Marlow Chamber is pleased to announce that the Town Maps have now been completed and printed and are installed in their locations at Institute Road car park, Riley Road car park and Liston Road car park.

 

These maps provide a plan of Marlow with an index of street names and also positions of relevant local amenities within the town.

 

Many thanks to those involved with the production and to David Watson of dwphotography for providing the photographs. Also thanks to support from Marlow Town Council.

 

Business Link information on the postal strike

Almost 90% of British businesses are worried about how they will be affected by a national postal strike. Issues include delays in fulfilling customer orders and late payment.

To help you minimise disruption to your business Business Link have compiled information about the strike and how you can limit its effect on your business.

 

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?site=210&type=ONEOFFPAGE&itemId=1083519016

 

Bogus Notice of Under-reported Income

In the September newsletter attention was drawn to e-mails bearing an authentic looking HM Revenue & Customs logo advising you that you are eligible to receive a tax refund and inviting you to ‘click here to submit your tax refund request’.

 

There is now a less official looking e-mail in circulation, also purporting to be from HM Revenue & Customs.  This is personally addressed quoting a made up ID reference and headed ‘Issue: Unreported/Underreported Income (Fraud Application)’.  There is an invitation to review your tax statement by clicking on a link.  As with the previous bogus e-mail, you should under no circumstances open the link.  HM Revenue & Customs would never approach such a matter in this way so if you should receive these e-mails they should be forwarded to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

Removal of 14 day concession for rejected Accounts

 

Companies House have explained that the 2006 Companies Act does not include a concession allowing 14 days for accounts which have been rejected to be amended and re-filed before entering a higher penalty band.  The provision in the 1985 Companies Act was not included in the 2006 Companies Act and therefore the former concession ceased on 1^st October 2009.

 

The recommendation is that companies file their accounts well before the deadline so if they should be rejected, any necessary amendments can be made before a penalty is imposed. 

 

Computer retailers come and go but Computer Cavern has been selling and repairing PCs and laptops in Marlow since 1992. Knowledgeable partners demonstrate and advise on the most suitable products for home or business. We offer expertise in resolving problems relating to a single PC, Laptop or multiple machines and supply the latest home and business networking equipment. Through our own facilities we can provide you with a broadband connection, from around £15 per month, (up to 24mbps), host your website and email domains. We are fully focused on recommending, implementing and maintaining computer and networking solutions intended for the small business and home PC user. We have the know-how in the development of cost effective solutions that will make your systems function at optimum efficiency at the lowest possible cost.

 

Some of our services

 

We are experts at removing viruses, and spyware infections. 

 

We sell everything for computers and printers, including software, USB memory sticks, mice, keyboards, paper and ink cartridges. As well as Digital cameras and some LCD TV / Monitors”

 

We can transfer VHS and Cine and Camcorder tapes to DVD.

 

We Hire projectors out at a very reasonable £50 + Vat per day. Check us out before you buy elsewhere.

In House Printing

We are now able to offer Large Format Digital Prints, using the latest state of the art Ultra Chrome Inks, to reproduce excellent quality visuals. All prints are Lightfast Images (up to 75 years in Colour & 200 years in Black & White) We are able to offer Banners, Posters , Digital Photographic Images on Canvas & various photographic Papers. Sizes ranging from 6x4 up to 44”wide, A0+ / B0+

Computer Cavern: Capri House, 9 Dean Street, Marlow, Bucks SL7 3AA
Tel: 01628 891101,

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At our AGM held courtesy of the Crowne Plaza on the 19^th October, I was voted in to be President for another 12 months. The full minutes of the meeting are on the website but it also gave me the opportunity to report back on the last 12 months. As President they have been both enjoyable and challenging, when I took over as President I spoke to many members & non members to get their feedback on the Chamber and to ask what you wanted from the Chamber moving forward, after all the Chamber is a member’s led organisation there to represent its members. The feedback was positive and in general you enjoy and get value from being a member, areas that you wanted to see change were an up to date web site that you could use as a source to gather information on what’s happening locally and Chamber activities, you also wanted to have more communication from the Chamber on what we were doing and local events as well as more opportunity to promote your businesses. The feedback & ideas helped to give me a plan and some of the highlights are:

Executive

Over the last year we have seen some change in the Executive with new members Annie Mulady, Tim Graham, Jon Child, Simon Gibson, Tony Light, Adam Marlow

Vice president

Due to the increase in projects that the Chamber was working on I’m pleased to say that Annie was voted in as Vice President and has been voted in again to continue for another 12 months

Web site

We went to tender with several local web developers and appointed Peter Stagg, our brief to Peter was simple, we wanted members to be able to access information on the Chamber, future & past events & meetings, the executive and an opportunity to promote businesses. We launched the web site earlier this year and are continuingly developing it to meet our member’s needs. One area to look out for in the coming months is a virtual tour of Marlow.

Communication

In the last 12 months this has increased in many ways. We have worked hard to build relationships with local media, we continuingly keep the web site updated with projects that we are working on and earlier this year we started sending out a monthly newsletter (big thanks to Annie)

Monthly Business Meetings

We now have monthly business meetings at different venues such as Dun & Bradstreet, Spinvox, Café in the Park and the next on will be held at Harleyford Golf club on 16^th November. The meetings give us the opportunity to update on local issues, members to promote their businesses and most importantly an opportunity to network together. Each month we have seen the attendance increase and we are currently getting between 40 to 50 members attending

Retailers meeting

Due to the economic downturn and the direct affect it had on the retailers in January we held a meeting for all of the retailers to get together and share their experiences and come up with some positive actions. Out of this we then held a rates revue meeting where we had an independent expert was available to offer advice and guidance

Scarecrow Trail

Out of the retailers meeting we organised a Scarecrow trail to bring people to the town, with a lot of hard work from the executive and the retailers we had the scarecrow trail in July. Agreed by all the event was a great success and the shops & town were busy. Due to the success & positive feedback we will now organise similar events and make the scarecrow trail an annual event.

 

Marlow Experience

Another project to come out of the retailers meeting was the idea to create a brand identity, Tony Light got his thinking/marketing hat on and came up with the Marlow Experience. The idea is not rocket science but at the same time to our knowledge has not been done by any other town. Mulady Solutions held customer service training for the participating businesses who all committed to be courteous, helpful & enjoyable.

 

The Chamber are currently focusing on the Christmas lights (see the article in this newsletter) and the Late Night Shopping event held on the 3^rd December – if you would like to be involved in this family event, please contact any of the executive – contact details can be found on the website