Growing
Events
12th October 20229:00 am - 5:00 pmFREE
12 Oct - Harrogate Co-Lab: Business Support Drop-In Session
This free drop-in service based in Harrogate can help answer your questions and direct you to relevant business support, resources and programmes.
13th October 202210:00 am - 11:00 amFREE
13 Oct - Business Scale Up Programme: New Managers Masterclass
Are you a newly promoted or aspiring manager? This free masterclass will explore the secrets to great leadership and successful teams to help you grow into a manager role with confidence.
13th October 20221:00 pm - 2:00 pmFREE
13 Oct - Access to finance: Funding growth - Harrogate Business Support Programme
This seminar will provide you with a summary of all the commercial funding options available to businesses, with detail on how to make your business more attractive to funders.
13th October 202210:00 am - 11:00 amFREE
13 Oct - Access to finance: Funding growth - York Business Support Programme
This seminar will provide you with a summary of all the commercial funding options available to businesses, with detail on how to make your business more attractive to funders.
20th October 202210:00 am - 11:00 amFREE
20 Oct - Business Scale Up Programme: New to Management and Delegation Masterclass
Do you have a team in place but still feel you’re doing everything yourself and constantly taking on more tasks than you should be? This masterclass will help you overcome that overwhelmed feeling and become confident enough to let go, empower and trust your team members.
25th October 202210:00 am - 11:00 amFREE
How much? with GAP Coaching
This workshop will provide guidance on cost based pricing, calculating your costs before deciding an appropriate margin, as well as covering market based pricing asking questions such as: What value do you add? What are you worth? How do you position yourself?
25th October 20221:00 pm - 2:00 pmFREE
How much? with GAP Coaching
This workshop will provide guidance on cost based pricing, calculating your costs before deciding an appropriate margin, as well as covering market based pricing asking questions such as: What value do you add? What are you worth? How do you position yourself?
02nd November 202210:00 am - 12:00 pmFREE
2 Nov - What is news? How to use the power of media to tell your story
This interactive session, led by professionally qualified journalist Andrew Vaux, will teach you how to use the power of the media to tell your stories to the world
08th November 20228:00 am - 10:00 pmFREE
The Past and Future of York City Centre
A full day and evening of activities at the Guildhall in York, covering finance, social media, selling online, hospitality and more, with and networking opportunities and expert speakers discussing the past and future of York City Centre.
08th November 202210:00 am - 11:00 amFREE
York Business Festival : Access to Finance for Start-ups
This seminar with business coach Gareth Allen 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.
08th November 20221:00 pm - 3:00 pmFREE
Hospitality - 4 things you need to be doing right now
As part of a day of activities at the Guildhall, this event, with hospitality expert Philip Bolson, discusses the four key things that make up a successful hospitality business.
08th November 20222:00 pm - 5:00 pmFREE
Creating a Consistent Content Strategy from Scratch : York Business Festival
As part of a day of activities at the Guildhall, in this hands-on session with Katie Lingo you’ll discover the benefits of content marketing. Learn how to raise awareness for new customers or warm up potential leads. Discover how to build a strategy from scratch, arming you with content ideas for months to come.
Upcoming Business Support Programmes in Harrogate
The York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub is working in collaboration with Harrogate Borough Council to deliver an extensive range of business support programmes. Starting from September 2022, these events will be held at venues in Harrogate and aim to support business owners, managers, and employees on a wide variety of subjects. These fully funded
Upcoming Business Support Programmes in York
The York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub is working in collaboration with City of York Council to deliver an extensive range of business support programmes. Starting from September 2022, these events will be held at venues in York and aim to support business owners, managers, and employees on a wide variety of subjects. These fully
Upcoming Business Support Programmes in York and Harrogate
The York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub is working in collaboration with City of York Council and Harrogate Borough Council to deliver an extensive range of business support programmes. Starting from September 2022, these events will be held at venues in York and Harrogate, as well as online, and aim to support business owners, managers,
Grow Yorkshire: Introduction to Food and Drink Commercial Agreement
This Grow Yorkshire webinar, featuring presentations from partnering organisations, will introduce you to the new Crown Commercial Service Food and Drink Agreement and discuss how it can help you join the supply chain.
Funding Growth
This webinar will provide you with a summary of all the commercial funding options available to businesses, with detail on how to make your business more attractive to funders.
An introduction to sales
This webinar will help you get sales confident by providing tips and guidance on mastering important communication skills.
Employer's Apprenticeship Toolkit
Thousands of businesses just like yours are using apprenticeships to help them grow. Download the toolkit to learn how apprenticeship training can link to your business’s aspirations.
Harrogate Support Programmes 2022
We are providing a number of fully funded Harrogate business support programmes for start-ups and growing businesses in the district.
Harrogate business support: Online manager programme
A fully funded opportunity for up to 12 businesses based in Harrogate to engage in a series of online workshops, facilitated by Pro-Development .
Harrogate business support: Plan your marketing for a successful 2022 with bespoke 1-2-1 coaching
A fully funded opportunity for businesses based in the Harrogate district to receive bespoke 1-2-1 marketing coaching, with InTandem Communications.
Harrogate business support: Change management support programme
Take a deep dive into your challenges and create a bespoke growth/ change management action plan with this fully funded opportunity for Harrogate businesses. Upon completion, you will also be referred for up to eight hours of further support.
Harrogate business support: Tourism business booster
Benefit from dedicated group and one-to-one coaching and mentoring with this fully funded tourism business booster for hospitality businesses in Harrogate.
Articles
The Benefits of Local Business Networking
Building relationships with other local businesses can be incredibly rewarding on a personal level as well as a shrewd business decision. Forging friendships with other people, many of whom may be facing similar challenges to you, can have some fantastic benefits that will enable you to grow your business – some of which you may
Why Business Continuity is Important
Preparing for the challenges a business might come up against when times get tough can seem like a mammoth task. You want to protect your business and guarantee that it can survive the adversity. It can be helpful to think about why you’re making a plan to ensure business continuity. Once you have in mind
Leadership & Management Skills for Growth
Good leadership and management strategy is vital for business resilience and, considering the business climate of the past couple of years, the need for businesses to be strong enough to face serious challenges is increasingly apparent. Beyond this, the right kind of leadership can make the biggest difference for the wellbeing of your team; by
New Business Board Chair appointed
A new business board chair is confident the York and North Yorkshire economy will grow back and better, as it recovers from the impact of Covid-19.
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.
Claiming expenses when running a small business from home
Claiming expenses when running a small business from home can be complex. As such, we are going to help you get to grips with what you can claim for...
Creating a continuity plan for your business
A continuity plan can help you to anticipate events so you can prepare for or prevent them happening, and have a strategy for recovery.
Types of crowdfunding
Crowdfunding had enjoyed a meteoric rise in growth and popularity. But what is it...
What alternative funds are available for investment or expansion?
There is plenty of support and alternative funds available for start-ups and growing SMEs seeking financial support...
