business support

One of the Town Council's priorities is to help create a vibrant local economy where independent businesses thrive. It’s important that Harpenden continues to be a welcoming destination for residents and visitors; a place where people want to spend time, streets are safe and shopping hubs busy.

Harpenden Business Forum

Introduction to Business Mentoring event

We were excited to welcome so many people representing a diverse range of organisations and interests to this informative evening held on 7th July. We are extremely grateful to our partners The Association of Business Mentors, The Harpenden Collective and Hertfordshire Institute of Directors who provided a fascinating insight into Business Mentoring. If you would like to find out more about these organisations you can download the event hand-out here which includes a brief description and contact details for each of them.

Supporting local independent businesses

Maintaining a picturesque town centre, organising popular events and markets, launching exciting engagement initiatives, such as our Business Forum, and running one-off events for local businesses, all help us to achieve our ambition of supporting a strong local economy.. Local businesses may be particularly interested in our monthly Farmers Market and our 4 times a year Sustainability Market. as well as sponsoring our town events.

Marketing your organisation in Harpenden

Local independent businesses are invited to feature in Forum magazine's Independent Business page, this is a good way to promote your business to the wider Harpenden Community. Take a look at the latest issue and email jane.juby@harpenden.gov.uk to find out more. This service is free of charge, you'll need to supply a short article and photograph / logo.

We have produced a short guide to local marketing which we hope is a prompt for organisations wishing to promote their goods and services locally.

Find out about Town Council events and Markets in Harpenden and opportunities to sponsor these.