Gatwick is a major driver for the local and regional economy, as well as supporting the wider UK economy. It is committed to supporting local businesses and creating new opportunities associated with its local supply chain.ย
Are you a regional small and medium-sized business that wants to work with Gatwick Airport?
Regional small and medium-sized enterprise businesses in certainโฏpostcodes canโฏregister their interest in working with the airport as a supplier.
Note: this is only open to SMEs located in the RH, BN, CR, KT, TN, GU, PO, SM, ME, CT, BR and DA postcodes).
Full details of Gatwick’s procurement policy is available on its website.
Find out how to cut your energy costs, calculate your carbon footprint and get your business to Net Zero with Surrey County Council’s free course and carbon calculator tool.
Sessions are taking place in person throughout Autumn 2024, as well as online availability.
The course will:
- introduce a bit of business context relating to climate change and carbon literacy,
- help you understand where your business’ emissions lay,
- enable you to calculate your business carbon footprint;
- help you become more sustainable, reduce your energy costs and cut your carbon footprint
- help you define your business path to Net Zero, set targets and leverage your efforts to make your business more competitive and your products and services more desirable
- and empower you to adapt and build resilience to address climate change
The business decarbonisation course and carbon calculator tool are available to businesses based in the participating Boroughs of Woking, Guildford, Waverley, Reigate and Banstead, Spelthorne and Surrey Heath.
To book your space and view eligibility criteria visitย the Surrey County Council website.
You may also be interested in a free decarbonisation assessment and access to a decarbonisation loan.
Get help going green with a free decarbonisation assessment from Surrey County Council.
We do a virtual walk around your premises to better understand energy use, limitations, opportunities, as well as getting an overview of your purchases, supply chain and transport usage.
You will then be issued with a personalised report and a list of potential decarbonisation projects for your consideration along with useful links. This should hopefully help inform your decarbonisation journey and help you decide on your future decarbonisation projects.
The assessment will take the form of a 45 minutes to an hour call.
Once complete, you will have the opportunity to access a business decarbinisation loan of up to ยฃ15,000.
There is no obligation to progress any of the potential projects to a loan application.
The business decarbonisation assessment is operated by Surrey County Council and available to small and medium enterprises (SME) and charities located in participating Boroughs of Woking, Guildford, Waverley, Reigate and Banstead, Spelthorne and Surrey Heath.
For full details – including eligibility criteria – visit the Surrey County Council website.
A not-for-profit club with a focus on creating a strong and connected network of investors and presenting them with the best investment propositions from across the UK. The Club do not charge investors to come along and for companies it is free to apply to be in with a chance of pitching at a club event.
StoryFutures is a ยฃ6.4m project funded by AHRCโs โCreative Industries Clusters Programmeโ, unlocks university research for creative industries. StoryFutures give small and medium businesses (SMEs) access to cutting-edge research in narrative, technology, business and audience insight; driving innovative storytelling, exploiting new technologies in Virtual, Augmented, Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence
FSB offers their members a wide range of vital business services including advice, financial expertise, support and a powerful voice heard in government. Their mission is to help smaller businesses achieve their ambitions.
The Surrey branch has a large membership drawn from information and technology businesses, educational support organisations and financial services. They host regular briefings to provide their members with the very latest economic intelligence affecting the local economy, and ensure that the Institute are the key point of reference for directors in the Surrey area.
Gatwick Diamond Business has been at the very centre of the Gatwick Diamond business community for over 70 years. Joining GDB gives members access to a range of business services, from networking events to bespoke advice. There are various membership packages tailored to provide businesses of all sectors and sizes the support they need.
Businesses in the rural areas of Waverley, Guildford and Tandridge can apply for a Rural England Prosperity Fund (REPF) grant.
The minimum grant is ยฃ2,500 and the maximum grant is ยฃ50,000. Grants are up to 50% of the project costs. The programme is financed by Defra as part of the levelling up agenda via the district and borough councils.
The objectives of the grants are to support rural development, jobs, growth and community enterprise.
For full details visit the dedicated page on the Surrey County Council website.
This provides grants to farmers and land managers in the Surrey Hills for one-off projects to make improvements to the natural environment, climate change mitigation, cultural heritage and public access on their land.
Full details are available on the Surrey County Council website.