Newhaven Chamber of Commerce
Working together in business & community
Welcome to the Newhaven Chamber of Commerce
Newhaven Chamber of Commerce is a business-led membership organisation and business networking group run for members by members. Our aim is to support the local business community and economy and to promote our members’ interests through:
Advice
With a permanent office based in Newhaven the Chamber offers up-to-date and independent advice to all it's members as well as information and advice on a variety of subjects.
Networking
The Chamber holds a range of opportunities to network and build business relationships – breakfast and lunch meetings; members’ evenings; sports and social events; training and seminars and many more.
Member Promotion
One of the many benefits of Chamber membership is the opportunity to offer discounts and special promotions through the Member to Member Discounts. The online business directory provides a free listing for all members. In addition, the twice-monthly newsletter carries regular advertising inserts.
Representation
The Chamber represents the local business community on a range of policy making to help make the business voice heard and to challenge policy development that might be detrimental to the trading environment.
Training & Seminars
Regular business support events are held throughout the year on a variety of topics using expert speakers and advisors from both the membership and from other regional organisations.
Accessibility
We wish for all people to have access to our website. Our website is designed with the intention of making the content accessible to the widest range of visitors. To achieve this we adhere to best practices, such as compliance with W3C standards; and by careful reference to the standards set out by other organisations to improve access for everyone.
Standards compliance
Standards compliance is important to us. As part of our Standards compliance efforts, all web pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. The website design is structured to use semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6 tags for subtitles.
Navigation aids
All web pages contain links to home pages, and menu systems are designed in a consistent fashion throughout our website to increase overall access to all of the information that is available.
Links
Many links have title attributes, which describe the link in greater detail. Links are written to make sense out of context. All links linking to web pages within our websites open in the existing window. Some links, linking to external website pages open in new windows.
Fonts
Our website uses font sizes compatible with user specified text size option in visual browsers. Many website visitors with impaired vision need to increase the font size from the default Medium setting to a larger or smaller setting.
Visual design
This website design uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Images
All images used in our website include descriptive ALT attributes and/or TITLE attributes to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers and to give further information on the image.
Latest News & Events
Latest News
NCC Newsletter
Download and read the chamber's latest newsletter here >>
Town Centre Sign for Newhaven >>>
Chamber sponsors Young People's Achievers Award >>>
Poppy Appeal supported and extended >>>
Supporting women in business >>>
What's On
Newhaven Chamber Breakfast Club (Weekly every Wednesday) >>>
Social Networking in Business
(Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn). Presented by Sophie Mahir (Aleptis) & Richard Excell (Excell Design).
Thursday 18th March – Newhaven Enterprise Centre – 6pm. Free to members, £5.00 to non - members. >>>
Health & Safety
Presented by John Lawrence of Tennyson Suite.
Thursday 15th April – Newhaven Enterprise Centre – 6pm.
Free to members, £5.00 non-members. >>>
Newhaven Chamber of Commerce AGM
Tuesday 18th May – Newhaven Enterprise Centre – 6pm.
Invitation/nomination forms will be available at the beginning of April 2010 to all members via the chamber office. >>>
Newhaven Chamber Summer BBQ
Saturday 17th July – Woody’s Bar & Grill – Time TBC. >>>
For further information or to book your place please contact the chamber office on 01273 517544 or office@newhavenchamber.co.uk