The second Tonbridge Business Awards took place at the EM Forster theatre last month. Here we reflect on a brilliant night that saw so many fantastic local independent businesses acknowledged and honoured… On Thursday June 26, the EM Forster Theatre at Tonbridge School glowed with pride, laughter and applause as the Tonbridge Business Awards 2025…
Synergee’s Director, Darren Austin, sits down with Eileen Leahy at the chartered accountancy and business specialists’ central Tunbridge Wells headquarters to explain more about the firm’s pioneering financial advisory services Synergee was established in 2007 with the aim of helping everyone from sole traders and private clients to limited companies achieve better financial stability. Offering…
Entrepreneur extraordinaire Dee Airey tells Eileen Leahy about the launch of her specialist business, Construction Professionals HR & Recruitment. In our exclusive interview, she reveals how her four decades-plus experience in this industry has helped her new business to connect top-tier talent with leading businesses in the sector – and the key ways in which…
Local entrepreneur, Oliver Corkery, tells Eileen Leahy all about the evolution of CorkerBrothers, the property and development business he co-runs with his brother Harry – and why they’re determined to do things differently I’ve met Oliver Corkery on a number of occasions and every time I come away from our interviews I‘m always impressed –…
Trowbridge sells contemporary and traditional artworks in a variety of styles, finishes and colours, all of which offer bespoke framing options. The company, whose HQ is in Crowborough, supplies some of the world’s finest hotels, residential and commercial spaces. Eileen Leahy meets its Managing Director Nicola Parkhurst to discover more about this creative business… It’s…
Jane Hodge and Danielle Friend of Create Balance were the first business to feature on our cover when we launched Tunbridge Wells Business Magazine last May. So a year later how has their accountancy firm grown and what are their future plans for it? Eileen Leahy meets the pioneering duo to find out… I first…
Eileen Leahy meets Rob Wheeler of Eridge Green Kitchens to discover more about this successful business which is dedicated to producing the finest quality work in order to enhance your home… Located in a grand corner building, a former Barclays bank no less, and situated right in the heart of Crowborough is Eridge Green Kitchen’s…
Eileen Leahy meets John Elkington, Group Executive Chairman of Penhurst, his son Jack Elkington, who is its Executive Director and the property business’s new Group Head of Business Centres, Daniel Jenkinson. Here they reveal why their premium serviced offices atLonsdale Gate in the heart of Tunbridge Wells are flexible, first class options for companies of…
Your favourite business-focused magazine turns one this month. Here its editor Eileen Leahy looks back on a successful first year of publishing and reveals more about JJL Media, the company behind Tunbridge Wells Business Magazine, and the other services it provides its clients Tunbridge Wells Business Magazine celebrates its first anniversary this month so we…
The Spa Valley Railway has run heritage trains through the High Weald from Tunbridge Wells since 1996 but due to urgent repair works that are needed it requires your fundraising help in order to survive. Eileen Leahy spoke to Richard Burrell who is spearheading the campaign to ensure this popular visitor attraction stays on track……
