Blueprinting the Future Business Connect Talks to a Local Firm at the Vanguard of UK Product Development
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keighley business connectThe Keighley Business Club Magazine Blueprinting the Future Business Connect talks to a local firm at the vanguard of UK product development Get Social How social media is helping Issue #03 reach new customers SUMMER 2018 this issue KWVR is 50 q LOCAL BUSINESS NEWS 4 The iconic railway celebrates q DIGITAL FUNDING 8 reaching its half century q MEMBER ADVICE 16 q BUSINESS DIRECTORY 17 2 KEIGHLEY BUSINESS CONNECT SUMMER 2018 KEIGHLEY BUSINESS CONNECT SUMMER 2018 3 contents keighley business connectThe Keighley Business Club Magazine from the chairman PUBLISHER Keighley BID EDITORIAL Welcome to Business Connect Editor: Tim Hoggarth Phone: 01535 618085 [email protected] ello and welcome to our third edition of DESIGN Keighley Connect. Inside this magazine, CWJ Media you’ll find a wide range of content, from PHOTOGRAPHY H Ian Dixon local business news to advice and tips from Our Business Club has gone from strength Bob Smith Chris Jones businesses and our usual directory at the back. to strength with regular events being held, and 2017 was a really busy year for the BID, we’ve brought in big names from the financial PRINT Cougar Print with monthly events and our bi-annual sector as well as the government, to help GENERAL ENQUIRIES Independents’ Campaign, that highlights the answer questions on business banking, the Postal Address wealth of small and unique, independent economy and any local projects coming up. 68B North Street 06 Keighley BD21 3RY 04 businesses, right here in the centre of Keighley. To find out more about the BID and what it West Yorkshire does, please visit: www.discoverkeighley.co.uk Phone: 01535 618085 featured [email protected] 10 discoverkeighley.co.uk ABOUT KEIGHLEY BID Awards preview Graham Benn 04 The Keighley BID (Business 06 Social media tips Chairman, Keighley BID Improvement District) is an organisation set up to manage 09 Apprenticeship advice the funding and projects contained within the Keighley 10 The product developers BID Business Plan 2015 – 2020. 12 KWVR celebrations One of the major components of this plan is ‘Backing Business’, 15 Bus fleet launch and with this aim we founded the Keighley Business Club in 2016 to support professional from the BID team service industries in the town and provide networking opportunities with companies t doesn’t seem like two minutes since our last across the region. edition of Keighley Connect but so much has Ihappened in that space of time. We’ve held our monthly events, including the Christmas lights switch on by Coronation Street star, Antony Cotton. We’ve helped save our BID members over £54,000 through our business 15 savings scheme. We’ve also held a number of business club events, bringing in the likes of MP The Keighley Bid Team (left to right): Tim Hoggarth, Paul Howard John Grogan and Bank of England Agent, Will and Phil Walker regular Holman to give talks on the economy and local As we work to bring ever greater value for government projects. money to our members we are very pleased Chairman’s Statement 03 We are now well into the third year of delivery to bring you this third edition of our Business COPYRIGHT Business News 04 of the plan that all Keighley town centre Connect Magazine highlighting some of the All material appearing in Business Connect Magazine Business Advice Column 16 businesses voted for in late 2015. In that time splendid businesses we have in Keighley. is copyright unless otherwise stated or it may rest with the Business Directory 17 we have seen new Christmas lighting, a whole Once again I would like to thank our board of provider of the supplied material. host of events, new signage, much increased management and team at the Keighley BID Business Connect Magazine takes all care to ensure marketing and promotion and of course a office for all their hard work as well as the information is correct at time of printing, but the publisher number of networking events and activities contributors to this edition. accepts no responsibility or aimed at the office and professional sector in Paul Howard liability for the accuracy of any information contained in 12 Keighley town centre. BID Manager the text. 4 KEIGHLEY BUSINESS CONNECT SUMMER 2018 KEIGHLEY BUSINESS CONNECT SUMMER 2018 5 connections Keighley & Airedale Direct Approach for noticeboard Business Awards 2018 New Keighley BID noticeboard South Pennines he Keighley & Airedale Business Members DM Print Regular Meet TAwards are again set to take place LEADER Grants at Victoria Hall, Keighley with this year’s Ups for Nextgen event on Friday 29th June 2018. Business Group The annual awards were created to showcase the success and achievements made by businesses in Keighley and District. This year’s event is again being sponsored by the Keighley Business Club, backed by Keighley BID. Categories of awards include: New Business of the Year; SME Business of the Year; Independent Retailer of it has not been easy choosing winners the Year; Manufacturer/Engineering with such fantastic businesses up and Business of the Year; Financial/Legal down the Aire Valley entering. Keighley BID is helping to support Services Business of the Year; Business the next generation of Keighley Person of the Year; and Business of the The awards ceremony is a well attended business people with the launch of The South Pennines LEADER Year Award. black-tie event. If you would like to find out the Keighley Young Professionals programme offers grants to small The judging for the 2018 awards has more please visit Networking Group – the brainchild and medium sized rural businesses, now taken place and the organisers say www.keighleybusinessawards.co.uk of three business people from Stirk covering a wide area that includes DM Print Directors Vanessa Kemp, Tony Kemp, Joanne Wade, Trevor Speight and Noelienne McColgan. Lambert Chartered Accountants Keighley, Ilkley and Silsden (see and AWB Charlesworth Solicitors. inset map above). From an inaugural event held at As a delivery mechanism New Shop a Sign of the Times M Print recently joined Keighley platform, Hello Market, for clients to the Lord Rodney in early December, for funding from the Rural BID as a voluntary member and produce professional, personalised, this group of professionals Development Programme another Shopify ecommerce website for Dsay it just makes sense for the mailing campaigns that are the printed are taking forward their plans for England (RDPE), LEADER a local business, The Original Metal Sign town to work together – the wrong side and posted. for regular social and formal promotes integrated “bottom up”, Company. The firm was established 30 of the bypass or not! Described in simple terms as networking with two events community-led delivery as part of years ago and design and produce an DM Print is a successful business that “Moonpig.com for businesses” the already under their belt and many the RDPE funding. extensive range of wall art and unique has been based in Keighley since 1978. company say it is ideal for small, more in the planning stages. The acronym ‘LEADER’ derives gifts that are designed and hand- Operating from a purpose-built facility medium or large businesses over a wide Keighley Young Professionals from the French words ‘Liaison finished on-site in Keighley. with over 50 valued staff members, the range of different sectors. For example, club is open to all professionals Entre Actions de Développement de Robin Milsted, Managing Director of company has direct mail knowledge estate agents, automotive, and leisure aged 18 to 35 from Keighley and l’Économique Rurale’, which means The Original Metal Sign Company says: that spans over many years. industries for example are using Hello the Aire Valley. Members are ‘Links between the rural economy “Selecting an agency that blended the As the company has grown and Market with great success. With new invited to join forces and push for a and development actions’. creativity and ecommerce skills we developed over time they have become data cleansing and mail sort features, strong future for the local business Nicola Hardeman and Robin Milsted of The Original LEADER provide grants for Metal Sign Company with Tom Gatenby (centre) of needed was no small task. established experts in personalised the platform is unique in the UK Market community. projects which create jobs and Squashed Pixel “Appointing Squashed Pixel not only direct mail print, with both litho and – and it is Yorkshire born and bred! economic growth in farming, fulfilled this criteria, it also gave us the digital printers carrying out an array of For more details please contact: forestry and rural services, tourism ocal web design agency Squashed opportunity to support local business. specialised tasks. DM Print is offering Keighley BID members Christopher Cooper at: and cultural and heritage activities. LPixel has helped over 600 businesses The added bonus for us is that the Core to the company’s philosophy is a 2-hour free workshop to discover how [email protected] The organistaion is accepting sell more online and in-store. The team at Squashed Pixel are on hand to the belief that well designed, cleverly direct marketing really delivers results. Charlotte Gooch at: new applications for funding until Shopify ecommerce platform experts offer face-to-face training and support targeted, and personalised direct-mail This will include a hands-on demo of Hello [email protected] 20th August 2018. develop client-specific web and digital whenever we need it.” items significantly increase interest and Market. Please contact Dale Brett on Richard Stratton at: marketing solutions that enable response. As an extension of that idea 01535 683443. www.doingmore.co.uk [email protected] For more information visit customers to grow their business.