Digital Wales

Digital Wales is the Welsh Government’s strategy to make Wales a truly digital nation by 2020.  The strategy will help to grow the digital economy, improve e-Skills, provide better online public services and deliver faster broadband infrastructure and enhance mobile coverage.

Visit the Digital Wales website here >

Business in Focus

Business in Focus is one of Wales' leading providers of Business Services dedicated to enabling small and medium sized enterprises either to get off to a flying start or, once established, to grow and develop into sustainable and flourishing businesses.  With business centres across South East Wales, Business in Focus provides an 'on your doorstep' support for local businesses.

Visit the Business in Focus here >

Cardiff & Co

Cardiff & Co has been created to help Cardiff realise a new vision of the city, by bringing together local stakeholders and the private sector into a single collaborative agenda to market and promote the city to a national and international audience. The company represents a new approach for the city, a new model of service delivery, based on strong partnership working and funded through a variety of public and private sector sources and commercially generated income.

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Chwarae Teg

Since 1992 Chwarae Teg has worked to support the economic development of women in Wales. This has been achieved by building a strong knowledge based founded on solid research to provide sound advice to government, industry and educators and to deliver projects which support women and change the way we work.

Agile Nation

Chwarae Teg's current European Social Fund and Welsh Government Funded Agile Nation project is helping women gain valuable management and leadership skills to turn their jobs into rewarding careers. The project also supports businesses to help them develop effective diversity and equality strategies that benefit both the business and its employees.

Federation of Small Business

The FSB is non-profit making and non-party political and is the UK's largest campaigning pressure group promoting and protecting the interests of the self-employed and owners of small firms. Formed in 1974, it now has 200,000 members across 33 regions and 194 branches.

Visit the Federation of Small Business Wales website here >

Insitute of Directors in Wales

The Institute of Directors is Europe's largest membership organisation for business leaders. Established in 1903, the IoD has been representing senior level professionals since their Royal Charter in 1906, earning them a trusted reputation as the business network for leadership.  They support over 43,000 members through 44 regional branches across the UK, and an international network that covers six continents.

Visit the Institute of Directors in Wales website here >

South Wales Chamber of Commerce

The South Wales Chamber of Commerce is a modern, innovative, membership-based business support organisation run by local businesses, for local businesses.  They are a local, independent, not-for-profit company, funded by member subscriptions and a long-standing part of a network of national Chambers, quality-accredited by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

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Google Agency Partners

To contribute to a sustainable ecosystem of high-tech innovation in Wales, Google has engaged with a number of Welsh technology agencies.

Bisnet

Bisnet is a free and independent ICT service provided by Caerphilly County Borough Council to help local businesses apply IT solutions both in the office and online.  We provide advice on hardware, software, websites, ecommerce and internet applications.  Bisnet works with a range of local partners including web developers, designers, copywriters, PPC, SEO and social media experts.  Bisnet also manage IT projects specialising in digital business networks.

Visit the Bisnet website here >

Sequence

Sequence is an ideas-driven digital agency with offices in Cardiff and London. Formed in 1995 we have a fifty-five strong team and have been listed in the NMA Top 100 Interactive Agencies list for 2010 and also placed at number 49 in the Design Week Top 100 Consultancies Survey 2011. They specialise in digital and provide strategic, creative and technical services all under one roof. This means that clients benefit not only from our experience in cutting edge and emerging technologies, but also from our creativity, experience and vision.

Visit the Sequence website here >

Spindogs

Spindogs is a specialist web agency made up of a team of 16 highly trained and dedicated technical and creative geniuses. We’ve gone well past the stage of building websites in our back bedrooms. We’re not a design agency playing with the development of websites but we’re definitely not a highly complex (and expensive) IT consultancy that only talks jargon.

Put simply, websites are our business - day in, day out. We design them, we build them and then we work with our clients to get the best return from them. In fact, since we were established in 2004 we have since built over 400 sites.

Visit the Spindogs website here >

Google Local Champions

To make sure that every local business has a chance to get involved with the Getting Welsh Business Online we've enrolled some of the best networked people around Wales. 

Gareth Morgan

Managing Director of Liberty Marketing

www.LibertyMarketing.co.uk

Nigel T Packer

Managing Director at Business for Business Internet Marketing Ltd

www.businessforbusiness.co.uk

Jason Smith

Corporate/commercial Lawyer

www.darwingray.com

Neil Cocker

Entrepreneur, consultant, lazy triathlete

www.dizzyjam.com

Claire Scantlebury

Production Manager at Sequence & Co-Organiser of TEDxCardiff and Ignite Cardiff

www.runninginhighheels.co.uk

Simon Campbell-Davies

Business Development Manager

www.linkedin.com/in/simoncampbelldavies

Chris Jones

Online Business Services, Solutions and Training provider

www.clickbridge.co.uk

Jenni Wardle

Managing Director of Digital Skills Network

www.digitalskillshub.com 

Sara Robinson

Managing Director of Cake Communications

www.cakecommunications.co.uk

Nigel Tidy

Head of WEIC Limited , Enterprise Europe Network – Wales

www.enterpriseeuropewales.org.uk

Wendy Walters

Head of Economic Development for Carmarthenshire county council

www.sirgaerfyrddin.gov.uk

Mathew Lawton

Communications Director, National Theatre Wales

www.nationaltheatrewales.org

Dave Dibble

Managing Director, of Pay Per Click People

www.payperclickpeople.co.uk

Paula Dauncey 

Sales and Marketing Manager, Imaginet

www.imaginet.co.uk

Mike Bailey

Managing Director, The Platinum Marketing Group

www.ThePlatinumMarketingGroup.com

Tom Tribe

Design Manager, Teamworks Design and Marketing

www.teamworksdesign.com

Austin Walters

Business Networking Professional, Internet Marketing Consultant and Entrepreneur

www.austinwalters.co.uk 


If you'd like to get involved:

If you're digital and business savvy, with a history of connecting with local businesses in Wales then drop us a line >