🚗 Growth Hub Roadshow: Northallerton

After the success of last year’s roadshows, the Growth Hub is hitting the road again, traveling the region to bring the best of local business support to a town near you.

Partnering with NatWest Accelerator, and joined by Business Support Advisors from North Yorkshire Council and City of York Council, the Growth Hub Roadshow is set to showcase what business support really looks like.

This roadshow focuses on Digital, featuring NatWest Accelerator delivering guidance on Financial Foundations alongside a guest delivering an interactive activity.

 Each event will:

• Focus on a business-relevant theme.
• Showcase business support in action, with a live Q&A.
• Feature a hands-on activity to get you thinking.
• Provide opportunities to meet the team, partners and service providers.
• Give you the chance to enjoy a free lunch and meet like-minded people.

 Hotseat Challenge

We’ll be shining the spotlight on a local business, they’ll share the challenges they’re facing, giving you a behind-the-scenes look at how the team collaborates to break down the barriers holding growing businesses back.

 Financial Foundations

A practical, no‑nonsense masterclass designed to help business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs build a strong financial foundation.

🛡️ Interactive Activity

Lego is a tabletop/role-playing scenario exercise about physical and technical security within organisations. Delegates are challenged with managing the security of a small utility company: they are given a budget that they can spend among a range of different defensive options.

Decisions must be made considering several potential threats, known vulnerabilities of the infrastructure, past and ongoing cyber-attacks, and of course budget limitations. The aim is to challenge teams to think differently about business security, no technical knowledge is required to take part.

 Agenda for the day

• 09:30 – Arrival & refreshments
• 10:00 – Welcome
• 10:15 – Hotseat challenge
• 11:00 – Q&A
• 11:30 – Networking & lunch
• 12:30 – Introductions & key speaker
• 12:45 – Financial Foundations
• 13:45 – Comfort break & refreshments
• 14:00 – Interactive activity
• 15:30 – Event closes

Venue: The Golden Lion, 114 High St, Northallerton DL7 8PP

 Photography & Videography Notice

Photos and videos may be taken during this event and used for promotional purposes.

 Can’t make it to Northallerton?

We’ll also be visiting Knaresborough (18 August), Pickering (22 September), and York (14 October), running from 9:30am to 3:30pm.