MP launches new business website

19th February 2011
MP launches new business website

Local MP, Gordon Henderson, launched his new Sittingbourne and Sheppey Business Link website on 11th February 2011 at the Kent Science Park.

The Sittingbourne and Sheppey Business Link (www.blinkss.co.uk), designed by Mr Henderson’s Senior Caseworker, Jess McMahon, is the first business website to be set up by an MP in the UK. The website, which is free to use has been set up to:

Address common problems facing businesses.
Ensure that business owners who register with the website have a direct and immediate means of contacting their MP to ask questions or seek advice.
Allow business owners to access business news, local and national government contracts available, information on training and skills and much more.

Mr Henderson will also be hosting informal business breakfasts for local business owners. The next business breakfast will be held on 25th February 2011 at the Abbey Hotel, Minster-on-Sea, and will be dedicated to discussing holiday park occupancy and changes to the Park Homes Act although other topics will be covered. Bookings can be made by visiting the website.

Mr Henderson said,

“Over the next five years one of my top priorities will be to help local companies get through the tough economic challenge that our country faces. As and when the economic climate improves, I want those businesses to be better placed to expand and provide the extra jobs our people need.

“One of the ways in which I can achieve that goal is by ensuring that local businessmen and women have easy access to advice and are able to get quick answers to any questions they might have about Government policy.

“As a first step I have set up this Sittingbourne and Sheppey Business Link website to provide the local business community in Sittingbourne and Sheppey with a direct line to me, their Member of Parliament.”