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Important announcements and general Business Park news will be regularly posted on this page. The very latest information will also be available in various places around the website and on facebook & twitter.

  • University Awarded Silver for Teaching Excellence

    10 August 2017 10:07 AM | Tracie Davey

    We are thrilled to announce that the University of Chichester has been awarded Silver in the Teaching Excellence

    The Silver award recognises the quality of our teaching and the excellent experience we offer to students. Satisfaction with academic support among BME and disadvataged students is also recognised as a key strength.Framework (TEF). The TEF is the UK Government’s first assessment of teaching excellence in higher education. 
    Read more about the award here


  • Worthing Churches Homeless Upcoming Events

    10 August 2017 9:52 AM | Tracie Davey

    August

    Shoreham Street Collection – Saturday 12th

    Street collection in Shoreham

    September

    Thames Path Challenge – Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th 

    Walk, jog or run 100, 50 or 25km from Putney Bridge to Henley. More than 3,000 challengers will take on the main Thames Path Challenge following England's greatest river. Visit http://www.thamespathchallenge.com/the-main-challenge for more information and to sign up!

    Horsham Quiz Night – Friday 15th

    St John the Evangelist, Horsham. Tickets sold in shops and through office nearer the time. Organised by our Horsham Friends Group.

    Shoreham Quiz Night – Saturday 16th

    St Peter’s Church, Shoreham. Run by our Shoreham Friends Group. Tickets available nearer the time from our charity shops and the office.

    Horsham Flag Day - Saturday 30th

    Street Collection in Horsham. Please get in touch if you would like to help out by collecting on this day!

    October

    Taylor Maid musical evening – Saturday 14th from 7.30pm

    Organised by the Goring Friends Group, held at the Warren Ballroom. Tickets £15.00 available from WCHP charity shops and by calling 01903 680740.


  • Snickers Workwear Discount Event Day

    27 July 2017 10:38 AM | Tracie Davey


  • Latest Rampion Newsletter - Issue 8, Summer 2017

    20 July 2017 9:19 AM | Tracie Davey


    Click here to view the full newsletter...

  • QAHH Assault Course Challenge!

    20 July 2017 9:11 AM | Tracie Davey


  • Worthing's GreenDreams Festival urgently needs you!

    13 July 2017 9:57 AM | Tracie Davey


  • Your round-up of the latest manufacturing news - Tenkay Electronics

    13 July 2017 9:33 AM | Tracie Davey


    Your round-up of the latest manufacturing news

    Tenkay Electronics Ltd

    Volvo's electric shift gives Tesla a shock 

    Volvo has just given Tesla a shock. The Sweden-based carmaker on Wednesday said it will stop producing new gasoline-only engines from 2019 and shift to a variety of hybrid and all-electric models.

    READ MORE

    Investment in digital manufacturing is essential in post-Brexit economy

    Manufacturers across the UK have been tasked with becoming the engine room of the post-Brexit economy. In June, after the General election, the Engineering Employers’ Federation (EEF) asked the government to build a “new industrial future.”

    READ MORE

    Is Blockchain Coming to Manufacturing?

    Wipro launches a number of blockchain-based offerings, four of which are directed at manufacturing to improve process efficiencies and reduce costs.

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    Britain misses out as global manufacturing surges

    British factories were left out of a demand-driven surge in activity across much of Asia and Europe in June, as weakness in sterling failed to translate into export growth, surveys showed.

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    Could Robots Make Small Business Manufacturing a Reality?

    Manufacturing offers opportunities often less known to small business owners. This is because these opportunities aren’t always viable for small businesses with limited resources. That could all be changing though, thanks to some high tech innovations.

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    UK manufacturers say Brexit uncertainty will force them to make cuts

    British manufacturers are fast approaching a “tipping point” where a lack of certainty over the direction of Brexit negotiations will force them to make painful cuts whatever the outcome, they say.

    READ MORE


  • Wellbeing Days at Lancing Business Park

    06 July 2017 1:11 PM | Tracie Davey

    LBP are pleased to announce that in conjunction with Adur & Worthing Councils/West Sussex County Council Wellbeing Health checkups/MOT’s  are taking place

    on Monday 17th July 11am to 3pm.  &  Thursday 20th   11am – 3pm. 
     http://adur-worthing.westsussexwellbeing.org.uk/topics/wellbeing-at-work

    More information next week will be sent out and on the website on how to take advantage of these free sessions and locations, or contact lindastopp@lancingbusinesspark.co.uk if your company is interested in making appointments for your staff.

  • Office space available - Marlborough Road, Lancing Business Park

    06 July 2017 11:25 AM | Tracie Davey

    Office space has become available in Marlborough Road, Lancing Business Park.

    Details: Approx. 400sq/ft self contained, carpeted office. Use of kitchen area and 2/3 car parking spaces. No Business rates to pay. Plenty of on site storage available if required (floor, pallets,  racking or containers/rooms) Fork truck and pallet truck on site. 

    £135.00 per week (£585.00/ month) plus VAT. 

    Please contact Linda Stopp for more information lindastopp@lancingbusinesspark.co.uk 

  • Tim Loughton's Parliamentary Newsletter - June

    06 July 2017 9:57 AM | Tracie Davey

    It has been the most extraordinary last couple of months and clearly the result on June 8th was not the one that the Prime Minister had hoped for when she called a snap election at the beginning of May which seems an eternity ago now. The lack of a majority for the Conservative government has obviously made things a lot more difficult going forward not least in the way we approach the crucial Brexit negotiations.

    As I write a deal has just been done whereby the DUP MPs will vote with Conservative MPs on a ‘confidence and supply’ basis to make sure we have a working government and to restore some stability which is crucial. A number of people have written to me expressing concerns about the nature of some of the DUP’s policy and I have a lot of sympathy with that but as I have written here this is not a coalition agreement as we had with the Lib Dems in 2010 and I would certainly not be supporting anything that meant rowing back on any part of our equality agenda for example. The most important thing is that we have a working government that can get on with the important national and international matters in hand.

    As regards the election campaign I have had many conversations with many constituents subsequently and there is no point trying to gloss over the fact that nationally the Conservative campaign was pretty shambolic and probably the worst one I have been involved in since I started electioneering back in the 1970’s. The launch of our manifesto and particularly the measures on social care which came out of the blue were badly handled if well intentioned. Not surprisingly this alarmed many of our older citizens locally on the doorstep. I am pleased that many of these measures have been dropped and we need to have a much more transparent and grown up debate about sustainable funding of good quality adult social care for example, something that is particularly important in Worthing and Adur.

    I have included a run down on the 27 Bills that were included in the delayed Queen’s Speech here and a link to a short contribution I made in the subsequent Queen’s Speech debate here, where I focussed on fair funding for schools which undoubtedly and unsurprisingly was a major issue in the general election. I have given a separate update on the state of the school funding proposals below following on from the extensive work that I have already been involved in over the last years with Parliamentary colleagues and local heads, teachers, governors and parents.

    As regards the result in East Worthing & Shoreham I am delighted to have been re-elected as your local MP and I am grateful for everyone who voted for me. As always however I am here to represent all the residents of East Worthing & Shoreham whoever you voted for, whether you are old enough to vote or not and whether you actually did. Whilst the Conservative vote increased and was the highest ever since the new constituency was formed in 1997 my majority was significantly reduced on account of a strong rise in the Labour vote and a squeeze on the minority parties, all of whom lost their deposits. The full result was as follows:
     
    Conservative
    Tim Loughton
    25,988 (48.9%)

    Labour
    Sophie Cook
    20,882 (39.3%)

    Liberal Democrat
    Oli Henman
    2,523 (4.7%)

    UKIP
    Mike Glennon
    1,444 (2.7%)

    Green
    Leslie Groves Williams
    1,273 (2.4%)

    National Health Action
    Carl Walker
    575 (1.1%)

    Independent
    Andy Lutwyche
    432 (0.8%)

    Majority: 5,106
    Turnout: 51,673 (70.7%)    

    I congratulate the Labour candidate on her success and thank all the candidates for the respectful and generally good humoured way the campaign was carried out. Obviously it as a very difficult campaign punctuated by the terrible terrorist attacks in Manchester and London after which campaigning was suspended quite rightly. These terrible events were followed shortly after the election by the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, I have published my thoughts on what happened here and below.

    Unfortunately, due to the terrorist attacks, several of the hustings planned for candidates were cancelled and we were not able to cover nearly as much ground knocking on doors as I always like to do. In addition there was a certain level of ‘election fatigue’ as locally we had been knocking on doors since March campaigning for the County Council elections where I am pleased to say that the Conservative candidates won all 8 of the seats across the constituency. The details of your new county councillors are as follows:

    East Worthing
    Roger Oakley     Broadwater
    Bryan Turner     Cissbury
    Elizabeth Sparkes     Sompting & North Lancing
    George Barton     Lancing
    Ann Bridges     South Shoreham
    Kevin Boram     North Shoreham
    Debbie Kennard     Southwick
    Dave Simmons     Subsequently we will be organising a series of neighbourhood meetings where constituents can come drop in and see local councillors and me in their locality over coming months. In addition I will be restarting the ‘Talk to Tim’ public meetings which I held around the constituency in the run up to the EU referendum and which were very well supported. With so much going on around Brexit, parliamentary majorities, public services, school funding, the A27 etc this is an opportunity for people to come along and hear my take on national and local issues and ask any questions informally. They are not intended to be political ‘slanging matches’ and I hope that people will come along and engage in them in the positive spirit in which they are intended. These will be in addition to the regular street surgeries and confidential fortnightly constituency surgeries which will continue most weeks as they have for many years now. All details will be on my website, Facebook page and Twitter.

    I mentioned that the election campaign against the other candidates was held in good humour. However one very unwelcome feature of this campaign was the unprecedented level of gratuitous abuse on social media both nationally and locally. This went well beyond acceptable political discourse and healthy debate on policy. All those who put themselves up for public office are rightly subject to scrutiny and should be challenged but it is never necessary to use the level of vitriol that many of us were subject to just on account of the fact that we stood as Conservative Party candidates. I may disagree with many of my colleagues in Parliament on policy but I never question their right to express their views or their dedication and hard work to do the best thing by their constituents. Alas a few people think they have a God given right to be offensive to an MP. We would not tolerate such treatment of any other public servant so why should politicians be any different?

    I use Twitter and Facebook platforms largely to put out information on what is going on in Westminster or in the constituency and what positions I have taken. When I have time I respond mostly on Facebook but only to those who are constituents and who genuinely want to engage rather than just post abusive remarks and display their own prejudices, and where it is constructive to get a debate going. I do not use Twitter for policy statements which it would be impossible to fit into 140 characters and would always encourage constituents to email me always including their home addresses as I have my time cut out dealing with 91,000 constituents let alone everyone else’s!

    As always please do let me know if there are things not covered here that you would like me to include in future newsletters or indeed on social media. I was grateful to the many people who commented on my newsletter whilst knocking on doors during the election and I am aware that this is a major source of information for a great many of my constituents now.


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