Lambeth Chamber of Commerce

London Southside Chamber of Commerce (LSCC) is here to support its members based or having a business interest in south London to build successful businesses locally and internationally.

In doing so, we also hope to introduce opportunities for our members to champion corporate social responsibility.

LSCC is all about helping your business raise its profile in your local community and further afield, penetrate existing markets and/or enter into new ones. We want to support you by providing the social and business networks that will inspire you to grow and make your business better.

You might be a restaurant owner in Borough Market, a small florist in Clapham or a large accountancy firm in Islington, regardless, LSCC will work hard in creating plenty of networking opportunities for you to talk and meet with potential customers and suppliers at home and abroad.

We are committed to organising events that will appeal to businesses of all sizes and sectors. For example, we run local, informal events such as breakfast meetings for our members to get together to catch up with news as well as international trade missions that give you the chance to have an insight into potential overseas supply bases and markets.

We have excellent links and relationships with local councillors, MPs, other chambers of commerce, business support services and trade organisations both at home and abroad.

LSCC has offices at King William Street (in Central London) and at Streatham Common (in Lambeth).

Gerry MacDonagh, Founder

Gerry MacDonagh, our Founder,  graduated with a Master of Arts degree from Glasgow University. He trained as a teacher of French and History; worked in Greece, France and Libya; then as a lecturer at Lambeth College of Further Education, where I was responsible for industrial liaison and developing and maintaining all the college’s links with commerce and industry.

He formed London Southside Chamber of Commerce in 1989, with the aim of providing support and networking opportunities leading to business growth for our members, who are entrepreneurs and organisations, and also the wider community within which they operate.

Gerry’s specialties include; Networking, Trade Missions, Links with British & overseas Chambers of Commerce, helping members find new business opportunities.

Radiana Vlahova, Exec. Director

Meet our newly appointed Executive Director, Radiana Vlahova, who has graduated from an MBA with the Roehampton University, London back in 2018. While Radiana is originally from Bulgaria, she has been traveling around the world, living and studying business on Corfu island, Greece, she also successfully became a British citizen back in 2012 and is now a Global Business Director in one of the most luxurious hotel chains in the world, managing more than 6,000 hotels.

Radiana is humanitarian, passionate about connecting people, networking and making positive difference in people`s lives. She is keen to inspire the younger generations to focus on education, and provide opportunities for all young business professionals, teaching them to never give up and follow their biggest dreams.

Radiana has been supporting the Chamber since 2019, organising networking events with 100+ attendees as well as trade missions, one of which to Bulgaria, where the local government and media welcomed our members and spoke all about business opportunities and development.

“We are excited to continue Gerry`s legacy and to run the Southside Chamber of Commerce for many generations to come, connecting people and supporting the local economic growth!”, says Radiana in one of her events at the County Hall.