There are numerous benefits to being a member of a forward thinking, progressive, vibrant and thriving Chamber like Weston-super-Mare and District Chamber of Trade and Commerce.

Weston Chamber has grown by 30% in Membership and has seen a 25% jump in revenue in 2008 alone. (Source: Weston Chamber Treasury).

Regardless of whether your trading objectives are local, regional, national or global, Chamber can help you achieve your commercial goals through advice, guidance, support for you and your business throught out the commercial lifecycle from Start-Up, Development, Growth, and well beyond. Many of our Members are highly experienced and have and first hand knowledge of many of the challenges you will face.

Chamber can help you to:

• Create new business opportunities via networking and growing your contact base in person and building personal relationships (it's who you know) at Chamber events, meetings and of course online through the Chamber website.
  
• Obtain new customers/clients and trading partners locally, regionally, nationally or indeed globally.
  
• Save money through Chamber relationships (it's who you know).
  
• Develop your workforce through cost effective training and selection.
  
• Influence your local business climate via Chamber's lobbying and representative interest, interfacing with political and economically influential parties.   

Networking

The recent emergence of the vast plethora of networking breakfast and lunch meetings, is interestingly similar to the long established Chamber gatherings, which have long been regarded as a highly efficient way of making procedable contacts. There is a danger with certain networking groups that they become a pitching dartboard and generally regime-like.

Chamber meetings are all-together more relaxed and informal. Yes, they do have structure, but it makes a refreshing change from the you must do this or do that feeling of Americanised refrerral business 'meat markets'.

Not least of which is the low costs of Chamber membership and the fact that meetings are generally free to attend!

Commercial Pulse

Chamber facilities such as this website and the regular meetings are a superb method of obtaining current data and information on the commerce of the district. The Chamber's officials and members comprise many successful and influential business people, all pushing to develop the regions economy through their own efforts.  

Political Pulse

Many senior Chamber Officials have excellent relationships with key political figures and contacts right up to Westminster. This can often be used to assist Chamber Members, or the community as a whole to have issues addressed and resolved.

Media

Chamber enjoys superb relationships with key local media, which in itself has both the benefits of association for Chamber Members, but also can be utilised to spearhead public awareness and influencing the addressing of key issues. 

Respected Authority

Chamber is undoubtedly acknowledged as a respected voice of authority. Chamber is extremely effective at the behind the scenes influencing, so often required to get things done.

In addition to all the above benefits for members, there are such things as free advertising on the Chamber Website for your business, the benefits of Weston Chamber's close association with Business West and the opportunity to benefit from that indirectly and of course to play your part in the local community and the commercial and economic success of the region.

South West Chmabers of Commerce

For details of Annual Membership Fees for Weston-super-Mare and District Chamber of Trade and Commerce, please click this link.