East End Trades Guild

Last Friday saw hundreds gather at the historic ‘Actors Church’ St Leonard’s, Shoreditch for our Bastille Day Summer Social. While guests arrived and were ushered to their seats, members and friends were serenaded by the beautiful sounds of ukuleles,

We request the honour of your presence for our Bastille Day Summer Social.

July marks a year since our successful crowdfunding campaign. To celebrate our collective achievements, and with the generous support of our sponsors, we are commissioning local artist

Keynote Speech from Jeremy Corbyn

Prior to the announcement of the election now scheduled to take place on on 8 June 2017, the East End Trades Guild was invited by the Federation of Small Businesses to hear Jeremy Corbyn give a

Since all the hard work on the excellent business rates campaign we most certainly have not been resting on our laurels! March has been jam packed with action and we have our strategy meeting taking place tomorrow. If you would

THANK YOU AND WELL DONE EVERYONE WHO PLAYED AN ACTIVE ROLE SIGNING, SHARING AND PROMOTING OUR PETITION!

In our petition we asked Theresa May and her Cabinet to –

●   Increase the rates relief for small businesses

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FINAL PUSH BEFORE 10 DOWNING STREET ON TUESDAY!

We don’t yet know how many paper signatures we have obtained, but we’re over halfway to 10k online. Let’s give this one last mighty push together before Paul Gardner, Len Maloney and

Please sign and share our petition as widely as possible, here’s the link you need – http://bit.ly/2lfmdKt

Come to our emergency meeting about business rates 24th February , 10am at Hackney House, 25-27 Curtain Road, Hackney, London, EC2A 3LT. Numbers are

There has been a great effort to urge the Chancellor of the Exchequer to take action on London businesses rates. Sadiq Khan, council leaders, the APPG for London and business groups including the EETG have been calling upon Philip Hammond

2016 in review

2016 has been a year that many would rather forget, with division and instability seeming to make the headlines on a daily basis. Yet our Guild has made significant progress despite the challenging climate. While the world around

Congratulations to members on our first East End Independents’ Day!

“The ecosystem here is really exciting, the East End Trades Guild is so exciting. When Krissie talked about it I thought wow, you’ve got all these little islands coming together as