16th April 2026

Black Country Business

Thursday, 16 April 2026 - 29 minutes

Guests in this podcast are Sean Jackson, Pradeep Kaur and Gurpreet Dhillon

Sean Jackson, head of membership at the Black Country Chamber of Commerce, tells us about your chance to take part in this year’s Chamber Awards.

https://www.blackcountrychamber.co.uk/business-awards/submit/

Here’s the link to the British Chamber of Commerce survey on the impact of the war in the Middle East.

https://research.britishchambers.org.uk/survey/selfserve/215e/iran2026?list=203&panelist_hash=fhi6ofh0vjszhypp&campaign_hash=7bec&decLang=english#?

Pradeep Kaur tells us about her business journey to being a photographer and the “Seeds of the Past” exhibition at the University of Wolverhampton.

https://pradeepkaur.com/

Here the link to book for the public events for Seeds of the Past

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seeds-of-the-past-exhibition-public-viewing-session-tickets-1984983791956?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

And Gurpreet Dhillon of Digital-D outlines the importance of focussing on your niche specialism in the Digital Marketing and AI arena.

https://www.digital-d.co.uk/

Links for information, events and funding:

Black Country Chamber of Commerce: https://www.blackcountrychamber.co.uk/events-training/

Business Growth West Midlands: https://www.businessgrowthwestmidlands.org.uk/events/

Access2Business: Access2Business.co.uk

If you're a business in serving people of the Black Country and would like to be featured on the show and podcast, email presenter Chris Allen via chris@wcrfm.com - or find him on Linked In (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-allen-frsa-81030b34/).

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