Yorkshire Sustainability Festival

This is your FINAL CHANCE to win a FREE STAY at the world first Passivhaus Church Conversion! ✨ COMPETITION CLOSES SUNDAY 24th at 10PM✨ Warksburn Old Church is now a luxurious holiday home in the gorgeous Northumberland countryside, surrounded by stunning dark skies & a stones throw away from Hadrian’s Wall, it’s the perfect place for a sustainable holiday getaway! For your chance to win a free stay, check out the link in the comments! Alan James Warksburn Old Church

Happy UK Entrepreneurs Day! Are you an entrepreneur and would you like to know more about how your business can grow with a Knowledge Transfer Partnership? We’re hosting a webinar with Leeds Beckett University on how you can use KTP’s to grow your business in 2025! 📆 Tuesday 26th November ⏰ 11am - 12pm 📍 Online - Sign up in the link in comments! If you don't know, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) help businesses innovate for growth. What is it? A Government-funded programme helping businesses develop and gain a competitive advantage with the expertise of UK universities. How does it work? Each KTP creates a unique partnership between a business and a university to deliver positive impact and drive innovation. Every project is tailor-made for your business. Who funds it? The programme, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through Innovate UK, has been running for over 45 years. During that time, it has enabled more than 14,000 businesses to drive innovation for positive impact. What else does it offer? The KTP programme is complemented by the Management KTP Programme (mKTP), focused on helping businesses build resilience, adaptability and growth by changing culture or expanding management capability. Want to know more? Sign up to the webinar using the links below! Kate Hutchinson Declan Williams Anne-Marie Gallagher

✨ COMPETITION ✨ Would you like a FREE STAY in the world’s first converted church to Passivhaus home? Warksburn Old Church is now a luxurious holiday home in the gorgeous Northumberland countryside, surrounded by stunning dark skies & a stones throw away from Hadrian’s Wall, it’s the perfect place for a sustainable holiday getaway! For your chance to win a free stay, check out our blog on Warksburn (link in the comments) and apply for the competition linked at the end of the article!

Have you ever thought about the benefits of joining a Knowledge Transfer Partnership for your small business? We're hosting a webinar with the team from Leeds Beckett University on 26th November 2024 where we'll be digging into how you can collaborate with the university on driving innovation... If you don't know, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) help businesses innovate for growth. What is it? A Government-funded programme helping businesses develop and gain a competitive advantage with the expertise of UK universities. How does it work? Each KTP creates a unique partnership between a business and a university to deliver positive impact and drive innovation. Every project is tailor-made for your business. Who funds it? The programme, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through Innovate UK, has been running for over 45 years. During that time, it has enabled more than 14,000 businesses to drive innovation for positive impact. What else does it offer? The KTP programme is complemented by the Management KTP Programme (mKTP), focused on helping businesses build resilience, adaptability and growth by changing culture or expanding management capability. Want to know more? Sign up to the webinar using the links below! Kate Hutchinson Declan Williams Anne-Marie Gallagher

DATES ARE CONFIRMED FOR YORKSHIRE SUSTAINABILITY FESTIVAL 2025 AND OUR FLAGSHIP CONFERENCE RE:GENERATION EARTH Are you planning your marketing and events strategy for 2025? If you're keen to host one of our 50+ fringe events, make sure the dates are in your diary for the third Yorkshire Sustainability Festival! You'll be able to submit your events from January 2025, so get planning now! Our flagship conference will be held at The Royal Armouries on 18th and 19th June, taking a national focus in 2025 and becoming Re:Generation Earth! Bringing together over 2,000 public, private and third sector leaders, with 3 stages, over 100 exhibition stands and 8 pavilions, this event is not to be missed! Will you be part of the biggest sustainability business festival outside of London in 2025? Don't miss out! Kate Hutchinson Declan Williams Nicky Wilkinson Nicola H.

What a celebration of sustainability it was... Watch our highlights reel from the recently delivered Yorkshire Sustainability Festival Conference! Massive thanks to Marcus Brooks for putting together this great video!

Ask yourself these questions... 💚 What is at the core, the trust, and the heartbeat of your company? 🌱 Does it deliver healthy growth, for a healthy society? 🌍 Are you set up for a greener economy? We were honoured to have Mary Portas, OBE join our founder Kate Hutchinson for a fireside chat on day one of our sustainability conference, and we hope those of you who attended were inspired to rethink, reset and get in sync with society. Goodness needs to be at the heart of all business, and we're ready to make it happen. 🙌 #circulareconomy #betterbusiness #greeneconomy #sustainability

If you're following us, we know you are already motivated to make a positive difference to the world that we live in, so we'd love to hear what you're doing for #plasticfreejuly! Plastic Free July is a global movement that encourages people be part of the solution to plastic pollution, meaning we can have cleaner streets, oceans 🌊 , and beautiful, more natural communities. 🌳🏘 🌸 Small actions, together, can make a massive impact. #oceans #sustainable #water #reducereuserecycle #innovation #plasticpollution

⬇ Top down ⬆ Bottom up 🌱 Organic Kevin McCloud delivered a thought provoking keynote on building and the future of housing - where it was highlighted that nothing is new or isolated. What we need to drive change and evolve, is a combined approach to building future cities and sustainable communities led by people, creativity, imagination and art. What would your ideal sustainable community look like? #futurecities #circulareconomy #retrofitting #nature #walkablecities #sustainability

Our two day conference smelled delightful between Incredible Edible Leeds freshly grown produce and the amazing dishes whipped up by Season Well CIC. If you didn't get a chance to see them during the festival, get in touch with their team to find discuss how powerful small actions like growing your own produce can be. Make sure you sign the Incredible Edible Leeds #righttogrow petition too! https://lnkd.in/eSAzg6fW #food #circulareconomy #futurecities #homegrown #leeds