The purpose of the Cradock Business Forum is to provide an environment in which the business community, local government and other organizations, can work in partnership to maintain and enhance the region’s prosperity and to tackle key headline challenges of:
• Workforce developments and skills
• Innovation and sustainability – business development
• Enterprise and competitiveness
• Planning and i
nfrastructure of business
• To represent the entire business community in Cradock for x their mutual benefit.
• To foster economic growth and widen job opportunities;
• To promote the region of cradock as excellent location in which to do x business and invest in; and
• To ensure an effective, intergral link with the Cradock business x community and all agencies supporting it. The Forum achieves this by:
• Encouraging collaboration between the public and private business x support organizations and also among business themselves;
• Providing an authoritative voice for the Cradock business community, x and to lobby on issues of concern to the membership;
• Acting as a consultative body providing dialogue between the x business community, business support organizations and local district x authorities;
• Engaging local business in the broader community through fostering x links with education and skills agencies, and groups outside the x mainstream of economic activity; and
• Promoting the principals of Sustainable Development by protecting x the environment, conserving natural resources, and minimizing waste.
