Business Manifesto 2024 v2 - Flipbook - Page 5
Achievements
Our manifesto is a forward-looking document but it
also provides a timely opportunity to look back and
re昀氀ect on some of our achievements as a Chamber
in the last year:
Being awarded the King’s Award for Enterprise for
Delivery of Policy forum meetings to connect
Promoting Opportunity through social mobility.
member businesses and underpin lobbying and
policy work/campaigns.
Successful delivery of our Business Awards
programme – Shining a light on business success
Ongoing roll out of Local Skills Improvement
and celebrating achievements in 15 award
Plan (LSIP), addressing the training needs of local
categories
businesses and connecting them with training
providers, to shape future training delivery.
Events - Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce
held more than 200 events during 2023, including
Successful delivery of Positive Pathways
Let’s Do Business, Staffordshire’s largest business
programme, empowering members of the refugee
to business expo, which in total were attended by
community to set up and start a new business, here
more than 7,000 delegates.
in Staffordshire.
Launch of our Daily Focus e-newsletter, with
Campaigns to challenge implementation of Clean
circulation figures now in excess of 13,000 covering
Air Zone and bus gate, which would have an
positive new stories from businesses across the
adverse impact on our local business community.
whole of Staffordshire.
Helped more than 1,700 businesses during 2023,
Lead a delegation of 25 member businesses to
with over £1 million of business support delivery
the Houses of Parliament to meet Government
including business start-up, grant support and
ministers.
business growth programmes.
‘Meet the MP’ meetings held with all our local MP –
Helped 350 businesses to export goods with
Connecting businesses and political leaders.
a combined value of £30 million.
Business hustings event on the eve of local Council
elections in Stoke-on- Trent.
