Huntingdonshire Branch

Dates for the diary.....

NEW! The Huntingdonshire Business Fair 2012

Thursday 19 April 11:00 - 16:00 Wood Green, The Animal Charity, Godmanchester

This highly successful business fair is back for 2012, in association with the Federation of Small Businesses, the Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce and sponsored by Purple Haze VA Ltd.

Bookings are now being taken for stand space - download the Business Fair Booking Form (.pdf) or contact Purple Haze on 01638 640031

For information on all forthcoming events around the region please see Diary of Events  

Branch News

FSB Members get inside track on supplying to US Government

Over sixty delegates attended an evening with procurement officers from the US 501st Combat Support Wing, organised by Huntingdonshire Branch which took place at Wood Green.

Businesses came from as far as Lincolnshire and Essex branches and were able to meet procurement staff as well as the liaison officer for RAF Alconbury, which is a procurement hub for bases across the UK and into Europe.

Look out for contract opportunities in the coming months, which we will make available from these web pages.

Pictured: SMSgt Gene Eastman and MSgt Scott Reed, with Chair of FSB Huntingdonshire Branch, Malcolm Lyons (centre)

Procurement Officers demonstrate the US purchasing systems to FSB Members

Improving the A14 - have you responded to the Challenge?

FSB members Malcolm Lyons and Michael Mealing from Huntingdonshire Branch accompanied the Federation's Infrastructure Policy Chair Neil Hoose at a meeting with Department of Transport senior officials last month. The meeting followed pleas from the FSB to engage the business community in options for improving the notoriously congested route.

DfT asked the FSB to remind businesses that there is still time to give views and ideas on A14 improvements. A £20mn programme of measures is planned between Ellington and Fen Ditton to be delivered over the next two years. As any business using that stretch regularly will know however, much longer term solutions will be required to provide capacity and assist economic recovery.

The FSB, along with local authorities, the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership and the Chambers of Commerce, will continue to make sure the Government considers the A14 as a significant priority.