External Event
Identifying your customers
An introduction to simple market research techniques to understand your customer profiles and to consider the wider trading environment. We’ll be touching on some basic market research suggestions to help you better gauge your customer profile(s). We’ll also be giving some thought to the trading environment.
Business for Good – Whilst being Good
Stay ahead of sustainability compliance by mastering impact reporting, carbon footprinting and building a credible carbon reduction plan for your business.
Green not Greenwashing
Learn how to communicate your green credentials with confidence and authenticity, building trust, loyalty and sustainable growth without greenwashing.
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.