Festival of Business 2025

The Festival of Business is the premier business event, showcasing and promoting the diverse business community in Hounslow and across west London, enabling our local companies to showcase their products and services, ensuring our pound is spent locally, keeping our economy strong.

Our Eighth Festival of Business is almost here! During the day we will showcase and champion business across the boroughs.

The Chamber exists to support firms, assisting them to grow and create new jobs, while at the same time encouraging new start-ups that innovate and fill the demands of the marketplace. At our Festival of Business, we give local companies a platform to demonstrate their products and services to our local economy.

Our job is to support and be the voice for business in our part of west London. We believe that when businesses are given the necessary space to grow, communities benefit from new jobs, property development and other economic activities that take shape.

The London Borough of Hounslow has a vibrant and diverse population of some 280,000 people and a business community in excess of some 18,000 companies that reflect all aspects of that diversity. London is the biggest economy in the UK and after the City of London and Canary Wharf we are the third largest economy in London. Additionally, our services now cover Ealing and Hammersmith & Fulham to nearly 1m people making the area the equivalent to the UK’s seventh largest city with a GDP of £40bn.

“Thank you for arranging the Festival of Business last week, it was brilliant, I talked to lots of people, made new connections and our CEO was able to join too. He was also really impressed. There was a really good buzz around the event.”

Sam MacAlpine, Geoff Neal Printworks

Keynote speakers

Justin Urquhart Stewart

The red-braced business/ financial commentator.

Cllr Shantanu Rajawat

Leader of Hounslow Council

Cllr Louise Brett

Deputy Leader of Ealing Council

Cllr Qayyum

Cabinet Member, for Enterprise and Skills, Hammersmith & Fulham

Seminars include:

Nauzar Manekshaw of Branduin Business Support

Tactics for Winning New Contracts

• Essence of Bid Writing

• Developing Key Partnerships

• Your Tender Journey

Peter McKenna of WSI

Embrace ChatGPTYour Business Plan in 15 Minutes

The business exhibition will open at 9:30am, with up to 50 stands and there will be a series of seminars running throughout the day.

Date: Friday March 7th, 2025

Time: Breakfast - 8:00am - 9:15am

Exhibition: 9:30am - 4:30pm

Venue: Holiday Inn, Brentford Lock, Commerce Road, Brentford TW8 8GA

Tickets: www.westlondonchambers.org.uk