Support more businesses to grow and thrive - Dorset Council

 

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Support more businesses to grow and thrive

 

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by JedHBDC on July 17, 2024 at 03:46PM

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Based on: 14 votes

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  • Posted by BeaminsterMe July 24, 2024 at 20:25

    1] Improve bus services to help all getting to and from work.
    2) Improve broadband reliability. Technically we have 4G and have been offered 5G but it’s usually 3G and often less.
    3j (Quick win) set up ‘Dorset hospitability’ 2 day workshops to help the post-pandemic young more swiftly add to the friendly professionalism of the vital tourist industry. The owners are often very busy and have an experience gap in their casual labour recruits. Give the workshop credence in the local star ratings and everyone wins as the businesses and county are not being compared unfavourably to overseas destinations. Just don’t homogenise the recruits - all that is needed is learning café and restaurants need a bit more interaction than dishing food on knees in front of a screen. Local is good when it is also industry-competent.

  • Posted by LindaS July 27, 2024 at 10:24

    Agree with the comments above, talking to our many small hospitality owners, finding and retaining staff is one of their biggest problems, at one time Weymouth College students chose hospitality as a chosen career. Post COVID many of our younger students find interacting with people difficult, preferring to communicate via mobile phones. Having an introduction to hospitality would give them the opportunity to understand the role.
    My grandson can't wait to reach his 16th birthday to follow his siblings and work weekends and after school, his confidence just needs a bit of a boost.
    Having internet we can rely on would help locals and visitors use their phones to scan codes to find information, many people suggest Google which is a useful tool, but may miss local events, information and advice. One area which unfortunately has always been neglected since I moved here in 1992 is from the clock to the stone groyne where little has been invested to encourage people to use and visit this area. The public address system ends at the Pier Bandstand, we have beach huts which remain empty, in Swanage these are rented out daily and weekly, perfect for families and friends to use

  • Posted by Squawky1 July 30, 2024 at 19:47

    Young people do need more help with interacting and social skills. It would help boost business and tourism. We have a tourist industry here and pepolpe need encouraging into kobs and feeling valued once in them. In Austris hospitality is taken very seriously as a career path and the roles within it are valued whereas here work such as waiting tables is not seen as a career. Good waiting staff are worth their weight in gold. As are chefs, receptionists, pool attendants etc.

  • Posted by Kiwi August 08, 2024 at 18:35

    This idea is so 'wide'in concept it us meaningless as it stands. It needs detail added...eg relief from business rates for start ups; developing oppirtunities for business mentoring etc.

  • Posted by residentX August 13, 2024 at 23:59

    Start up grants and training sessions to inform potential new businesses. Love the idea of training young people into hospitality.....

  • Posted by Limpopo29 August 15, 2024 at 16:23

    A great deal of detail is missing. Of course this seems a good idea but there needs to be a clear plan and time frame and of course, it's dependent on funding. There also needs to be a clear definition of sustainable as it's too easy to go down the tourism route only to have crowded roads, unsustainable pop-up campsites and cafes, a lack of affordable homes and damage to the precious ecology of the area that attracts people here in the first place. We need small scale, nimble modern businesses, not ones based on servicing holiday homes. We need to treasure our farming heritage and our relationship with the sea. Importantly, we must not grab short term solutions but build steadily to improve the sovereign wealth of the county in terms of an educated, engaged and curious younger population who have prospects in the county, elsewhere in the country and in the wide big World Out There. And we should be bold enough to do things in a distinctive Dorset way rather than try to copy other places. Everywhere is different.

  • Posted by Limpopo29 August 15, 2024 at 16:25

    More: Larger businesses need to be clean businesses in the right location. (No incinerators, please.)
    Better training at all levels and grants given to businesses to invest in training themselves. Better public transport.

  • Posted by plinn84 August 21, 2024 at 18:07

    Yes pleae - support - the Council must have (or not) experts in supporting businesses. I am not such so lets have these experts ideas, please.

  • Posted by catlover August 30, 2024 at 07:36

    Give grants to businesses to install low carbon technologies. Helps the business to lower their carbon footprint and lowers their energy costs, enabling them to spend their money on expanding and additional staff, including upskilling. Covers two of the priorities - grow the economy and respond to the climate crisis.

  • Posted by BBResponder September 04, 2024 at 17:14

    as long as this is inclusive of all areas and provides equal opportunity for businesses small and large. Better transport and communication (ie FTP) might assist start ups.

    Special attention should be given to help Farming and to support the continued use of the land for food security and mixed farming to meet local need.

    A local fish Market might help fishermen or to revive development in this area.

  • Posted by rajah153 September 11, 2024 at 16:13

    How,about reduce business rates on retail shops, particularly small businesses, to refill empty shops?
    How,about getting a sensible approach to planning decisions. The example of the bakery in Bridport, rendered financially unviable, because of the refusal to allow solar panels on the hidden roof, which overlooked a squalid street scene is a perfect example of official conspiracy in the face of common sense
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