Contents From the Editor......................... 4 Director Discusses Economic Strategy.................................... 4 Chamber Elects New President... 5 Major Development for Kirkintilloch............................... 5 News in Brief.......................... 6-8
Photo courtesy of Green Highlander Images.
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Responsib’ALL Day of Action East Dunbartonshire Business Survey Low Carbon Skills Funding Launch New Your Radio MD Funding for Recruitment and E-Commerce European Circuits Secures Major Contract Tissue Solutions Strengthens Team
Maid of the Loch..................... 13 The Journey Rewarded........ 14-17
‘PEOPLE Make Glasgow’ has been revealed as the new slogan for the city. While we may not have the marketing budget of our neighbours, we do have quality people and it is people who make a chamber of commerce. One of the first things I did when I started up my own legal firm was to join the chamber. I am a commercial lawyer and wanted to become ‘of commerce’ in Dunbartonshire.
Therefore, in the best Hollywood tradition, I am going to get my people to talk to you. Every member will have a chamber director assigned to them. Their job will be to contact you regularly, to tell you about the exciting autumn programme of events we are lining up and about our chamber benefits. They will also listen to your concerns and relay them to the board. We will engage with our members so that they can engage with each other and together our people will make our chamber better.
The chamber now is a far superior commercial offering. Membership of both Scottish and British Chambers of Commerce make us part of one of the largest business organisations in the UK. We have political clout with both the Scottish and UK Governments. We offer great benefits, such as Chamber HR, Chamber Healthcare and a new valuable benefit, exclusively for members, which we will be launching later this year. We also have good connections with both East and West Dunbartonshire Councils and can inform and influence debate at a local level. Where we have fallen down recently, however, is in generating commerce among our members. I firmly believe that people do business with people, and that fostering networks and connections remains the best way to build this up – you can’t get an app for that.
Nautical Theme for Canal Festival......................... 18 Loch Lomond Shores................ 19 Cinema Nights in Jeopardy...... 19 £6.5m for Energy Skills Training.......................... 20 £933,000 for Youth Unemployment............... 20 Love Loch Lomond.............. 22-23 Healthy Staff = Healthy Business... 28 Businesses Want More Referendum Information........... 29 Jolomo Exhibition Coup...... 34-35 Budget Briefing........................ 36 New Members.................... 38-40 Chamber Supremo Visits Dunbartonshire....................... 41 Events Diary....................... 42-43 Cover photo of the Maid of the Loch at Balloch Pier courtesy of the Loch Lomond Steamship Company.
Stewart Rennie President Dunbartonshire Chamber of Commerce www.dunbartonshirechamber.co.uk www.incommerce.biz
Dunbartonshire Chamber of Commerce Whitecrook Business Centre 78 Whitecrook Street, Clydebank G81 1QF. T: 0141 280 0272 F: 01389 750005 E: admin@dunbartonshirechamber.co.uk www.dunbartonshirechamber.co.uk
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