Business News

May 24th, 2023

Mental Health Expo 2023

This year the launch of 2023 Worthing Mental Health Awareness event that coincides with World Mental Health Day, 10th October and will be held at the fabulous Rooms on the 1st Floor of The Guildbourne Centre, the morning will be full of useful information and our Keynote speakers will be Breakeven & Gamblers Anonymous, we will be sending out invites to partners but everyone is welcome to join us.
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April 18th, 2023

Businesses, groups and individuals are invited to adopt a planter on Worthing seafront

Would you like to create your own community garden on Worthing seafront?

Worthing Borough Council is offering businesses, community groups, charities and individuals in the area the chance to plant out their own space on the promenade this summer.

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April 3rd, 2023

Worthing’s blueprint for the future gets green light

A blueprint for planning over the next 15 years in Worthing has been given the green light.

The Worthing Local Plan sets out the spatial strategy for the borough and seeks to accommodate new housing and commercial development, balanced against the need to protect and enhance the natural and local environment.

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March 22nd, 2023

Worthing’s financial reserves to be topped up after legal victory

The rainy day reserves of Worthing Borough Council are to be topped up after the success of a long-running legal battle against HMRC.

In 2011, the Council joined other local authorities from across the UK to challenge HMRC’s ruling that it must pay VAT on income from leisure services.

For more than a decade the local authorities, supported by the accountancy firm KPMG, have argued that not only should they not pay VAT on the income, but that they should be allowed to reclaim the amount they had previously paid to HMRC so they could invest it in services instead.

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