Business Drop-in ........... a chance to input ideas for employment and commerce

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN FOR THE BELPER AREA  -

INVITATION TO THE DROP-IN FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES

All businesses in the Belper neighbourhood area – from sole traders, the self-employed and those working from home, through small and medium-sized firms to the big companies – and whatever the field of work - are cordially invited to the business drop-in at 

No.28 Community Hall, 

28 Market Place, Belper 

from 11am to 6.30pm on 12^th July

(please note that this replaces the original arrangement of 22^nd June at St. John’s Chapel). 

It is vital that we have your input so we can accurately assess the current and future needs of local firms and focus on what improvements can be made to assist them.  Also, to understand and protect if necessary what already works well for commercial enterprises in the area.

The drop-in will be an opportunity for businesses of all types and sizes to learn more about the neighbourhood plan, talk to us, give your views, see how to access business assistance in the locality, and take the business questionnaire.  It can be completed and handed in at the drop-in or taken away and returned to us by the deadline.  Questionnaires will also be available other than at the business drop-in. 

In a relatively short space of time the local economy and employment patterns have changed beyond recognition, and are still evolving.  If we are to obtain accurate information about the situation now and in the foreseeable future, some of the questions will necessarily be sensitive.  Only the Chairman, the facilitator and those involved in the analysis will have access to the completed questionnaires, but they can be rendered anonymous if preferred.   The same number would be allocated to the front and first pages of the questionnaire and, in those cases, the facilitator would take the front page with the company’s name and contact details and keep it separate and confidential.

If your business is located within the civil parish of Belper (covering Bargate, Belper, Belper Lane End, Blackbrook, Broadholme, Far Laund, Makeney, Milford, Mount Pleasant, Openwoodgate, Whitemoor, and outlying areas) then it is important to you and your enterprise that we obtain accurate information.  We urge you to complete the questionnaire, which will be available at the end of June.