 The Mayor of Newham, Rokhsana Fiaz,
invites you to join one of the Council's budget summits.
Please click one of the links below to book your place:
We hope to see you at one of these important events.
Newham Council is committed to making the Budget Summit fully inclusive for our diverse community. Please tell us if you require any adjustments to participate.
If you have any questions, please contact events@newham.gov.uk
To find out more about our Draft Budget Proposals:
Sustainable Transport Strategy
Our colleagues in Planning & Development are working on a boroughwide Sustainable Transport Strategy to help with the delivery of environmentally friendly transport schemes.
This is an opportunity for you to tell them what you think as they take a closer look that will inform the strategy at each of the vital transport-related issues that will inform it.
This survey is intended for anyone who represents a business or employer in Newham. If you are also a Newham resident, or work or travel in the borough, then you can complete our separate set of survey questions for these groups which can be accessed here.
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and as a thank you from Planning & Development you can enter a prize draw for one of three prizes of £100 shopping vouchers. The survey closes on 8 January 2023.
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We’re looking for more catering suppliers
The Council wants to expand its Food Business Directory list of approved catering suppliers for the smaller events which we organise.
To be considered, caterers must:
- Be based in Newham.
- Pay the London Living Wage to all staff (currently £11.05 and increasing to £11.95 in May 2023).
- Have a Food Standards Agency four or five star rating.
- Offer high quality food which is healthy and sustainable.
- Invest in skills training for themselves and their staff.
If you meet all these criteria, please apply:
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Need to be more digitally competitive?
We have partnered with Newham College to launch a new programme that will support 550 SMEs in the borough to capitalise on emerging digital and e-commerce technologies to drive their long-term growth.
Called the Local London E-business programme, it provides a menu of support and training to develop skills and knowledge of digital technology and applications across all sectors.
If you have been trading for a minimum of six months and would like to simply improve your online presence, increase turnover by creating content that converts into actual sales or just want to introduce new efficient CRM technologies that will help you save time and money in the long-term, then this e-business programme is for you. It will give you access to expert digital business advisors who can help you to organically grow your business. The programme will tailor the support and provide sessions that work around your availability.
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Supporting Local Business bidding opens
In Issue 54 we shared information regarding the UK-wide funding allocations for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) and its three investment priorities: Community and Place, Supporting Local Business, People and Skills.
The GLA has now launched its first open and competitive bidding round for this and is inviting bids from organisations wishing to deliver activities under the Supporting Local Business investment priority.
There are eight programmes organisations could apply to support, and these include:
- Innovation.
- Supplier-readiness.
- Supporting SMEs to bridge the digital divide.
- Growing the local, social economy.
- Property advice service for SMEs.
- Low carbon.
- Support for fast growing diverse founders.
- Investment-readiness support for diverse founders/SMEs.
For the Support Local Business prospectus, application form package and associated guidance:
Applicants can apply to deliver one or more of the eight programmes. Applications will close on 13 February at 23:59.
Please be aware that this funding is to deliver large business support projects across the capital. The application process will be time consuming and very competitive, so please take these considerations into account before committing any resources to applying.
Prospectus information event
An online information event for prospective applicants will be held on Monday 16 January at 14:00. If you’re interested:
Raising funding course
Discover how you can raise funding for your business through grants, loans or investments with OneTech’s eight week Funding Readiness programme. OneTech is a community organisation helping to unlock and provide access to opportunities in the tech sector. It starts on 25 January and applications close on 8 January.
For more information:
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