COVID-19
Resources
Webinar: Maximising your ShopAppy membership with free online marketing support
In partnership with marketing agencies Intandem Communications and Pick & Mix Marketing, this webinar will explain how businesses can maximise their membership during, and beyond, lockdown and introduce the programme of support that is going to be available for businesses.
Start-Up Business Basics Series: Show me the money - A Guide to The Funding Options Available to New Businesses
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up with business coach Gareth Allen for a free webinar which will act as a useful primer for new and early stage businesses on the funding options that are available for them now and in the future.
Business Development Series: Find your path - reshape your business for a recession
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up with business coach Gareth Allen to pose some useful questions to ask yourself, and give you some ideas to make changes.
Free webinar: How micro and small business leaders can be key to economic recovery
This free webinar for micro and small businesses provides practical advice and insights on how to navigate and shape the future beyond Covid.
Free webinar: COVID-19 and the workplace - helping you stay safe
This free webinar on Covid-19 and the workplace will look at how to embed behaviours and measures to help everyone work safely.
Free webinar: New funding opportunities for skills training and the Kickstart scheme
This free webinar will clarify the recent government funding schemes for skills training aimed at providing workplace opportunities for young people.
Free webinar: Attracting talent in a virtual recruitment market
This one hour workshop will enable business leaders to better understand the virtual recruitment landscape and maximise the opportunities.
Peer Networks programme
Ambitious businesses in York and North Yorkshire have the opportunity to come together and work collaboratively as part of our new Peer Networks programme.
COVID-19: SME and tourism grant funding
Stage 1 applications are now closed for the SME and Kick-starting tourism grant funding.
Free webinar: Leader series - leading with purpose
This free one-hour webinar will help you with strategies to mean that your team feels connected, can contribute and have a sense of purpose.
Free webinar: Using LinkedIn to expand your network and attract new opportunities
This free webinar explores how to use LinkedIn to promote yourself and your business to attract the clients and opportunities that you want.
Free webinar: Leader series - leading your team into recovery
This free one-hour webinar will help you plan your next steps including bringing back furloughed workers and developing new ways of working.
Articles
Call for local SMEs to benefit from ‘green’ business support
The York & North Yorkshire Partnership (LEP) has today launched a business support programme to help local businesses make significant cost savings, whilst also saving the planet. The Grow Greener programme, funded by the York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub and BEIS, has been specifically developed for SMEs in York and North Yorkshire with the
York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub offer with Too Good to Go gets even better!
To celebrate the start of Circular Yorkshire Month today (2nd Nov), York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub and Too Good to Go have teamed up to offer a great promotion to businesses in the region.
Free platform subscription to help sell your produce online during lockdown
Sign up to ShopAppy is easy. The award-winning digital platform was designed to give small independent businesses a way to operate online and enable consumers to shop locally.
Malton, York, Richmond and Stokesley join ShopAppy
We are delighted to announce that this Saturday 17 October ShopAppy.com is launching in four towns in North Yorkshire – Malton, York, Richmond and Stokesley.
Launch of the NHS Test and Trace App
The NHS Test and Trace app will provide users with local risk information, alert them if they have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive and has a built-in QR scanner to check-in at venues.
New grants announced to boost recovery of small businesses
The government has announced two new grants to support small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) to access specialist advice.
A Greener, Fairer, Stronger future for York & North Yorkshire
York & North Yorkshire’s emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighted in a new report, published today (27).
Free leadership webinars for businesses
Managers are invited to a series of free leadership webinars to help their teams during Covid-19.
Free mentorship scheme for businesses
A free mentorship scheme has been launched to help businesses in our region recover from the impact of Covid-19.
