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REIDsteel managing director Simon Boyd has been re-elected to the board of Dorset Chamber as a non-executive director. Simon, pictured third left, was among the appointments at the business support organisation’s 2024 annual meeting. He was first elected in 2019. REIDsteel is also a platinum business partner of the Dorset Chamber and is proud to support the organisation in its mission to ‘drive the growth and prosperity of businesses as the county’s leading business support and representative organisation’. The annual meeting was held at the end of the chamber’s highly successful 75th anniversary year, which included its Dorset Business Festival with the theme of ‘business as a force for good’. Tony Brown, of Y-Not Finance, was elected for a second term as president and Gareth Sherwood, chief executive of YMCA Bournemouth, was elected as vice-president. Other board appointments at the annual meeting included Caron Khan as past president, Helen Stacey as chair of the council of ambassadors, Matthew Fretten as honorary solicitor, Lesley Fox as honorary treasurer, Future Leaders Forum chair Toni Taylor along with Simon Boyd, Nicky Busst, Lesley Keets and Gail Polkinghorne as non-executive directors. Dorset Chamber, with nearly 700 members representing 37,000 employees, is the county’s leading business support organisation and its voice of business.  It is the only chamber in the county accredited to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). (Picture: Dorset Chamber)