The SCR Chambers: Barnsley & Rotherham
We’re here to support your business Membership of the Chamber is about supporting your business and helping you to flourish and grow in today’s markets. We welcome all businesses large and small and understand that the needs of businesses can be very different.
How do we steer the recovery in the right direction?
However, together we have also worked collaboratively like we have never seen before. It has required tremendous innovation
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and sacrifices from everyone. Many businesses have had to close or respond to demand for their product or services collapse overnight. Money coming in one day and the next day nothing. As we head toward the end
he last year has created a challenge on a scale that our economy and our businesses have never seen before.
‘The Chamber have engaged
of June, we can now begin to see the result of that hard work and commitment to a concerted public health effort. The number of cases and deaths from the virus are at increasingly low levels compared to the spike earlier in the year. As a result, we can begin to open more and more businesses, all learning to operate in new and different ways. The opportunity this presents us with allows
extensively with businesses over the past few months’
and views with many organisations and our members as to how we can create the maximum benefit from the recovery. We feel that this approach underlines our willingness to listen and collaborate with businesses, local authorities and other organisations to protect and create jobs in our economy. We know that innovation and the willingness to adapt will be the keystone of our economic recovery and we are asking all of you to work with us to create good quality jobs and rise
to this challenge. There are many sectors of business that have a strong over riding impact on the
economy. At the Chamber we want to ensure their objectives are aligned
to create maximum impact on the type of economic recovery that we all want. The way we all approach the next few weeks
us to think about how we steer our economic recovery and if we are to be successful with a sustainable recovery, then no single person, business or organisation will be able to achieve that alone. Our view is that this needs to be a jobs-
focused recovery. The Chamber have engaged extensively with businesses over the past few months, and we will continue to discuss ideas
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and months will determine and set the foundation for how business positions itself to cope with the demands and challenges but working in a different way to how many of us operated pre-Covid. The opportunities that flexible working
present for many employees should be seen in a positive light giving a number of staff the chance to maximise their potential whilst benefiting from an enhanced work life balance
and enabling many businesses to realise the long term benefits of investing in their biggest asset, the people who work for them.
Buy local, support local, keep it local The relaxation of Government guidelines provides an opportunity to invest in ourselves. If we cannot support each other, why should we expect others to do that? At some stage in the near future, public
funding for business will dry up, and Government grant schemes will cease, support from the local council will come to an end and the furlough scheme is due to finish by the autumn, so we have to accept a reliance on publicly funded support, at some stage this year will come to an end. So, the mind set must be that we have to start to learn and adapt to look after ourselves and what better way to do that, than support each other within our own locality and at the very least, across the wider region. While everyone accepts the fact that
working practices and how we operate on a day-to-day basis will change, we also have to understand the way we do business with each other must also modify and adapt to a much more efficient and self-supportive way of working, something that Chambers of Commerce over many years have been encouraging through their established networks which importantly rely on businesses talking to and engaging with each other.
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