Welcome back from the Think Sandwell team – and happy new year.

We hope you had a good break and that you’re feeling rested and ready to start achieving your business aspirations for 2018.

Our business services landing page is a great place to start – it gives a full list of the services we offer to local businesses. Among the valuable new content we added in 2017 are pages on workplace wellbeing, social value, energy saving and trading legally. Regularly updated too is our page about access to finance, sharing details of grants and funding to help you take your business to the next level.

Please know that we’re always on the lookout for good news stories about Sandwell businesses to share on our news page. Send your media releases and ideas to us and we’ll do what we can.

We’re also keen to hear from businesses who’d like to be involved in #madeinsandwell Monday: read our business profiles to date and find out how to apply.

Finally, if you’re looking to start filling that shiny new 2018 diary, check out our events calendar for listings on seminars, networking events, workshops, trade exhibitions and other useful occasions taking place in the West Midlands.

Here’s to a productive, fulfilling, successful and happy year ahead!

[2018 image courtesy of Supertrooper at freedigitalphotos.net.]