Welcome

On 1st October 2006 The Maldon and District Chamber of Commerce was created with the merging of the Maldon Chamber of Commerce and the Burnham on Crouch Chamber of Commerce. The two separate Chambers now have a single but stronger voice to assist businesses in the whole of the Maldon District.

The Maldon district comprises over 36,000 hectares in east Essex covering the area from Little Braxted in the north to Burnham-on-Crouch in the south with Wickham Bishops to the west and enjoys a 60 mile coastline to the East. The area includes the rivers Blackwater and Crouch with their estuaries and associated wildlife and marshlands and is a well known sailing area. The area is unrivalled in it facilities for golf, fishing, cycling and walking.

Maldon, Burnham-on-Crouch, Heybridge, and Southminster are the main centres of population within a principally rural region with a total population of 60,000. The Maldon district enjoys one of the lowest crime rates in the country and with its landscape and rural environment is perceived as a safe and pleasant place to live and work.

The business opportunities are excellent. Very many successful modern growth industries have established or grown here in the past few decades. Clusters of high quality marine, food, leisure and electronic industries have created new and well paid jobs.

The local administrative authority is the Maldon District Council with which the Chamber has close connections. One of the key objectives of the Council is: “To encourage and promote diverse and active local economy renown for its niche manufacturing and service sectors.” The Chamber associates itself with the aims of the council and will take every opportunity for increasing the scope of the local businesses. The district’s towns and villages are administered by two town councils and thirty one parish councils, these bodies hold regular public meetings and their local powers vary. They are independent of the district and county authorities but in practice work closely with them.

The Maldon District Chamber of Commerce is the official voice of business in the Maldon District and as such is consulted on many issues. The strength of the chamber is its members and in turn this strength is to the member’s advantage in belonging to an effective and influential platform for business issues in the district.