TODAY marks the start of York Business Week as the five-day event returns for its sixth year.

With the absence of the usual York Business Conference anchor event from City of York Council, Business Week today gets underway with a SUPER’ networking event hosted by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in partnership with Ian Walker & Co and Begbies Traynor.

From now until the end of the week, there will more than 14 events across the city including workshops and seminars.

Emma Smailes, director of York Business Week Engagement Group, said: “In its five-year history, York Business Week grew and grew, engaging at all levels, locally, regionally and internationally.

“Tens of thousands of businesses, students, start-ups and established businesses attended the various events over the five years, and in turn throughout the five years more than 75 Global Entrepreneurship Week High Impact Awards were won.

“As a non-executive director of the York Business Week Community Interest Company, it has been great to see a group of businesses and organisations from across the city come back together, again working cross organisationally, to successfully deliver the sixth York Business Week.

“Our aspiration is that this year the business and business organisations within the city will deliver a range of impactful, meaningful and exciting events that will bring together business skills, inspiration and insight for the delegates attending.”

Alongside a host of workshops and seminars, York Business Week will once again feature The Press Business Awards, which this year is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and will welcome more than 400 people to a black tie event on Thursday evening, awarding 16 titles to businesses across York and North Yorkshire.

Programme of Events

Today

• SUPERNetworking Event, hosted by Crombie Wilkinson Solicitors, FSB York, Ian Walker & Co, Begbies Traynor. From 8.30am to 1pm at Novotel, York, followed by a networking lunch hosted by The Novotel Hotel York from 1pm to 2.15pm, with guest speaker David Kerfoot MBE.

• Make It Happen, hosted by Yorkshire Women in Business. From 10am to 4pm at Betty & Flo’s Café in Huntington.

Tuesday 17

• York Means Business: Driving Sustainable Profitable Growth hosted by Make it York. From 8am to noon at Best Western York Pavilion Country Hotel.

• Yorkshire WiRE Conference hosted jointly by the Scarborough and York WiRE (Women in Rural Enterprise) Network Groups. From 9.30am to 2pm at Askam Bryan College.

• York Means Business: Secrets of Marketing Success hosted by Make it York. From 1pm to 4pm at Best Western York Pavilion Country Hotel.

Wednesday 18

• Pure Networking, hosted by York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce. From 7.30am to 9am at Betty’s Café Tea Rooms

• How to be Completely Debt Free in seven years, hosted by Hunter Gee Holroyd Chartered Accountants. From 8am to 9.30am at Middlethorpe Hall.

• York Pop-up Business Advice Cafe, hosted by York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Local Enterprise Partnership. From 8am to 12pm at Your Bike Shed, Micklegate.

• University of York Leadership Taster Session, hosted by the University’s Continuous Professional Development Unit with 45-minute sessions running from 9am to 12.30pm.

Thursday 19

• Next Generation Workforce, hosted by 3aaa at its York office from 7.30am to 9am.

• Accounting in the Cloud, hosted by Garbutt + Elliott Accountants. From 9.30am to 11.30am at the firm’s York office Arabesque House, in Monks Cross.

• International Trade Taster Session, hosted by York College in conjunction with Go International. From 10am to 11.30am at York College.

• Apprenticeship Graduation and Awards Ceremony from 7.30pm to 8.45pm at The Royal York Hotel.

• The Press Business Awards, from 6.30pm at York Racecourse.

Friday 20

• Suits & Vinyl, hosted by Simon Palmer of Garbutt + Elliott Mat Lazenby of LazenbyBrown. From 4pm to 8pm at Sotano York.