PROTECTION
Professional advice on a wide range of topics including employment disputes, tax and VAT inspections. Access to 24 hour legal and HR advice line, Health & Safety documentation and legal insurance cover.
SAVINGS
Access a range of business discounts offered by other IW Chamber members. Also includes preferential rates for debit and credit card processing as well as AA membership. Legal, HR and Health & Safety products as part of membership are valued at over £1000 of protection.
SUPPORT & INFORMATION
Information, advice and guidance covering business planning and development, access to interest free business loans and how to access overseas markets. Access to training and quality improvement standards.
PROFILE
We provide a range of opportunities for you to increase your profile and to promote your business, products and services, including advertising opportunities, sponsorship, articles in Island Business magazine, access to participate in major Chamber events as well as profile through the IW Chamber’s on-line media channels.
NETWORK
Regular networking meetings to provide you with opportunities to connect with like-minded businesses and potential customers and suppliers.
REPRESENTATION
Make your own views heard on both a local and national level through the IW Chamber. Benefit from having input to local, regional and national economic surveys and campaigns.Island Business News
Cyber attack seminar at CECAMM
Island businesses are being urged to find out how they can protect themselves before, during and after a cyber-attack. Swinton Insurance, ESID, Fusion Insurance, Rothmans and Glanvilles Damant Legal Services are hosting a business breakfast at the new CECAMM centre on...
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Wight BID forum events for Levy Payers
Island tourism businesses are being urged to have their say and help to shape activities for the next 12 months. Visit Isle of Wight will be hosting a series of Wight BID levy discussion forums, to hear – directly from levy payers – how the 2018 £440,000 budget should...
read moreEXPO 2017 Gallery
Thanks to everyone who made EXPO 2017 a great success! Thanks to all of our exhibitors, sponsors and visitors who helped make the event a great day for the Island’s business community. Look out for EXPO coverage in the next issue of Island Business as well as...
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Get set for Expo 2017
The Island’s biggest business-to-business event returns to the Lakeside Park Hotel in Wootton on Wednesday September 13th. Expo 2017, organised by the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce, will see more than 50 businesses exhibiting to hundreds of visitors. Entry is free...
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Red Funnel’s new Red Jet 7 “to inject £7m” into Island economy
Red Funnel has placed an order with Wight Shipyard Ltd in East Cowes for another 41 metre high-speed catamaran which will inject £7m into the Isle of Wight economy and secure 85 highly skilled jobs. The order for Red Jet 7 marks the first major investment in Red...
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Wightlink’s new ferry named Victoria of Wight
Wightlink’s new £30million environmentally friendly car ferry for the Portsmouth-Fishbourne route will be named Victoria of Wight. The name was chosen by a panel of staff who considered 186 suggestions from 73 members of staff. Work is well underway on the new ship at...
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Sponsor an Island hero for Isle of Wight Day
Can your business support Isle of Wight Day? The team behind the event are looking for Island businesses to sponsor Island Heroes. Isle of Wight Day is about joining in as a community, showcasing the Isle of Wight as a great place to live, work and visit. We are in...
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Island businesses back UKSA’s new dinghy fleet for children and young people
Isle of Wight businesses have leant their support to UKSA’s youth development programmes with the sponsorship of five new RS Quba dinghies. The dinghies have been sponsored by Spinlock, Wightfibre, Red Funnel and Barton Estate and will be used by children and...
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TripAdvisor award for Wightlink’s Yarmouth team
Staff on Wightlink’s Lymington-Yarmouth route are celebrating the award of a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence. Wightlink Chief Executive Keith Greenfield presented the shore teams at Lymington and Yarmouth terminals and crew members on board the ferries...
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Island businesses elected to Solent LEP board
Two Isle of Wight business leaders have been elected to the board of the Solent LEP. Kevin George from Red Funnel and Rachael Randall from HTP Apprenticeship College have joined the LEP board of directors after being appointed by member businesses. The Solent LEP...
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- BCC comments on inflation figures for September 2017 October 17, 2017Commenting on the Consumer Price Index for September 2017, published today by the ONS, Suren Thiru, Head of Economics at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said:
- Q3 2017 Quarterly Economic Survey October 13, 2017The British Chambers of Commerce Quarterly Economic Survey (QES) – the UK’s largest and most authoritative private sector business survey, based on more than 7,100 responses from companies in Q3 2017 – shows that despite improvements in the manufacturing sector, the UK economy grew at a muted rate in the third quarter of 2017. In […]
- BCC Quarterly Economic Survey: Manufacturing boost fails to lift UK growth October 13, 2017The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) today (Friday) publishes its Quarterly Economic Survey – the UK’s largest and most authoritative private-sector business survey.
- Adam Marshall: Great global trading nations need great foundations October 12, 2017At his keynote speech at the BCC International Trade Summit, taking place today (Thursday) at The Vox in Birmingham, British Chambers of Commerce Director General Adam Marshall said:
- BCC comments on UK trade statistics for September 2017 October 10, 2017Commenting on the trade statistics for September 2017, released today by the ONS, Suren Thiru, Head of Economics at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said:
- BCC comments on trade and customs white papers October 10, 2017Commenting on the publication of the trade and customs white papers, Anastassia Beliakova, Head of Trade Policy at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said:
- Which firms are most impacted by employment costs? October 10, 2017David Bharier, Business Insight Manager at the British Chambers of Commerce, looks at some of the highlights from our 2017 Workforce Survey.
- BCC comments on Prime Minister’s speech October 4, 2017Commenting on the Prime Minister’s speech, Dr Adam Marshall, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said:
- BCC comments on Chancellor’s speech October 2, 2017Commenting on the Chancellor’s speech at the Conservative Party conference, Adam Marshall, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said:
- Business needs competence, not division, BCC warns Conservatives October 2, 2017The British Chambers of Commerce calls on the Conservative party to demonstrate competence and coherence, as the governing party convenes in Manchester.