Thanet & East Kent Chamber Limited

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Thanet & East Kent Chamber (TEKC) is powered by local business to represent, support and assist companies and organisations in Thanet and East Kent.

Located in the heart of Thanet, we are the largest business support organisation in the area with extensive contacts to promote local, regional, national and international commercial exchanges.

Regular events with local networking opportunities are designed to boost business for our members and raise awareness of their products and services.

We offer our members free legal advice on employment, litigation, personal injury and general commercial issues as well as free accountancy guidance on tax, VAT, payroll and book-keeping. Free IT and computer advice is also available. Member-to-member discounts and TEKC marketing initiatives serve to raise the profile of members throughout the year.

In liaison with the Dover District Chamber of Commerce, we offer an extended and exclusive coastal marketplace that includes Birchington, Broadstairs, Dover, Folkestone, Hersden, Hythe, Lydd, Margate, Minster, New Romney, Ramsgate, Sandwich and Westgate-on-Sea. Non-members may attend some events.

Click here for a summary of membership fees and an application for membership form. For more information, contact us at the Kent Innovation Centre.

Thanet & East Kent Insider, 14th August 2010

1. How Are We Doing?

This edition of the Thanet & East Kent Insider has a few numbers in it. With many of our members away on holiday and with more muted email correspondence than at other times of the year, we turn our attention to bringing you some hard facts. There is some heartening news on unemployment. Data from the ever excellent team at KCC’s Research & Intelligence Unit reveals that for the second successive month, the year-on-year unemployment figures for Thanet show more wards in the black than in the red; 15 wards show annual falls against just 7 with a rise. A modest annual decrease in unemployment across the district of 1.4% will represent for some a bright light at the end of the tunnel. Residents in Shepway may feel that the light is from a train coming towards them as Folkestone and the surrounding district is again the only area in Kent to show an increase in unemployment in July 2010 compared to the same month last year. Residents of Tunbridge Wells will be polishing their Jaguars with renewed vigour as the district records a massive 18.3% fall in the numbers claiming unemployment benefit, closely followed unsurprisingly by Sevenoaks and Tonbridge & Malling. The unemployment rate for Kent of 3.0% sits exactly halfway between that for the South East at 2.4% and Great Britain as a whole at 3.6%.

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