About Small Business Focus

We're a proactive, not-for-profit organisation where membership is open to all organisations having less than 100 staff within the B&NES area.

We are here to provide a focus for small businesses to work together to represent local small business interests effectively.

Our objectives are to provide you with an opportunity to:

• Represent your interests to relevant local authorities, councillors and MPs
• Network at social and other events where you can meet other members and people of interest
• Secure value added or discounted benefits

Our values are simple but we believe crucial to our success and they are to:

• Create a comfortable, enjoyable, positive & supportive atmosphere in which members grow to understand to trust each other
• Have a culture of contribution, commitment & responsibility & to bring value to membership
• Behave in such a way that we are valued by & attractive to local business
• Improve members businesses by sharing knowledge & learning from others
• Conduct our affairs in a professional, diligent and transparent manner
• Treat other members with the same high standards one expects to receive & to be honest, courteous, approachable & do what is promised.

As a membership organisation we really are run by you, the member, and as such there is an annual membership meeting where you can:

• Consider the annual report and financial statements and give formal approval to the actions of the management committee
• Determine the fees to be paid by members
• Elect and remove the Chairperson, the Treasurer, the Secretary and members of the management committee
• Decide and revise a policies

Day to day business is devolved to the management committee the members of which may only be appointed from members.

See the constitution.