From next Saturday (4
th
July) our hairdressing, hospitality and some leisure businesses will be allowed to reopen safely and churches to be used for public worship also. No doubt many will already be preparing for this and reorganising layouts to take account of the one metre plus social distancing arrangements and other new rules.
The Artisan Market reopens in Leatherhead today, and the markets in Dorking and Leatherhead are open for business on their usual days weekly. Please support our local businesses and markets as best you can!
Here is a link to the
MVDC website
where they have listed everything you could want or need for restarting in one place. The different headings lead to the relevant sections of the advice contained on the Gov.uk website. This link is also on the
Home Page
of our website. For those looking for signage, screens etc. Chamber Member
Kall Kwik Leatherhead
has developed a wide range in a number of colour ways. Our videos of the Risk Assessment and Working Safely During Covid-19 and HR Considerations session featured in previous newsletters are still available on our
YouTube channel
and are being added to weekly.
A reminder from MVDC that every business open should have carried out a Risk Assessment and completed and be displaying the blue Staying Covid-19 Secure in 2020
notice
prominently on a door or window.
The Council engaged The Retail Group, retail and consumer management consultants, to run three webinars and provide free 1:1 support sessions for retailers on a first come first served basis. One session remains, on 2nd July - find out more
here
.
If you are looking to claim a Discretionary Grant the deadline in Mole Valley is 30
th
June- details of eligibility for this have been released by MVDC and for
any
business that was ineligible for either of the £10,000 or £25,000 grants it is well worth looking at
here
.
On Wednesday 24
th
June we ha
d
another ‘Virtual Coffee’ -
Restart Your Business Session 5
: Kick-start your Website and Digital Marketing
–
especially in these alternative times
. We were treated to an excellent presentation followed with a Q&A session by Alex Ramsden of
Web Motivation
. The video is available on our
YouTube
channel.
Our next
Virtual Coffee
session on 1st July
will be
Restart Your Business session 6: Get Ahead- Take The Insights Track
, led by Sophie Carr of
Bays Consulting
.
The last few months have been a steep learning curve for everyone. Just as fatigue is setting in, it’s all change as the high street starts to re-open. Regardless of whether your business operates online, from a shop or a mixture of both now is not a time to second guess how to take your business forwards. Instead carry on learning and join Sophie as she shows you simple approaches to leveraging the full value of the sales data you’ve collected. She’ll remove the fear from data analysis (it certainly doesn’t need a PhD in statistics….) and all the tips will be able to be created in Excel. You’ll leave with practical approaches to understand how data can support your business decisions and the confidence to put them into practice.
Also on July 1st at 6.45 for 7.00pm, Sophie and I will run the next
The Not a Pub Quiz
,
full of fun with questions set by Sophie, who won our first Quiz!
We have re-launched our page
promoting offers
by our Members, so if you have an offer out there or wish to promote something special please do send details to
Kerry-Anne
. We are also now publicising job opportunities for Chamber Members, including
The Grange Centre
, so please let us have any other sits vacant too!
Finally, please do promote the benefits of
joining the Chamber
to your business colleagues and customers. If you have a window which needs one of our posters and a membership sticker do let us know, and we have flyers as well for anyone in a position to deliver some.
