The Chamber works hard to ensure that our members receive excellent value for money. By joining Lanarkshire Chamber of Commerce you are gaining access to the County's most prestigious and active business support organisation.

Membership of Lanarkshire Chamber now includes Chamber Legal Expenses Insurance (giving your business FREE legal cover with Chamber Legal Expenses covering your business with more than £670,000 worth of professional fees and awards each year) and Chamber HR a complementary service to the Legal Expenses Scheme. This means not only will you receive proactive advice through Chamber HR but also reactive insurance to cover the cost of representation and awards in respect of Employment Tribunal claims.  I enclose flyers which explain these services in some detail. Taken together these new benefits are worth a minimum of £475 for the smallest business member – considerably more for larger businesses - adding real value to your Chamber membership. Members are issued with a user name and password to access these services but non-members can find out about what's on offer via the HRwebsite

AFFINITY DEALS

Shawlands Hotel -
10% off the Christmas brochure prices for any chamber member

Special Day Delegate rate of £25 per person (minimum of 8 delegates) during Sept-Nov, inclusive

Main Room Hire, Screen and 1 x flipchart Arrival tea, coffee and Biscuits Mid-morning tea, coffee & Pastries
2 course carvery lunch
Paper & pens, mineral water & mints

Scottish Chambers Telecom -  offers substantial reductions on your telephone bill.

Speedy - 10% Discount on dry-cleaning. Mention when booking that your company is a Chamber member.

Westfield Health - Healthy Staff for a Healthy Business.

Westfield Health are promoting their innovative Forsight Healthcare Plan through the Chamber. Details of the benefits of the scheme are contained in a leaflet available from the Chamber office or for further information contact Westfield direct on 0845 602 1629.   

MAKING BUSINESS BETTER

To sell yourself and your services you have to communicate. That is what Chamber membership offers above all else. The chance to meet both socially and at business functions. Our events range from networking lunches to evening gatherings, business meetings to training seminars.

BUSINESS MENTORING  The mentoring programmes we offer in Lanarkshire are a public / private partnership between Scottish Chambers of Commerce and Scottish Enterprise. The Business Mentoring programme offers three levels of mentoring from online support and Group Mentoring through to High Growth One to One Mentoring.For more details and information regarding eligibility.

Call  01698 426882 or 0845 609 6622 

or Visit WWW.Businessmentoringscotland.co.uk

or e-mail ajohnston@businessmentoringscotland.org  or businessmentoring@lanarkshirechamber.org

DIRECTORIES

All Chamber members receive a FREE listing in the Scottish Chambers of Commerce National Directory. The 2008 Directory was published in October 2008 and was distributed to all Chamber members on our database of members as at 31 March. Any member who joined after that date can pick up Directory from the Chamber office. The 2009 Directory will be available in October this year.

POLICY AND LOBBYING

One of the prime purposes of the Chamber is to lobby Government at all levels on issues that are likely to impact on business competitiveness. The Chamber has regular meetings with MPs, MSPs, MEPs and other key decision makers. In these meetings we aim to ensure that the voice of Lanarkshire's Business Community is clearly heard where it matters.

We work closely with the Scottish Chambers of Commerce on policy issues. SCC Policy is summarised in the attached booklet Delivering for Scotland

Issues which Lanarkshire Chamber is currently dealing with are:-

Public Sector Procurement

Transport Infrastructure

School / Business Partnerships

International Trade Links

Town Centre Regeneration

DISCOUNTS

Members receive discounts whenever we have to charge for events or services (many of our events are free to members).