The Lancaster & District Chamber of Commerce’s annual Spring Business Lunch will this year take place on April 3rd at The Globe Arena, home of Morecambe Football Club.
The lunch is an excellent networking...
As I walked up Castle Hill last week early in the wonderful sunshine, I approached Lancaster Castle as I always do with a sense of awe at the majesty of our great heritage. On this particular day I found myself taking...
The British Chambers of Commerce and the Chamber Network continue to work to avoid a messy and disorderly exit from the European Union on 29th March. However, businesses need answers they can base decisions on, no...
The Lancaster & District Design Awards 2019 are now open for entries. We welcome entries from everyone in the community – residents, architects, community groups and builders. Projects should be completed and...
EXPERIENCE IS THEIR MAIN ASSET
The Collins English Dictionary defines the word “asset” as “anything valuable or useful”, and then gives an example of its usage: “experience is their main asset”....
Striving for equality
Right now, is a great and important time in history to do everything possible to help forge a more gender-balanced world. Women have come a long way, yet there's still more to be achieved.
As...
International Dyslexia Learning Solutions Limited (IDLS), based in Lancaster, are delighted to be announced finalists of the Red Rose Awards. IDLS, well acclaimed for their dyslexia intervention IDL Literacy and for...
Maintaining an International Perspective
As someone who was born in 1972, six months before the UK joined the EEC, I have never experienced such uncertainty as we approach the 29th March. However, rest assured...
A recent online survey conducted by MHA Moore and Smalley, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors, revealed that only 42% of business owners understand how Brexit may impact their business. This leaves 58% of...
Recent time off set me thinking about working from home. All my life there’s been an assumption that this was inevitably becoming more common. Technology would allow it, workers wanted it, employers would welcome...
Just before Christmas I arranged a works evening out at Lancaster on Ice. Over thirty of us went skating and we had a fabulous time. Lancaster has an increasing number of exciting new projects and events in the...
Digital Lancashire and Lancaster & Morecambe College present a morning of discussion about Technical education, the new T levels, and developing joint working between Further Education Colleges and Digital SMEs....
In 2017 a 15 year old girl from Lancashire, Megan Lee, passed away as a result of suffering an allergic reaction to a takeaway meal. In response to this tragedy, Lancashire Trading Standards service have developed;...
Happy New year everyone – today, 7th is my first day back in work, full of optimism for the year ahead not to mention the shock of the alarm going off at 5.30! – It’s safe to say this year begins with a certain...
In November 2018, Lancaster & District Chamber of Commerce attended a meeting with the top stakeholders in the area regarding lobbying for Lancaster to be included as a stop on the HS2 route north. HS2 is more...
Morecambe Neighbourhood Plan consultation in conjunction with Morecambe Town Council (MTC).
Which buildings/open spaces are important to you? Do you agree with the suggestion for preserving them?
A list of places in...
As a new year dawns, it’s hard to write a forward-looking piece because in many ways we’ve never been more out of control of the factors that may or may not affect our business environment. So instead I’m going...
Let me start by wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.
What a year 2018 has been – with so much going on at every conceivable level. I hesitate to mention the “B” word, other...
Festive Opening Hours
Please note that the Chamber office will be closed from 12pm on Monday 24th December and will reopen 9am on Wednesday 2nd January 2019.
For any urgent export enquiries on any working days...
This year has flown by and here we are again, almost Christmas.
This is the season to spend never mind anything else and our consumeristic lifestyle goes through the roof.
I’m not going to get into the politics...
