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.

2nd September 202511:00 am - 12:00 pmFREE

🟢 Online Workshops: Digital Marketing Success Series (Beginner)

This online weekly workshop series, Louise Mason of Your Marketing Specialist will guide you through the basics of digital marketing and on to more advanced strategies – all at your pace, with the same supportive group of peers by your side. Confidently Step into Digital Marketing – No Matter Where You’re Starting From

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?

10th September 20256:00 pm - 7:30 pmFREE

Totally Locally’s guide to collaboration and promotion for independent high streets: A Vibrant and Sustainable High Streets Fund Webinar

This webinar, funded through the Mayor's Vibrant and Sustainable High Streets Fund, will share practical tools, inspiring stories, and proven strategies to activate your own high street on small budgets, from the ground up, and will explore how communities have worked together to boost local trade, revive civic pride, and build resilient economies.

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.

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.

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.

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.