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  Mark - if only it was as simple as saying that. The fact is that you work on many front and try to advance incrementally. Success comes only when you are part of a bigger 'voice' and then you cannot simple define it as 'the Chamber of Commerce got so and so..." The Chamber key successes are in the small things that are major for the businesses concerned. The coffee shops who we helped with a rate review, the start-up helped with advice on a business plan and so on. These things are every-day stuff.
  
  Deal Chamber of Trade, who you mention, have representation on our Board because the Dover Chamber covers the whole Dover District. They serve only the businesses in Deal town, primarily traders, while the District Chamber serves a much broader category of business from Sandwich through to Capel and out to Aylesham. The same kind of advert feature would not work for us the same way though you are right that it is an important initiative for the Deal traders. Hopefully if a funding bid comes through and once our new Dover Town Traders liaison group, chaired by Mike McFarnell, really gets into its stride such a feature for Dover traders might be realistic.

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