Promote, Support & Protect

Wheathampstead Businesses

Promoting, Protecting and Supporting Local Businesses

Being a member of Wheathampstead Businesses provides the following benefits:

The chance to find out and influence what’s going on locally
Raises the profile of your business locally
Gives the opportunity to network with like-minded business people and gain sales
Gives the opportunity to contribute towards a vibrant and successful local community

Any local business is welcome to join, but priority is given to Wheathampstead based businesses.

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Membership

Joining Wheathampstead Businesses is easy, and membership is open to any local business. You can add your listing for free or get extra benefits if you pay a minimal amount per year.

We provide three levels of membership:

1. WOW membership (free) gives you a listing in our local business directory
2. Standard membership (£25 per year)
3. Premium membership (£50) per year offers exclusive benefits

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Networking

Our networking events are an excellent opportunity to connect with other local businesses. We hold twice monthly meetings which give you the opportunity to talk about your business and raise your profile. You can also pick up tips from interesting and useful speakers on a variety of topics.

Our goal is to provide a platform to meet like-minded businesses to share ideas and use each other’s services to enable your business to grow and ultimately gain more sales.

Join us for our breakfast networking events at 8am on the last Friday of each month, or our lunch networking events on the second Wednesday of the month at 12.30pm.

Everyone is welcome, whether you’re a member or not!

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Protect

We encourage Buy It Locally (otherwise known as BILLY) to support small independent businesses in Wheathampstead.

As a business group we take advantage of our collective voice to act on your behalf to influence local issues, such as parking, CCTV and improvements to areas such as the High Street.

Buy Locally

Support

We regularly work alongside event organisers to ensure that local businesses are featured and included wherever possible. For example, we support community events run by Wheathampstead Parish Council such as Christmas Lights Up, where everyone comes together on the High Street to see the festive lights switched on. Another key event is Village Day, which typically takes place in July and celebrates village life by bringing everyone together for this free event.

We can be found at both of these events and everyone is welcome to come and have a chat with us about how we can support businesses.