Meet the Mentors – DKE Virtual Mentoring Day – February 2020

Date: 14th January 2021

Click here to book your place. Registration closes on Wednesday 20th January The DKE Virtual Mentoring Day returns on Tuesday 2nd February. The event is organised by the Digital Knowledge Exchange and is a one-day opportunity for Yorkshire businesses to receive expert one-to-one consultations on all things digital. In this article, you will be able to read more about the mentors who are providing support to businesses on the day. They share our passion for encouraging businesses to do more with digital technology to drive productivity, competitiveness and ultimately business growth. Clare Watson Clare is an experienced Operations Director with …

Excitement builds amongst businesses as nominations re-open for the Digital Enterprise TOP 100

Date: 13th November 2020

The Digital Enterprise TOP 100 is a campaign to celebrate the most innovative and digitally transformational businesses in the Leeds City Region. Receiving over 500 nominations in 2019, the TOP 100 has now re-opened nominations for the 2020 campaign for businesses in Leeds, Bradford, York, Harrogate, Calderdale, Kirklees, Wakefield, Selby and Craven. Successful nominations will be profiled in the TOP 100 Report, which provides extensive coverage for the leading 100 businesses as it is distributed across the region and nationally, as well as being available online. Additionally, the new members of the TOP 100 will be invited to the celebration …

Digital Growth Voucher – you may now be eligible!

Date: 13th November 2020

Have you ever applied for funding which could help you transform your business only to discover you aren’t eligible? Frustrating isn’t it? However, circumstances can change and it doesn’t necessarily mean you will never be able to take advantage of such support. Here at Digital Enterprise we are keen to assist as many businesses as possible with their digital aspirations and judging by how many registrations we receive – over 3,100 since the second phase of our programme opened in September 2019 – there are a lot of businesses in the Leeds City Region that are keen to access our …

NEBRC to deliver £100K cyber security programme for SMEs

Date: 12th November 2020

Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (the LEP) has commissioned the North East Business Resilience Centre (NEBRC) to deliver a £100K programme to support the self-employed and micro-businesses of less than 10 employees across the Leeds City Region (excluding Barnsley) with cyber security. The pandemic period has seen a 400% increase in cyber fraud* with statistics reflecting that small businesses – and particularly the self-employed sole trader or micro business – have found themselves at greatest risk and without access to relevant cyber support and services. Roger Marsh OBE, DL, Chair of Leeds City Region Partnership (the LEP) and NP11 comments: …

Meet the Mentors – DKE Virtual Mentoring Day – November 2020

Date: 29th October 2020

The DKE Virtual Mentoring Day returns on Thursday 5th November. The event is organised by the Digital Knowledge Exchange and is a one-day opportunity for Yorkshire businesses to receive expert one-to-one consultations on all things digital. In this article you will be able to read more about the mentors who are providing support to businesses on the day. They share our passion for encouraging businesses to do more with digital technology to drive productivity, competitiveness and ultimately business growth. Beth Hewitt Before leaving her corporate 9 to 5, Beth managed business support programmes for local government supporting over 5000 businesses …