business forward. These may include:
Profile:
We understand that company brand and product awareness are extremely important. If you need to raise your profile both locally or regionally South London Business can help.
We have access to over 4000 businesses across South London through our network of local Chambers of Commerce. We also have excellent relationships with the local business press - with regular articles in Business South magazine and the Advertiser Business News (including the David Main column). Articles have also appeared in South East Business, South West Business and Commerce, the Croydon Guardian, Sutton Comet, The Richmond and Twickenham Times, the Croydon Advertiser, Regeneration and Renewal, and the Bromley News Shopper. We have also promoted our activities through advertorials placed in magazines such as Business South and Estates Review; and actively lobbied through our website, press releases and newsletters - all of which have received positive feedback from recipients.
Each year we also host six events to help promote South London Business, our activities and our Partners. These provide excellent opportunities for our partners to raise their profile, network with key public and private sector leaders and opinion formers, and raise their profile. During the last twelve months over 500 guests from over 200 companies have attended our events and made new contacts. Partners that choose to sponsor our events include: HSBC, IKEA, Mazars, Clarkson Wright and Jakes, ASB Law, CPD and BDO Stoy Hayward.
How does this affect your bottom line?
Making new contacts and attracting new business is certainly as important as retaining your existing customers. South London Business is not a PR or marketing business; we are not specialists in the design and production of glossy brochures or marketing strategies. However, we can help improve your bottom line by helping you overcome local obstacles to better business; helping you raise business to business awareness of your products and services, and helping you make new contacts - not just in your Borough but right across South London.
For further information on membership, please visit our Membership page.