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The Automobile Association was created by people like you – keen drivers who just wanted fair treatment.

Not much has changed on that front since June 1905, when four driving enthusiasts banded together in London to form the AA. From day one our goal has been exactly the same: to protect you, the motorist, and put your interests first.

With over 15 million members from the original 90, it's fair to say we've grown a bit; in fact, we're now the UK's largest motoring organisation, still going strong over a century later. From setting up our first motorbike patrols to piloting 'connected cars', we've got a unique history of embracing new technology and innovations to better serve you.

The Polish Investment & Trade Agency is a Polish government agency which supports overseas expansion of Polish exports and promotes Poland as an attractive destination for foreign direct investment. The agency operates a global network of over 55 foreign trade offices across the world. The Foreign Trade Office in London is the first point of contact for UK entrepreneurs interested in either sourcing suppliers or investing in Poland. 

AXA PPP healthcare is just one of the many businesses that form The AXA Group.

The AXA Group provide a wide range of products and services that meet the insurance, protection, savings, retirement and financial planning needs of millions of customers throughout the UK and the rest of the world.

AXA services over 50 million customers throughout the world (individuals and businesses). In total, the AXA Group has approximately 110,000 employees and distributors worldwide, working in around fifty countries.

DHL Express is the global market leader in the international express business, specialising in time and day critical shipments to all corners of the world. The DHL Express network is composed of more than 220 countries and territories and has a global workforce of approximately 100,000 Certified International Specialists.

DHL Express UK supports businesses of all sizes to grow internationally through export. Whether you are a new or experienced international shipper, DHL is here to help. From improving your website’s international appeal, to the intricacies of customs duties and taxes – DHL Express offers support at every stage of the export journey.

Drax Group’s purpose is to enable a zero carbon, lower cost energy future and in 2019 announced a world-leading ambition to be carbon negative by 2030, using bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology.

Drax’s around 3,000 employees operate across three principal areas of activity – electricity generation, electricity sales to business customers and compressed wood pellet production and supply to third parties. For more information visit www.drax.com

By 2020, smartphones will account for two out of every three mobile connections, creating an online community of almost 6 billion people. This will create an incredible opportunity for businesses to engage with customers around the world. Ten years ago, international expansion was beyond the reach of all but the largest or most determined of businesses. Mobile is making the world smaller and more connected than ever. Join us to understand how it allows local business become global and small business become large.

At Facebook, our mission is to give people the power to share and to make the world more open and connected. That includes helping people connect with the businesses they care about.

HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. We serve more than 39 million customers through four global businesses: Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Commercial Banking, Global Banking and Markets, and Global Private Banking. Our network covers 66 countries and territories in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, North America and Latin America.

We aim to be where the growth is, connecting customers to opportunities, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and ultimately helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

Listed on the London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Bermuda stock exchanges, shares in HSBC Holdings plc are held by around 200,000 shareholders in 130 countries and territories.

With the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report indicating gender parity is over 200 years away, there has never been a more important time to keep motivated and #PressforProgress. Movements like #MeToo, #TimesUp and more have fueled a global call-to-action to press forward for gender parity. Celebrated annually on 8 March for well over a century, International Women’s Day (IWD) celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day galvanises action for accelerating women’s equality and belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. IWD is not country, group nor organisation specific. See internationalwomensday.com and support the 2018 #PressforProgress campaign theme.

Indeed is the #1 job site in the world with over 200 million unique visitors every month. Indeed strives to put job seekers first, giving them free access to search for jobs, post resumes, and research companies. Every day, we connect millions of people to new opportunities.

At Indeed, our mission is to help people get jobs. We have more than 6,100 global employees passionately pursuing this purpose and improving the recruitment journey through real stories and data. We foster a collaborative workplace that strives to create the best experience for job seekers.

Hiring the right people can be one of the biggest challenges for SMBs. In partnership The BCC and Indeed have created The Hiring Handbook which can help you succeed in today’s competitive and uncertain recruitment market, covering a wide range of topics including knowing when to hire, successful onboarding and competing with larger companies. Get your free copy today!

Our purpose at Lloyds Banking Group is Helping Britain Prosper.

We are a financial services group focused on retail and commercial customers – with millions of customers in the UK, and a presence in nearly every community.

It is our role to help businesses and individuals, while making a positive contribution to the communities in which we operate.

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) is an international markets infrastructure business. Its diversified global business focuses on capital formation, intellectual property and risk and balance sheet management. LSEG operates an open access model, offering choice and partnership to customers across all of its businesses. The Group can trace its history back to 1698.

The Group operates a broad range of international equity, ETF, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; Borsa Italiana; MTS (Europe’s leading fixed income market); and Turquoise (a pan-European equities MTF). Through its platforms, LSEG offers market participants, including retail investors, institutions and SMEs unrivalled access to Europe’s capital markets.

The Group also plays a vital economic and social role, helping companies access capital – critical for driving innovation, employment and economic prosperity. We do this through markets, including AIM our growth market that has helped over 3,700 companies raise £100 billion over the last 22 years; our thought leadership in the policy landscape; and our continued innovation. This year we celebrated the fifth edition of LSEG’s ‘1000 companies to inspire Britain’ – a landmark report identifying the UK’s most exciting and dynamic growing companies. ELITE is LSEG’s pioneering programme for scale-ups to help them prepare and structure for the next stage of growth and investment. ELITE offers companies access to a vibrant and extensive community of advisers, investors, business leaders and experts.

The most ambitious project of its kind in the country, the Lower Thames Crossing is the largest single road investment scheme in the UK since the M25 was completed more than 30 years ago.

The UK’s longest road tunnel will be built below the River Thames to connect communities in Kent, Thurrock and Essex. It will unlock opportunities and economic growth for the region and the country by offering new connections and more reliable, quicker journeys.

The new road will be 14.5 miles long and will link the A2 and M2 in Kent, with the A13 in Essex and the M25. It will also include two 2.5 mile tunnels below the River Thames. Subject to planning consent, we expect to open the crossing in 2027.

For the last four decades, Moneycorp has led the way in foreign exchange and international payments. We’ve helped thousands of businesses remove the complexity and high fees out of making secure cross-border payments, and we’ve proudly partnered with the BCC in helping British businesses to thrive on the international stage for 11 years.

No matter the challenge, we use our deep expertise to develop innovative strategies for our clients to help them navigate the global payments market with confidence.

At NatWest Group we are guided by our purpose. We champion potential, helping people, families and businesses to thrive.

Because when they thrive, so do we.

Quest is a Leicester based company providing HR, employment and health & safety services to thousands of businesses across the UK. Founded in 1988 and previously known as Qdos, the company rebranded in 2018 and Quest is now part of the Vantage Group of Companies.

We provide HR and health & safety services direct to businesses, both on a retained and an ad hoc basis and with the benefit of some significant points of difference over our competitors, we have established the company as one of the leading service providers in the field. However we also provide advisory services through a wide network of partners. These include the UK Chamber network and Quest are proud to be the exclusive recommended supplier of advisory services by the BCC to the UK network. The scheme has expanded rapidly in recent years and we now have over 42,000 UK members taking advantage of the four services (Chamber HR, Chamber Legal, Chamber H&S and Chamber Tax) that are included in their membership fees. With usage rates increasing every year these services have, for participating Chambers, become the most powerful retention and recruitment weapon they possess.

As part of the Vantage Group we are able to also provide legal and insurance services to our clients and members of our participating partners. This “under one roof” facility is very rare and helps Quest provide the premium quality services for which we have become known.

The RBS group is a large international banking and financial services company. From its headquarters in Edinburgh, the Group serves over 30 million customers in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia.

The brands operate around the globe to provide banking services for individuals, businesses and institutions. They are working hard to make RBS one of the world’s most admired, valuable and stable universal banks.

The Open University is a global leader in higher education able to reach every adult in the United Kingdom - and many others across the world.

In 1969 one ambition changed the world, giving anyone, anywhere the power to learn. Established by the Royal Charter (pdf 235kb) and globally recognised, The Open University has pioneered distance learning for over 50 years, delivering exceptional teaching and outstanding support to students across the UK and the world.

Our mission is to make learning accessible to all, and together we’ve already helped over 2 million students to realise their ambitions.

TSB occupies a unique market position in British retail banking as a UK-only values-led challenger brand with over 200 years of heritage, the capabilities of a large established bank, including comprehensive distribution and product capability, and the high growth potential of a challenger bank.

TSB has over 5 million customers and comprehensive product and distribution capability, including 550 branches. We don't do investment banking, overseas speculation or big corporate finance. We just serve individuals and local business customers – we call it "local banking".

Vodafone - Built for Business

Since 1919, Westfield Health have been at the forefront of keeping people fit and healthy. What matters most to us is providing innovative health cover that works harder for you, while supporting the NHS through our charitable donations.

We’re proud to champion health and wellbeing in the workplace and in our communities and we now provide our harder working health cover to more than 415,000 policyholders – the highest number in our history.

Our hospital treatment insurance and health cash plans, which include a wide range of valuable health and wellbeing services, make healthcare more accessible and affordable for people across the UK.

With an international team of logistics experts, combined with our extensive global network, proactive account management and powerful visibility platform, wta group helps businesses expand their operations internationally with ease, across any trade lane. Our logistics management services are wta group’s core service offering, with experience and innovation derived over our 100-year+ history. Supporting nearly 6,000 customers across 122 countries, with nearly 700 trade lanes, getting goods across the globe – with simplicity and visibility - is what we do best. Further supported by our team of brokers who have strong relationships with the government agencies that manage customs, we help businesses optimise their spending across their entire supply chain.

We help small businesses thrive worldwide.

Xero’s online accounting software connects small business owners with their numbers, their bank, and advisors anytime.