My Representative Deputy Lieutenant for the Borough of Hounslow – Paul Kennerley DL – has been in touch to tell me of the impressive way in which you have responded to the pandemic. As a businessman myself, I know it to be an obvious truism that the country will need our commercial engines to be running on full throttle if we are to avoid the current economic situation turning into something far worse. Therefore, your efforts to guide local companies through the maelstrom resulting from Covid-19 – and especially in helping them to set their sights on prospering in the post-pandemic era – are absolutely vital.

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Thank you to you and your team for putting on such a great event yesterday and I was very impressed to see it covered on the news last night. I hope you get some well deserved rest this weekend, best wishes Mark

Congrats to yourself and the team for putting on a great exhibition yesterday, everyone at Airivo thoroughly enjoyed it!

I would like to thank you for your continued support, activities and video conferences during Lockdown, it has all been very useful and informative.I want to specifically mention the mental health seminar which you offered a few days ago which I found especially useful and applies to everyone working from home or on Furlough, I personally identify with it.Few years ago when the company I was working for downsized and almost the whole team lost their jobs including me, I decided then to form my own company and go it alone. It was a great decision so everyone was telling me but the battle I went through to keep mentally healthy was very challenging. My journey was full of worry, anxiety, lack of sleep and mostly the feeling of loneliness, lack of motivation and discipline. I am saying this because I can imagine how many people must feel the same way at the moment, as for me I have been through this previously so I am coping well with the current situation.All the tips given by the speakers were very useful, helpful and supportive. I hope people are following the advice given because we all need to be assured that what we are going through is normal and can be dealt with and turned around to become a positive experience.Stay safe and take care.

Hounslow Chamber of Commerce (HCC) has always been a source of key commercial information across the borough, connecting SME’s ,Globals, Academia, central and local government thereby enabling the entrepreneurial process from all angles and never more so than during this Covid 19 crisis.
HCC have excelled in a way that no Not for Profit organisation should be expected to.
By pulling together a team of willing local experts, at every stage of the Governments rescue packages announcements, the HCC have delivered palatable , practical interpretations straight to my inbox within hours of central governments announcements.
To achieve this, alongside great leadership, basic resources are needed – systems, people, bandwidth , equipment all of which needs funding, via sponsorship , membership fees and grants. I don’t live in Hounslow but have been a member for over 10 years and have shared my covid newsletters with my clients and have held HCC up to the Leader of my own borough council as an exemplar of how a chamber should function.
Many chambers are simply networking vehicles, HCC is very much more and is a vital part of the local economy and their place in the boroughs recovery plan is vital.

Its good to see you are very active with Social media posts. Thank you for keeping us all informed.

Absolutely brilliant. No selling and honest straightforward answers to all the questions. Lots of great information given by the panel. Steve Curran was superb.
Thanks for reading out my question. I was very impressed with the answers and glad that the overall thinking is very different now. I’m looking forward to the bright new world by people embracing the technology.
Looking forward to the next one.