Surrey Chambers of Commerce

Surrey Chambers of Commerce is delighted to have Herrington & Carmichael, Arcom IT, Surrey Advertiser, Menzies, Foxhills Resport & Spa, Services to Business at Guildford College, Woking Borough Council and Foster de Kretser Design Consultants as patrons of Surrey Chambers. Through this unique patronage scheme we can help business growth through the exchange of knowledge, expertise, and experience. For links to our patrons websites, scroll down.

Arcom IT

Arcom IT Ltd is a local business grown global. Established in 1995, Arcom IT now has offices in Gibraltar in addition to those across Sussex and Surrey and positions itself as the IT Department for the South of England. As you would expect from a company with clients across several time zones, Arcom IT offers 24/7 support and expertise in all areas of network solutions from Hardware Sales and Software Development to Broadband Services, Cloud Computing and Telephone Systems. Their impressive list of partnerships including Microsoft Gold Partner, HP Preferred Partner, Citrix Silver Partner and many more, ensuring that Arcom IT offers jargon-free, cutting edge-solutions that work for people, not just computers.

Herrington & Carmichael

Established over 70 years ago and with heritage of 120 years, Herrington & Carmichael have a staff of 80 with over 25 highly qualified legal staff based in offices in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire. Herrington & Carmichael deal with both private and corporate clients offering a wide range of services; matrimonial, employment, wills and administration of estates, house sale and purchase, personal injury and all aspects of commercial and property law.

Surrey Advertiser Ltd

Surrey Advertiser
The Surrey Advertiser is based in Guildford and published by Trinity Mirror Southern, a division of the Trinity Mirror Group and has been the county's leading newspaper since it was established in 1864. The newspaper covers local news, sports, business, jobs and community events.

Surrey Advertiser will be one of our new media partners for Surrey Chambers, helping the local community to remain up to date with current business issues.

Woking Borough Council

Woking Borough Council's vision is 'towards tomorrow today’, which means:
• achieving things and looking to improve
• having a forward-thinking attitude
• building on what is good today, and
• planning and working for the future.

The Council provides a wide range of services and facilities, and to help it use resources in the most effective way it has set itself some priorities. We will focus on four key priority areas for the coming year, as follows:
• decent and affordable housing
• the environment
• health and well-being
• economic development.

Menzies

Menzies originated in Surrey in 1912 and have grown to become the leading Surrey based firm of Chartered Accountants with offices across the county in Woking, Leatherhead and Egham. In recent years they have expanded to London and Hampshire and have maintained their strong commitment to assisting privately owned businesses and individuals. A key strength of their business is size. They are large enough to provide dedicated specialist teams, deep sector knowledge and international alliances, yet small enough to still view individual client relationships of all sizes as their most valuable asset. Menzies will be celebrating a century of doing business in Surrey in 2012.

Services to Business at Guildford College

Services to Business are a dedicated team working closely with employers to make a positive impact on local businesses. They hold an outstanding reputation for commitment and knowledge of what employers want from training programmes and can support organisations in accessing any available funding.

Services to Business are particularly committed to Apprenticeships and last year trained over 500 apprentices in Surrey. Apprenticeships can ensure that your workforce has the practical skills and qualifications your organisation needs now and in the future.
Services to Business can also:
• Design and deliver courses specifically tailored to your industry or individuals requirements
• Train your staff at a time and place to suit you; at your workplace or at the College
• Deliver courses over a timescale to suit you whether intensive short courses, or over a longer period of time leading to a qualification.

Services to Business can recognise specific areas within an organisation that may benefit from training development by offering free organisational needs analysis.

Foxhills Resort & Spa

Situated in a 440 acre estate in Ottershaw, Foxhills is within easy reach of the M25, M3 and Heathrow. Boasting a resort hotel, health spa, golf destination and members club, this is the perfect place for a wedding, conference or family getaway.

No strangers to networking, Foxhills have been running hugely successful events alongside the Chamber for a few years, encouraging their members to the mix with local businesses.

Foster de Kretser Design Consultants

You know that good design is important to your business: it increases sales, opens up new markets, cuts costs and increases customer retention. But how do you know what changes to make? Where do you start?

FdK has a 23-year track record of working with companies in a wide range of industries, and with our expertise and experience we can help you turn your company into a 'design-aware' business so that you can reap those benefits. We will analyse your business and using a mix of external resources and self-help, come up with a plan to suit your needs and help you put it into action.

Take your first step to better business today: call Simon on 01483 243565 or email simon@fdk.co.uk