Business matters

Tower Hamlets - the place for business

Tower Hamlets is emerging as the newest area of growth and opportunity in one of the most dynamic capitals in the world. To ensure local people benefit from the Tower Hamlets success story the council is striving to make the borough a place where businesses of all sizes benefit from growing economic prosperity, regeneration and investment.

How is this achieved?

• By providing a coherent and easy-to-access range of business support and information services, and supporting business networks in Business Matters: Growing your business in Tower Hamlets (pdf 940k)
• By providing an online business funding service: Access an online guide to business funding in Tower Hamlets.
• By facilitating the Tower Hamlets business forum which is a key link between the businesses in Tower Hamlets and the council.
• By producing a local development framework that will guide the development of Tower Hamlets to 2016 and beyond.
• By fostering the successful Skillsmatch scheme where the council acts as a broker between local job seekers and employers with job vacancies.

Useful contacts

• For signposting to business support contact businesssupport@towerhamlets.gov.uk or telephone 020 7364 4958
• For statistical information about Tower Hamlets, read our borough profile.
• For a directory of over 4000 businesses in Docklands and neighbouring areas visit www.docklandsdirectory.com.

If you are seeking a location for a social or business event, visit our interactive website www.londoneastside.co.uk where you can search for venues by capacity, location, layout and style. Using the London Eastside website, you can send just one email enquiry to all your chosen venues to find out about availability, cost and other details – saving you lots of time and phone calls. An A4 ‘Destination Guide’ (PDF) is available online, giving a snapshot of attractions in each area or phone 020 7364 4900 for a hard copy.

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