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Working for your Business
Supporting businesses across the Harrogate district
January 2
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Welcome to the January edition of Working for your Business with the usual round-up of local information, opportunities and events to help support your business.
We are always pleased to receive any feedback or suggestions - please just contact us via [email protected]
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Could you use the power of the network effect to grow your tech career/business?
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The theme for our first Harrogate Digital event of 2018 is about the power of the network effect and the importance of a networking mindset in growing your circle of influence, peer support groups etc. to help you achieve your goals.
Join us on Tuesday 27 February when Zandra Moore will be speaking about her successful use of positive visibility, which has helped her recently become CEO of tech company, Panintelligence.
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Digital Knowledge Exchange with Go Digital
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Go Digital - Live! is coming to Harrogate on Friday 23 March. This event will focus on sound and vision technologies and how they can help grow your business.
An exciting and inspiring range of topics and speakers have already been confirmed, including Google Digital Garage; Chatbots with Dougal Scaife; Voice Search with Jonny Ross; AR and VR with New Moon Studios; Cyber Security with The Regional Cyber Crime Unit; Staying Secure with VoiP with Nick Cohen of Time Communications.... More will be announced in the coming weeks.
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Financial support available for exporting
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If you are looking for funding to help you finance your international projects, you should join the Department for International Trade for one of their Exporting for Growth breakfast events. These networking events offer an opportunity to explore the match-funded grant of up to £5,000 which can be used to boost your business's international success.
The next event in the Leeds City Region will be taking place on Tuesday 28 March.
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| Propertyfinder - our free to search online commercial sites and premises register. |
| Quarterly Economic Overview - the latest figures from the Harrogate district. |
The £10 note featuring Charles Darwin will be withdrawn from circulation on 1 March. After this date, businesses no longer have to accept the Darwin note and the new polymer note featuring Jane Austen will be the only £10 note with legal tender status. Read more.
As of earlier this month, small businesses are no longer able to charge customers for using credit and debit cards due to new EU rules. Read more.
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Harrogate Advertiser Business Awards
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We are pleased to be continuing our involvement with these prestigious awards in 2018 and are looking forward to hearing more about some of the very best within our business community.
The awards are free to enter and open to businesses in every sector trading in the circulation area of the Harrogate Advertiser, Knaresborough Post, Wetherby News, Nidderdale Herald and Ripon Gazette.
Find about about the Award categories and submit your entry
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Organising and managing a safe, successful and secure outdoor event
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Are you involved with the organisation and management of outdoor events? Whatever the size of your organisation, our next Health and Safety event will help you to identify key factors that need to be considered and managed in order to run a safe event.
Join us at The Pavilions on Wednesday 7 March where our speakers will help you to develop the knowledge and understanding you need.
The event is suitable for any business or organisation that holds outdoor events, either as fundraising or for profit. It may also be of interest to consultants, group associations (such as Parent Teachers Associations), sports clubs, training companies and those with an interest in Health and Safety.
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Tech Nation 2018 survey: live now!
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Tech Nation is a ground-breaking series of reports on the UK's digital tech ecosystem. Over the last three years it has captured the strength, depth and breadth of activity across the UK. It has revealed the scale of the digital tech sector, captured its growth, and - crucially - developed an understanding of the characteristics of the communities driving it.
Tech Nation now wants to hear from all tech communities in the UK on topics such as diversity of the tech sector in the local area, on opportunities for high growth businesses and the quality of education and training. With your help this will provide the most up to date and insightful data on the UK tech community in 2018.
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Dealing with the UK's productivity crisis
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The latest free Business Development Forum from DSC Chartered Accountants will look at the UK's current problems with productivity and offer advice to business owners on improving efficiency in the workplace.
John Garbutt, of DSC, said: "The UK has one of the lowest productivity levels in the world, compared to other developed economies, yet everyone appears to be complaining about long hours in the office and being overworked. Our event will bring the subject of productivity to life and provide practical advice that everyone can use to work more efficiently and improve output."
The breakfast seminar will run on two separate dates, Friday 23 February and Friday 2 March at The Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate. The event is free but places must be booked in advance.
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More premises to get better broadband
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North Yorkshire County Council has awarded the contract for phase three of its Superfast North Yorkshire project to BT plc, meaning more than 14,000 more premises across the county can look forward to better broadband.
The majority of the premises will benefit from having fibre optic cables connected directly to them, with speeds of up to 330 megabits per second (Mbps) giving many more small rural firms the ability to compete and to grow their business.
When Superfast North Yorkshire was first formed in 2010, nearly 50,000 businesses and residential premises received less than 2Mbps - and the average broadband speed of the 300,000 premises in North Yorkshire was under 4Mbps. Thanks to the intervention of Superfast North Yorkshire over the last six years, by the end of 2017, 89 per cent of premises in the county could receive superfast broadband.
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