Festivals Awayday is a day of event producers, and anyone involved with events, coming from all over East Sussex to get together to talk, share ideas and maybe even discuss potential collaborative work.

Ongoing planning delays, plus a raft of additional information needed to obtain a planning consent, together with debt finance costs have impacted prices being paid for sites across the South East, but there is still a development market according to SHW’s Q3 2025 Development Focus.

The South East market is showing strong signs of more national – as well as independent - retailers coming back to the market, according to SHW’s Q3 2025 Retail Focus.

Take up this year across the South East office market has been slow to date, with few transactions happening over 5,000 sq ft, according to SHW’s Q3 2025 South East Office Focus.

The new Director of Small Business Strategy, Ros Wall, alongside Director Paula Crofts for Business Growth, and Deputy Director John Thompson for SME Strategy and Business Growth Service, have launched the UK Government’s new Small Business Plan

The King’s Awards for Enterprise are for outstanding achievement by UK businesse

SHW’s Lease Advisory and Valuation experts examine the legal implications of the proposal, its sectoral impact (office, retail and industrial), and the likely consequences for landlords, tenants and investors.

Nine Sussex school pupils from schools in Lewes and Seaford, including five year 7 students from Seahaven Academy, were rewarded for their hard work this year with a trip out to sea on a crew transfer vessel visiting the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm(1).

Have you or your team achieved something special this year? It’s time to get recognised.

The next Made Smarter business briefing webinar on Thursday 25 September, from 12.30pm – 1.15pm (45 minute duration).

CoworkingCafe’s latest coworking industry report, exploring the current state of the flexible office sector across the UK and Ireland (as of Q2 2025) has shown that Brighton and Hove tops the charts.

It will operate on 4 weekend dates in August and for the whole of the August Bank Holiday weekend.

Brighton Chamber is holding its annual Summit in The Corn Exchange, Brighton.

Brighton & Hove City Council has launched a public consultation in response to the government’s request for proposals on local government reorganisation across Sussex.

The Council, as Licensing Authority, is currently undertaking a public consultation as part of the statutory five-year review of its Statement of Licensing Policy (2026 Revised).

Brighton & Hove City Council want to businesses are correctly awarded discounts. As such, they are undertaking a review on all businesses who are currently in receipt of small business rates relief.

Today, the British Business Bank has published its second annual Impact Report, detailing its performance across the UK over the past year, including the South East of England.

With demand for food support surging during the school summer holidays, FareShare Sussex & Surrey has launched an urgent appeal calling on the public to help tackle holiday hunger across the region.

Businesses across Sussex are being left in limbo due to delays of up to 18 months for their small claims cases to be heard, according to a solicitor from law firm Mayo Wynne Baxter.

Brighton and Sussex law firm directors, Fiona Martin and Cate Searle, have confirmed their firm, martin searle solicitors, will become 100 percent employee owned (EO) on 1 April 2026.

South East businesses accounted for 12% of administrations in the first six months of 2025 – the third highest region in the UK – according to analysis by Sussex law firm Mayo Wynne Baxter.

Brighton’s live music community gets a vibrant new home this July as WaterBear Music Bar opens in a venue rich with musical heritage.

Join BHCC at the Business Pre-Employment Forum aimed at supporting employers at Hove Town Hall

A new working group has been launched with a £100,000 investment from the Newhaven Enterprise Zone (NEZ) to boost tourism and grow the town’s visitor economy, with £50,000 to be delivered over the first 12 months.

Announcing the latest edition of the Future Skills Sussex LSIP newsletter (July 2025), sharing key updates on progress, new insight and upcoming activity.

Calling all South East businesses! Next month, Transport for the South East is hosting the TfSE Business Summit

An aerial inspection of Rampion Offshore Wind Farm’s underground onshore cable route has revealed that evidence of the temporary construction has almost completely disappeared from view, thanks to the successful reinstatement of the land it passes through.

The City Transport Division currently have two live city-wide consultations, that are open until 10 August.

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