FSB Networking in Sheffield
In-person networking to connect, collaborate and chat whilst discovering more about the support available to you and your business. The Federation of Small Businesses and Business Sheffield (Sheffield City Council's Business Support team) invite startups and small and medium sized businesses to join us for breakfast networking.
Join us at Electric Works for an opportunity to find out more about the support available to businesses across Sheffield, from spaces, funding, skills and recruitment, innovation, environmental and productivity. Meet, chat, get to know each other as business owners, and share your tips and advice; celebrations or challenges.
FSB representatives will be on hand to answer any questions you have and help make the connections and introductions, and you can also use the time with us to ask membership questions.
We’ll be there to introduce you to new contacts, and you can use your time with us and colleagues from Business Sheffield to seek assistance or update on small business issues affecting your livelihood.
Hull Networking
Having recently held two successful business networking breakfast in Hull in collaboration with Hull City Council we would like to encourage our members to come along and network at the forthcoming Hull Business Breakfast. Organised by Hull City Council the event will be showcasing the help and support available to businesses from the council and other agencies. Your local Development Manager from the FSB will be joining other local organisations with a dedicated stand at the marketplace style networking. The networking will follow on from presentations and updates on devolution and the supply chain networking, with local businesses sharing their experiences of accessing support.
The event forms part of Humber Business Week - a full week of events and networking opportunities across the area.
Humber Business Week – open to those outside the region too!
The 1st week of June has for many years been earmarked for the Humber for its week-long festival for business. Whilst the week includes have some events focused on business support for those who reside in the area, there are some wonderful opportunities to networking, learn and build your knowledge no matter where you are located. The week itself is hosted by numerous businesses and organisations, with a volunteer steering group pulling it all together and promoting the events of the week.
I’ve highlighted a couple of events below which you might find of interest:
Customer Journey and Accessibility: thinking beyond, 5 June 2024, Louis Pearlman Centre, Hull.
Hosted and delivered by FSB member Helen Thompson of Helen’s Wheels, exploring what your customer journey is like for those with disabilities, a 2 hour session thinking way beyond accessibly ramps.
This event is designed to raise awareness of the issues faced by disabled customers when accessing services that non-disabled users can access without a second thought. With 1 in 4 people in the UK having a disability, this is actually a large proportion of any business's customer base and means you could be missing out on the "purple pound", a collective term used to describe the spending power of this group of consumers. You can book your place via the Eventbrite listing.
ChatGP Friend or Foe, Hull College, 4 June, 5.30pm
Designed with small businesses and those new to AI in mind, join for this out of business hours workshop to ChatGPT is the revolutionary AI conversational agent crafted by OpenAI. It’s not just a tool to write some prose; it’s a game changer for customer engagement, operational agility and data driven decision-making. But as with any innovation understanding how to navigate its potential safely is key. Join us the event hosted by Data Protection Solutions and presented by Hull College, where award winning EdTech speaker Deb Miller will give you a live demonstration on how to use this phenomenon safely. Book in advance is a must
There are over 30 events to choose from on everything from street food, tech, finance, to manufacturing improvements. Visit the main Humber Business Website to find out more.
Doncaster - MP Roundtable with Dame Rosie Winterton 12 July.
If you live or have a business based in the Doncaster Central constituency you could join your FSB Development manager to meet with Dame Rosie Winterton MP on the afternoon of 12 July.
We will be discussing with Rosie the issues and challenges you face as a business and an opportunity to hear more from Rosie on what she and her colleagues in Government are proposing. We will also be joined by Labour Candidate for Doncaster Central Sally Jameson.
This event is being hosted as a small roundtable event, and to aid more in-depth opportunities the event is limited to 9 FSB members, and to those who have businesses in or business owners who reside in Dame Rosie’s constituency.
If you are interested in joining please email [email protected].
A coastal community of businesses working together to footfall and raise more awareness of the independent businesses and tourist attractions. The group is a 'not for profit' organisation, with funds raised through regular marketplace events to fund advertising campaigns, training and workshops for the small business community. I had the pleasure of meeting its founders, and some of its members (including some of whom are also FSB members) at its recent monthly meeting, with plans for a marketplace event in September, a tourist information map with businesses included, and plans to host social media and visual display workshops in collaboration with East Riding Council all coming up soon. If you’re in the local area and haven’t connected with them as yet, or interested in finding out more email [email protected]
South Yorkshire Tech Venture Community
A new network has launched that aims to help startups in South Yorkshire to secure £100m in venture funding over the next five years. Venture.Community will provide resources and a rolling programme of education and events open to any founder who wants to access them. Start-ups with the most potential will receive mentorship from experienced founders in the community and support achieving specific outcomes, such as funding. This is being delivered as a pilot in South Yorkshire.
