Events
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12th August 20251:00 pm - 3:00 pmFREE
🌎 Growth Hub Summer Showcase - York
Join us on Tuesday 12 August at The National Centre for Early Music (NCEM) for the Growth Hub Summer Showcase, our networking launch event in York. This is your chance to meet the team, build your network and find out about the programmes of support starting this summer, designed to help your business thrive.
13th August 202510:00 am - 11:00 amFREE
🟢 How to get higher in Google: The basics
Want your website to be seen by as many potential customers as possible? Get practical tips from an experienced Search Engine Optimisation professional on how to woo those elusive search engine robots and climb the rankings.
14th August 202510:00 am - 11:30 amFREE
🌎 Business Basics Webinar: Making Tax Digital
Making Tax Digital is the government’s plan to move UK taxpayer’s records from spreadsheets and paper, to a fully digital system. It already applies to VAT-registered businesses and will soon apply to Income Tax records for self-employed individuals and landlords.
21st August 202510:00 am - 11:30 amFREE
🌎 Business Basics Webinar: Accessing Capital for Growth
Gaining access to outside investment means you don’t have to give up on your dream. So how do you prove to any potential investor that your business model is worth investing in. What information will they need from you? What timescales are involved and what are the likely costs/cash flow implications.
28th August 202510:00 am - 11:30 amFREE
🌎 Business Basics Webinar: Forecasting
It is really important to have up to date numbers. Those representing the trading to date can really help any stakeholder to understand the business. But we can no longer influence what has already happened, so the key to successful decision making is in forecasting.
2nd September 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pmFREE
🟢 Strive Live Start-up Incubator: September 2025
If you are currently running or looking to launch a start-up based in York & North Yorkshire, join this award-winning incubator designed to help grassroots entrepreneurs launch their business. Strive Live blends weekly live online training with regular one-to-one advice and on-demand online learning to make it simple and exciting to start a business. Plus, you could win up to £2,500 in micro grants at the end of the programme.
3rd September 202510:00 am - 11:30 amFREE
🌎 Business Basics Webinar: How much is your Business Worth
Understanding how much your business is worth is really important if you are looking for equity investment, or if you are looking to sell some or all of your business. You don’t want to insult a potential investor by going in too high, but equally, you want to get what your business is worth.
3rd September 202512:00 pm - 3:00 pmFREE
York Retrofit Network
This is the nineth meeting of the York Retrofit Network, which is part of a wider project supported by Innovate UK to create a Retrofit One-Stop-Shop for York. The meetings will occur roughly every two months.
4th September 202510:00 am - 11:30 amFREE
🟡 Webinar: Complete Web design for small businesses and start ups
This practical and engaging webinar is designed to empower small business owners, sole traders, and creatives to make informed decisions about building and maintaining their own websites. Whether you're just starting out or looking to improve your existing site, this session will provide clear, actionable guidance to help you move forward with confidence.
9th September 20251:00 pm - 2:30 pmFREE
🌎 Business Basics Webinar: Selling some or all of the shares
Selling a business or shares in a business is serious stuff and the price tag can be high, so it’s not surprising that the due diligence process undertaken by the legal representatives and finance professionals on both the buyers and sellers’ sides can feel somewhat invasive. So, what kind of information is likely to be requested, what are the timescales involved, payment terms and other expectation, plus the tax implications on the sale of shares?
11th September 202510:00 am - 12:00 amFREE
🟢 IP Readiness for Investment: A Strategic Guide for Early-Stage Businesses
Join Intellectual Property (IP) specialist Secerna for an insightful webinar designed to support early-stage businesses. You will learn why IP matters to investors, the most common pitfalls that derail funding rounds, and how to avoid them.
16th September 20251:00 pm - 2:30 pmFREE
🌎 Business Basics Webinar: Shared ownership
Having a business partner can seriously benefit a business. Capitalizing on two or more sets of skills and experience, as well as having another pair of hands to contribute to the day to day running of the business. But not all business partners are the same, some want a silent role, whilst others are more hands on. So, choosing the right business partner is crucial.
17th September 202510:00 am - 11:30 amFREE
🟢 LinkedIn Webinar: Build Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn
The webinar will cover the importance of building an online presence on professional networking site LinkedIn.
19th September 202510:00 am - 1:00 pmFREE
🟢 SEO and website auditing fundamentals
This fully funded three-hour workshop will provide an interactive, face-to-face session for anybody who is new to search engine optimisation (SEO). Ideal for those looking to develop a website or improve on their existing site, this beginners’ course will give a broad overview of the three areas of SEO: onsite, offsite and technical.
25th September 20256:00 pm - 8:00 pm£10
🌍 Innovation Supper
Back by popular demand! York Business School, Patch York and the York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub are delighted to bring you our second Innovation Supper! The basic idea is: We provide some supper, charge a small entry fee, then invite local community projects to pitch for the proceeds raised through the fee, and hold a vote to select the winner - It's that simple! It’s a simple way to do some good.
25th September 202510:00 am - 11:30 amFREE
🌎 Business Basics Webinar: Profitability
To truly understand profitability, we need to look at it more frequently and in more detail. Analysing which aspects of your business make what level of profit and understanding what drives profit allows business owners to make good strategic decisions to improve it.
26th September 202510:00 am - 1:00 pmFREE
🟡 Building your online reputation
This three-hour workshop will provide an interactive, face-to-face session for those who have attended Phase 1 of the Digital Marketing Mastery series or those who have intermediate search engine optimisation (SEO) knowledge. It will build upon the fundamentals of SEO, in particular, focusing on offsite SEO to enhance your online reputation.
1st October 202510:00 am - 3:00 pmFREE
🌎 SUPERNetworking - York and North Yorkshire
Get ready for a packed day of networking with business support, learning sessions, and the opportunity to make new business connections and hear inspirational stories to motivate you and your business.
2nd October 20251:00 pm - 2:30 pmFREE
🌎 Business Basics Webinar: Project Evaluation
Projects can be anything from taking on a new person, or launching a new product, to building a manufacturing site, or acquiring a business to merge with the current one. How you evaluate each project can vary depending on size and complexity. But undertaking the exercise leads to better decision making and control.
3rd October 202510:00 am - 1:00 pmFREE
🟡 Creating a content strategy from scratch
This three-hour workshop will provide an interactive, face-to-face session for those who have attended Phase 1, 2 or both phases of the Digital Marketing Mastery series. Alternatively, those who have not attended but have intermediate search engine optimisation knowledge, and would now like to invest in content, will benefit most.
8th October 202510:00 am - 11:30 amFREE
🌎 Business Basics Webinar: Tax planning – Directors Loans and Dividends
Often business owners will inject cash into a business where they are a Director. This could be when the business is starting out, or to help with cash flow along the way. But how are these cash injections accounted for, and when can they be withdrawn?