Venturefest Yorkshire 2010

Venturefest Yorkshire is a regional event for entrepreneurs and the professionals who support their emerging businesses. It provides a fantastic audience from across the region for the services offered by members. Help us to promote your business! We are looking for help in manning the stand throughout the day and providing information for each of the seven sectors covered by York Professionals. For more details click here.

Dates for your 2010 Dairy

Don’t be shy – get the dates for next years’ York Professionals events in your diary now! Kersten England will be speaking about her vision for York on 20th January and we have a joint event with Make-York in April, where business skills will be tested and honed by SimVenture, an award-winning business simulation game. View all forthcoming events.

Make-York

The young York Professionals group is now up and running following an extremely successful launch at Kennedy’s bar in November. ‘Make-York’, as the group is now known, have a programme of events in place, the first event, a Christmas lunch with Bill Woolley, City of York Council and Steve Hughes, The Press, was a sell-out. To get involved, sign up at www.make-york.com.

New blood for Board

We are pleased to welcome four new directors to the York Professionals board, Tracey Smith (York Science Park), Jackie Mathers (York St John Business School), Tony Hardy (as Chair of Venturefest) and Chris Chittock (as Chair of Make-York). We look forward to working together to move York Professionals forward. Thanks go to Denise Stuart (york-england.com) who resigned as a director and now works with us as a strategic partner.

Membership News

We have extended our membership categories to include individual professionals working in professional and financial services. Contact Helen for further information.