External Event
Getting your business investment ready
0.035% of all startups actually become a scaleup. That’s just one in every 2857 companies – Scaling up a business is tough! High-growth businesses need a great team, solid resources, a stand out proposition, and access to good financial solutions to keep the machine turning whilst they grow their customer numbers.
Going Green: What’s in it for me?
Part of Sustainability that pays: How going green is good for your business! Cut through the green jargon and discover how sustainability and net zero can benefit your business, your customers and your bottom line.
Ask the Expert Session – Simplifying Product Safety
Join one of our ‘Ask the Experts’ sessions and our product safety experts will help unravel what can be complex information and provide you with the answers to your product safety questions. Whether you are a manufacturer, designer, retailer or distributor, our Product Safety experts will help you ensure you’re business is doing it right.
Meaningful Business: How SMEs Create Social Value and Competitive Advantage
Hosted by Enterprise Works and the School for Business and Society at the University of York, this interactive workshop brings together businesses, social enterprises, and partners ready to actively shape the future of meaningful business in York & North Yorkshire. This is not a passive event — it’s designed for discussion, collaboration, and shared insight.
Driving innovation through creative technologies
Creative technologies are driving innovation far beyond the creative sector – transforming industries from manufacturing and engineering to health, heritage and tourism.
🤝 York International Women’s Week @ Patch: CELEBRATE, COLLABORATE, CONNECT
Female founder? Aspiring self-starter? Bootstrapping a business? Creating a community? Join us for a professional and personal power-up! There can’t be a more appropriate place for a big bonding session than York’s iconic Bonding House.
Managing stress and preventing burnout: Stokesley
Join Saffron De Menezes from Healing Womanhood delivering a session on Managing stress and preventing burnout. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT tapping) is a powerful yet easy to use energetic technique that lowers the body’s stress response and brings us back into balance.
✈️ China and Hong Kong Trade Mission 2026
Led by West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce and supported by Chamber International, the visit combines high-level engagement, market insight and structured support to help businesses assess whether these markets are the right fit for their growth strategy.
🌍 Water Resources: Optimising Storage and Irrigation
Water, essential but often either too abundant or too scarce. Join us as we look at water resources and ways of building water resilience into farming businesses. Join Catchment Sensitive Farming at this free event.