The Business Contact Centre aims to be a single
point of contact for Businesses Dacorum wide. Staffed and
supported by a team of professional people, who will help to
understand the needs of your business, and offer support and
assistance, in all areas of your business to enhance your
competitiveness and increase your success. Dacorum is a
prosperous District with a high proportion of small business and
entrepreneurship, which is vital to offer a wide choice of
employment opportunities for local people. As well as care
for existing Businesses, we work with Regional and County
organisations to attract appropriate new business, as well as
assisting in Start-up Businesses.
A wide range of services is available from the
Business Contact Centre, including Networking opportunities through
various sources, providing a local business voice putting concerns
to the local Strategic Partnership, and providing economic
information from employment levels to house prices. We also
benefit from being in a prime position to liaise with other Dacorum
Council Departments, so we can access planning, environmental
health, commercial work and other issues, with as little red tape
as possible.
Not just a service - a partnership
Every business, no matter how large or small,
can benefit from support and advice from time to time. With
so many options and organisations to choice from, where do you turn
to guarantee you will get the service you need. The Business
Contact Centre is unique, in so far as if we don’t have the
answers, or advice you need, we can signpost you to one of our
Partnership Organisations who will be able to help.
- Wenta - Wenta offer
a comprehensive range of business support services, including
business advisory services to start-up, new and existing businesses
across Hertfordshire
- Learn Direct -
Highly flexible online training, which is available either at the
Business Contact Centre or from any internet-connected PC. Learn
Direct courses are cost effective and range from basic PC skills to
budgets, accounts and team management.
- The Princes
Trust - The Trust helps young people to achieve
their ambitions through the delivery of a wide range of specialist
programmes and support, such as start-up business, using a mentor
programme and grants.
- Herts Chamber
of Commerce and Industry - The Hertfordshire Chamber
of Commerce and Industry is the British Chambers of Commerce
Accredited Chamber for Hertfordshire, working to support a wide
range of businesses and the people who work in them throughout the
county. Through their many contacts HCCI represents and
lobbies on its members behalf and is recognised as a powerful
independent voice for the business community and is committed to
working on behalf of its members. Membership provides a
package of benefits and discounts designed to give value for money
that will enhance your business and includes an active networking
programme with opportunities to raise the profile of its
members.
The Dacorum Branch has recently been re-started to focus on
specific issues in and around the locality, run by business leaders
from Hemel Hempstead and the HCCIs Area Director from West
Herts. For more information, please contact Rachel Boxall,
Area Director West Herts on 07791 611871 or email rachelboxall@hertschamber.com.
- Maylands Partnership - The
Maylands Partnership is a business led 'not for profit' partnership
that combines the aspirations and energies of local employers with
key public sector bodies.
- Business
Link - Business Link services help organisations to
plan and grow in all areas: from people management and development,
to the commercialisation of knowledge, finance, exporting and sales
and marketing.
- Cement
- Cement is an initiative to help disadvantaged
people become self-sufficient, valuable and integrated members of
our local communities. CEMENT seeks to address the skills shortage
within the construction industry. Through CEMENT we hope to find
employers in the construction industry that will train and employ
our candidates, thus allowing them to regain their self-respect,
social and employability skills
- Connect Dacorum
– Connect Dacorum can assist your business with its Corporate
Social Responsibility activities within the local community.
We help companies with Giving a Gift, Financial Donations,
Volunteering including Team Building, The Employment of Disabled
and Disadvantaged Persons and with Environmental Savings
- DGBC - Launched in 1997, the Club helps local companies to
improve their environmental management and performance. Services
include free access to training, business networking, environmental
information and business seminars
To make the first step with the Business
Contact Centre, contact us and we will be happy to visit you at
your business and explain more -
Address:
Civic Centre
Marlowes
Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire
HP1 1HH
Contact: Chris Taylor,
Economic Development and Business Communications Manager
Telephone: 01442 867805
Email: chris.taylor@dacorum.gov.uk