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OUR PRIVACY POLICYDevon Chamber of Commerce (“the Chamber”) honours the rights of its members, employees and other users’ including website visitors’ right to privacy and data protection. The Chamber is fully committed to complying with the provisions of all applicable Data Protection legislation and regulations such as Data Protection Act and EU GDPR. The Chamber honours the rights of its ...read more

Plymouth Chamber of Commerce and Industry   Guidance notes on the role of a Chamber Board DirectorMay 2018  Chamber Board Directors are responsible for the governance and success of the Chamber. Successful election candidates and co-optees become a Corporate Director, formerly a 288a, and thus assume the full set of director responsibilities as required by Companies House.  The Chamber is ...read more

Crunch Time – Within the Single Market or ……. The House of Lords passed a resolution for keeping an open mind about continued membership of the single market beyond Brexit. They did this because this is the best way of ensuring that trade with Europe remains tariff and barrier free. It also produces the best solution to the Northern Ireland dilemma. This will be considered by the House of Commons ...read more

Organisers of this year’s Devon Chamber Annual Dinner, which will incorporate the Chamber’s Business Awards, have announced today their delight at securing guest after dinner speaker Simon Weston CBE for the event (18 May).  The dinner is taking place on Friday 18th May at the beautiful Moorland Garden Hotel on the edge of Dartmoor, with a cocktail and canapés reception at 7pm, accompanied by ...read more

Apprenticeships   For the last ten years Chambers and others have encouraged  more and more employers to focus their training needs on taking on apprentices. Training providers have also become more and more customer friendly in working with employers and ensuring that training is delivered in a way that best needs the requirements of employers. Recent apprenticeship reforms have put a check to ...read more

Team-i Training - partnering with Devon Chamber of Commerce  Kai Horstmann, leading Exeter Chiefs player and a veteran of over 200 top flight games of rugby, is heading up a brand new series of training courses for business which gives an insight into the teamwork and planning strategies of his career and how they can be applied to the workplace.Devon Chamber of Commerce members is being given ...read more

   News and events BCC EngagementLast week Adam attended the cluster meeting of South West and Wales Chambers of Commerce, and met with Sir John Cunliffe, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. The team also met with Sir Charlie Mayfield, Chair of the John Lewis Partnership. This week the team looks forward to welcoming Chief Executives from the Network at the latest CEO Roundtable in ...read more