Digital Growth Vouchers – Apply Now!

Date: 16th May 2018

The sky’s the limit for businesses who invest in digital technology with up to £10,000 of technology funding up for grabs for Yorkshire businesses. Digital Enterprise has recently launched phase three of its hugely successful Digital Growth Voucher scheme and businesses in the Leeds city region are being urged to take advantage of up to £10,000 of funding to invest in new digital technology, before the window for applications closes next month. The Digital Growth Vouchers scheme for SMEs provides funding of between £2,000 and £10,000 towards new IT hardware and software, or to upgrade broadband connectivity. Available to firms …

Go Digital Live Conferences

Date: 16th May 2018

The Digital Knowledge Exchange Service are committed to delivering several large events as part of the programme, which includes a mixture of seminars, mentoring, exhibitions and networking opportunities. These events are a great opportunity to meet other businesses and to find out about new and emerging digital technology and services. These full day event start at 9.30am and run through to 4.30pm with up to 200 businesses attending from across the Leeds City Region. We are currently planning our next event, which is due to take place in the early autumn of 2018 and we will let you know when we have …

Google Algorithm Update

Date: 1st May 2018

Google often changes its algorithms to in order to determine how a website ranks in it’s organic search results. Google have recently confirmed the next batch of changes which looks to take place in July of this year. How will this affect my business? For several years now, Google has started to take a businesses mobile presence more and more seriously. In the last few batches of algorithm changes Google have given more authority and really started to take into consideration as to whether a site is mobile friendly. Google have now confirmed that, as of July 2018, they are …

Great start to 2018 for Digital Enterprise

Date: 23rd February 2018

We have had a very busy but positive start to 2018 so far Our Digital Growth Advisers have been getting in touch with businesses that applied for a Digital Growth voucher in Phase 2 (which ended in December).  Overall we received over 250 applications from firms seeking support – which clearly demonstrates the need for funding from growing businesses in the area. Just over 170 business were deemed eligible for support in Phase 2.  Some of the reasons why applicants were not successful include; • Ineligible Sector – B2C/retail sector (37%) • Age of the business – under 12 months …

Leeds Digital Festival is back – and bigger than ever!

Date: 23rd February 2018

The North’s largest digital festival will return to Leeds between 16th to 27th April 2018 and it’s going to be twice as big as last year’s festival, which saw 115 events. Stuart Clarke, organiser of Leeds Digital Festival said ‘We’ve moved to a two-week Festival so we can make more noise about the digital sector in Leeds, and give our companies and universities more opportunity to host events. We’re also working with Leeds BID who oversee the Leeds International Festival, which starts the day after LDF finishes.’ ‘Together, we’ll have a whole month of telling the world how great Leeds …