Shropshire
Branch
MP shows the
Wright way for the FSB
David Wright
MP bought himself closer to the Telford business community, recently, by
listening to and taking up causes from members of the Federation of Small
Businesses at the recent Shropshire branch networking meeting.
On a warm
night at Meeting Point house in Telford, David Wright MP answered questions
from members on VAT, finance, the local council and future policies to see the
country out of recession, there was also discussions on how the Shropshire
business community can become more powerful, and approach the council in
stronger ways.
David took on
board a lot of the comments, offered his view on most and assisted in looking
at ways forward.
Ray
Hickinbottom, membership manager and event organiser for the branch said “we
are a non-political lobbying group for small businesses, and David Wright MP
very kindly offered his services to come and listen to how life is on the shop
floor so to speak, indeed one of our members had a call from the MP in regards
VAT, just as he was about to pose the query in the House of Commons. It is part
of our series of events, our main aim is to bring the issues real people are
experiencing, into sharp focus to the people that need to know, and our thanks
go out to David for making the time to see us.”
The
conversation was free flowing and everybody got to make their point at the
meeting, it was local business owner of a logistics firm and FSB member, Ben
Coates, that posed the VAT question, and he added “I recently spoke to the VAT
office with regards setting up a monthly payment scheme, rather than new
businesses having to find a huge lump sum every 3 months, however this was not
available, when I mentioned it to Mr Wright he seemed to agree that the idea of
enabling new businesses to budget this way, made sense, and of course it would
help with Cash Flow.”
“I wrote to
David as he asked me to, then I received a call three weeks later, with the
question that was to be asked. The MP said he was about to table it and was
outside the chancellor’s office as we spoke. Without the FSB I would feel
isolated, so I have to thank my local branch for offering me the chance to move
my idea forward.”
Ray added,
“Since we met with David, he has invited us to take a group down to parliament
for a tour, and has also booked a committee room so we are able to move
discussions forward, we are not committed to any political party, our ties are
firmly with the local business community who we represent.”
Up and coming
FSB events include:
Monthly
Networking meeting at Meeting Point house, 21st June, 19th
July and the yearly social event, September 20th, venue to be
arranged.
Please feel
free to contact FSB Shropshire on the following:
Ray
Hickinbottom – Membership Manager – 07733 603052
Ben Coates –
Committee member – 07738 715038
Twitter: @fsbshropshire
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Group: FSB Shropshire group
