Business Support
We have a wealth of knowledge and expertise when it comes to supporting you and your business.
The links below will help with practical tips and local support to help your tourism business to grow
Local Support
Guildford
- New free business support service for Guildford Borough - Find out more
- Free Enhanced Membership with Visit Surrey
There is an opportunity to apply for free Enhanced Membership of Visit Surrey through central Government Funding.
Thanks to Guildford Borough Council's UK Share Prosperity Fund, there are 20 free Enhanced Memberships available, which will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis to eligible, bone-fide tourism businesses located within the Borough of Guildford. If successful, your listing will be live by 30 November and will run for one year.
What is the UK Shared Prosperity Fund?
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit the Government website.
Apply
If you would like to apply to benefit from this Fund by way of a free Enhanced Membership for one year on the main website for visitors to Surrey, www.visitsurrey.com, please confirm your interest by emailing website@visitsurrey.com as soon as possible and no later than 30 December 2023.
This is a great opportunity, as the website attracts more than 1 million users every year, predominantly from the UK and London.
What does Enhanced Membership to Visit Surrey offer you?
With its 2.5 million yearly pageviews, Visit Surrey is an exceptionally effective marketing platform. Enhanced Membership gives you the opportunity to:
Feature a dedicated page for your business, with full contact details, website link, text, video, map, and social media. Your page will harness the power of the website, a trusted source of information, ranked highly by search engines.
Upload unlimited events for free on their popular events pages.
Feature on high-traffic inspirational pages across the website: for example family friendly, rainy day ideas or dog friendly.