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Events
03rd October 20239:00 am - 11:00 amFREE
3 Oct - York Green Business Forum: Energy
If you want to futureproof your business, increase profits, and become more sustainable, come along to the first York Green Business Forum event.
05th October 20239:00 am - 2:30 pmFREE
5 Oct - Recruitment and Retention Reimagined
Connect with other local businesses and hear from top recruitment and retention specialists about how to boost your chances of success.
19th October 20239:30 am - 11:00 amFREE
19 Oct - North Yorkshire Council: Connect Over A Cuppa
This free session for North Yorkshire SMEs will provide you with a space to share new ideas, solve problems, and connect with like-minded businesses. You will also get the chance to speak with specialists about support for your business.
26th October 202310:00 am - 4:00 pmFREE
October-November 2023 - Tourism Business Booster: Marketing Planning for 2024
Following the success of last year's events, the Growth Hub will again be working with The Tourism Business to provide workshops to the tourism and hospitality sector to plan their marketing for 2024.
01st November 20237:00 pm - 9:00 pmFREE
1 Nov - Strive Live Start-up Incubator
Looking for start up support in York & North Yorkshire? Join this award-winning programme designed to help entrepreneurs.
16th November 20239:30 am - 11:00 amFREE
16 Nov - North Yorkshire Council: Connect Over A Cuppa
This free session for North Yorkshire SMEs will provide you with a space to share new ideas, solve problems, and connect with like-minded businesses. You will also get the chance to speak with specialists about support for your business.
14th December 20239:30 am - 11:00 amFREE
14 Dec - North Yorkshire Council: Connect Over A Cuppa
This free session for North Yorkshire SMEs will provide you with a space to share new ideas, solve problems, and connect with like-minded businesses. You will also get the chance to speak with specialists about support for your business.
Glossary of Climate Change Terms for Businesses
A free digital glossary defining the key climate change terms relevant to businesses, to help you understand and engage with sustainability resources and support.
2022 Seminar Recordings
We have recently hosted a programme of in-person seminars and other events, some of which were professionally recorded and can now be viewed on our website.
Seminar Recording : Access to finance: Funding growth
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?
Webinar: Building the foundations
Building the foundations text with a picture of Gareth Allen on the right
Seminar Recording : Access to finance: Funding growth
This seminar recording with GAP coaching will provide you with a summary of all the commercial funding options available to businesses, with details on how to make your business more attractive to funders.
Seminar Recording : Menopause Wellbeing in the Workplace
This recorded seminar looks at the menopause and its impact on the people in your business, with suggestions of simple workplace adjustments to support staff experiencing menopause. Delivered by Sally Duffin of ‘Nutrition in York’
Seminar Recording : Getting Stuff Done
Discover strategies to keep on top of your work and stay organised in this recorded seminar with Gareth Allen of GAP Coaching.
Featured Webinar Playlist: Supercharge your start-up
Supercharge your start-up with our free webinar playlist, covering topics such as finance, marketing, networking, social media, sales and more.
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.
Free Webinar : Show Me The Money!
This webinar guides you through the funding options that are available to new and early-stage businesses, to help your business thrive now and in the future.
Free Webinar : Creating and delivering business growth
This webinar explores how to manage and achieve your business' growth aspirations by looking at and prioritising the activities that are key to success.
Articles
Launch Your Start-up with Award-Winning Support
We are calling on budding entrepreneurs with a drive for success to seize an exciting opportunity and launch your start-up.
Enterprise Centre celebrated for supporting entrepreneurial talent
The York St John Enterprise Centre has been celebrated as a vital support hub for startups, creative and digital businesses, and social enterprises.
Free business advice in Settle drop-ins at Langcliffe Enterprise Centre
Entrepreneurs and business owners in Settle are in for a treat as the Langcliffe Quarry Enterprise Centre offers a remarkable opportunity: free business advice in Settle.
Four issues key to social enterprise survival
Social enterprises face a unique and complex series of issues. To ensure the long-term health and survival of your social enterprise, an understanding of these issues is vital. In this article, I will summarise four key areas you need to consider: sources of funding, governance considerations, the power of people, and sustainable growth.
Peer to peer lending Q&A
Looking for an alternative route to financing your business? Peer to peer (P2P) lending is one of the options.
Horizon Scanning: Four questions social enterprises need to answer
With so much going on in the present, it’s not always easy to look to the future. However, the identification of potential risks and opportunities is vital to the long-term health of any business, and social enterprises are no different. Horizon scanning helps in assessing whether you are adequately prepared for future changes or threats.
How has the Growth Hub helped people do business?
At the York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub, we’re supporting businesses to start, grow and scale – find out how our programmes, partnerships and teams have helped.
Connecting businesses to support in Harrogate
Businesses in Harrogate have welcomed free drop-in days which are connecting them to support and friendly, local business advice specialists.
Angel investment for female founders on International Women’s Day
Female owners of start-ups in York and North Yorkshire will pitch to ‘angel’ investors for funding to develop their business.
