For over 150 years, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce has supported, connected and represented businesses of all sizes in Sheffield, a vibrant and innovative city. Our vision has always been to make our great city the best place in the UK to start, grow and run a successful and sustainable business.

We take our responsibility to be a strong and thoughtful voice of the business community seriously, but to do this we need our team to be strong and thoughtful too.

For those paying attention, you will have noticed that we recently welcomed our new permanent chief executive Louisa Harrison-Walker and with this appointment, it’s been great to announce that our leadership team is complete.

The Chamber is made up of a community of board members, council members, patrons, and champions. Being a part of this community is where the action is and its where businesspeople from around the region can share their expertise and insight to shape what we have to say on prominent issues impacting the very businesses that they’re a part of.

Decades ago, to be part of a Chamber of Commerce you had to be comfortable with a grey suit and tie, but over the years Sheffield Chamber has drawn together a more diverse range of business leaders and is now far more representative of the wider business community.

We’re excited to celebrate our amazing group of leaders. Following our recent AGM, we’d like to take this opportunity to give thanks to James Needham who has completed their term as chair of the Board and Antony Davis who has completed their term as chair of Council.

Going forward, alongside Louisa, we welcome Rachel Storey as chair of Council and Emma Marshall as chair of the Board with Grace Brierley as Chair of the Nominees Committee and Karen Mosley as Chamber president. What a way to end the year – but there’s still plenty going on as we head into 2023.

We are introducing strategic cabinets to the Chamber to bring together expert voices to discuss vital topics such as transport, health and wellbeing, investment and innovation to encourage real change in the region.

These cabinets will not stand still. They will proactively strive not just to be a place to talk about what’s going on in our region but be a place for action too, driving real change to support business.

There are over 30,000 businesses in the city. We want to ensure every business sees a reason to join our community of members. Being a member of Sheffield Chamber ensures your voice is heard and that we are representing your views. Chamber Council is rapidly becoming the place where business leaders gather to shape the voice of Sheffield’s business community and this isn’t going to stop as we enter the new year.

Join us. You would be more than welcome.

Call us on 0114 201 8888 or send us a message here www.scci.org.uk/contact