A two week celebration of local business wrapped up with a lunch at the Boat that Rocks, Portland, on Friday 14th October.
The event was hosted by Andy Cooke, President of the Weymouth & Portland Chamber of Commerce.
The guest list included Heavenly Bump Maternity wear who recently won the Business of the Year Award at the South & West Dorset Open4Business Awards.
Amy-Kate Crane, co-owner of Heavenly Bump said “It was a real surprise winning the top award. My partner Kirsty van Der Goss and I have worked very hard during the past year to grow our on line business, and since joining the Weymouth & Portland Chamber of Commerce and with the help and support of Business Link our business has gone from strength to strength.”
The Government is ending all the regional Business Link services from November 25. At the event Matthew Butcher from WSX Enterprise, the company which has delivered the Business Link service in Dorset, told Chamber members that WSX was determined to fill the gap that would be left.
He said: “The Business Link service in Dorset included advice sessions for company owners, business start-up courses and information seminars.
“We know there is real concern that small and growing firms in particular will now be left without any ready source of face-to face advice and support.
“We need a radical model to ensure that low-cost, valuable and impartial back-up for company owners is still to hand, and at WSX Enterprise we are determined to provide that. We will have more news soon about the services we will be delivering.”
