The Festive Fayre in Addlestone on 25 November marked not only the traditional turning on of the Christmas lights but also the first ever food market in the town centre. The market traders were unsure of what to expect, but they were met with a great reception and by the end of the day, were all sold out. The town centre was bustling and high street businesses also had a great trading day.

The Fayre was developed by the Addlestone Town Team, a partnership between Runneymede Borough Council, town centre businesses and stakeholders, focused on improving the vitality and vibrancy of the town centre.

For more information about how the council and businesses are working together to support Addlestone, Egham and Chertsey town centres contact [email protected]

Join like-minded business leaders in solving shared challenges and identifying new opportunities with our free Peer Network Programme. Our programme offers the opportunity to grow your business through a series of collaborative, confidential and inclusive workshops in small groups of other business leaders. Led by an experienced facilitator, your group will meet regularly over a 12 month period.

Wednesday 13 December

⏰11:00am-1:00pm

The latest Surrey Cyber Security Cluster event was hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London on 30 November. The highlights were two exceptional presentations on the complexities and solutions to UAV swarm deconfliction, and an overview of the state of self-driving and driver-assisted vehicles on UK roads.

If you work in Cyber Security or want to keep up to date with the latest technologies and meet other experts and tech enthusiasts, you need to join the Surrey Cyber Security Cluster.

Over the last six months, Runnymede Borough Council has collected views from businesses to understand how we can work together to tackle climate change and improve our local environment.

This feedback has helped prepare a draft Climate Change Action Plan, which includes around 70 actions to reduce Council and borough-wide greenhouse gas emissions. We would now like to hear your views to help further develop and finalise the Action Plan.

Many businesses are wanting and needing to do more work in diversity, equity & inclusion. The challenge is often where and how to start

This 90 minute interactive training session, will introduce you to some of the key principles that underpin diversity, equity & inclusion and share with you a framework and some ideas for taking your business to the next stage.

Tuesday 6 February

⏰ 09:30am - 11:00am

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