Events

SheChain Live 2026

Building Bigger Businesses. Creating Bigger Opportunities. Thursday 1 October 2026 | Winter Gardens, Blackpool What if your next customer, buyer, stockist, investor or strategic partner was all in one room?

AI assistant and workflow essentials

Learn how AI assistants work, how they differ from standard AI tools, and how businesses are already deploying them to automate tasks across marketing, operations, and customer engagement.

Breakfast Social and Coworking Day: October

Join us for a day of coworking at Society1. Come and work from our creative and vibrant space.

Cyber Essentials: Are You Ready, or At Risk?

Join us at Ribby Hall Conference Suite on Tuesday 6 October for an interactive, sector-focused Cyber Essentials event. Learn how to strengthen your cyber resilience, avoid common certification failures and understand the latest April 2026 changes, with practical guidance and real-world insight from guest speaker John Isles.

Lancashire Cyber Attack Hydra Simulation

Is Your Business Ready for a Cyber Attack?

Co Work & Connection

Digital Burnley Pop Up Co Work Join Burnley's DigiTech community for a relaxed and productive day of co-working, collaboration and connection.

Putting it altogether and launching your new business model

🐉 Love watching Dragons’ Den? 🐉 Imagine having your own panel of experts helping you test, challenge and strengthen your business idea.

Secure and resilient infrastructure in the GCC: Market opportunities for UK businesses

Discover how UK expertise in security, resilience and critical infrastructure protection can unlock opportunities across one of the world's fastest-growing infrastructure markets.

AI adoption in practice: Making it work in your team

Learn how to choose a focused use case, involve the right stakeholders, define responsibilities, train users and introduce proportionate governance without slowing innovation.

SEO Fundamentals Webinar

When you built your website, you likely created it with your users in mind, trying to make it easy for them to find and explore your content.

Fhunded - Founder X Funder event in collaboration with Playfair

Join us for an exciting Founder X Funder event at Fraser House Hub for founders and funders!

Chorley Networking for Women

We celebrated a DECADE of networking in 2025, come and join us for supportive and friendly Networking for Women in Business no matter where you are on your Business journey!

3 Day IOSH Managing Safely (Day Release)

7th, 14th and 21st October 2026. Includes IOSH registration, manual, certification and lunch/refreshments.

Sales Xchange Session 1 - Physiology of Selling

The Sales Xchange is a new programme from North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce, delivered in partnership with Sellology.

Marketing your online business

Learn how to attract more customers online with practical digital marketing strategies and tools.

Preston Tech Connection: The Tech Resistance

This Preston Tech Connection meet-up we're talking The Tech Resistance. Tech is moving fast — maybe even too fast?

Level 3 Mental Health First Aider Training (2 day)

This course will teach learners how to spot and help someone who is going through mental health challenges.

Employment Rights Act changes: October 2026 implementation and the road to 2027

Stay ahead of Employment Rights Act 2025 reforms with a practical update on key changes already in force, upcoming changes in October, and what to expect through 2027.

US tax made simple

Get a clear understanding of the key U.S. tax considerations for UK businesses entering or expanding in the American market.

Unique Ladies Networking Group - Hyndburn

Unique Ladies Networking works because relationships are made, the costs are low, the venue is accessible and these women understand that to get business this way, they must follow up each and every conversation, get to know the other ladies in the room and the business happens!

Pendle Business Week: Northlight Coffee Morning

Start Pendle Business Week with coffee, conversation and new connections at Northlight. Meet local businesses, share ideas and find out what’s happening across Pendle’s business community.

Pendle Business Week: AI in the Modern Workplace

Turn AI confusion into confidence. This practical, hands-on session will help your team understand what AI can really do and how to use it safely, responsibly and effectively in the modern workplace.

Pendle Business Week: So, You Want to Start a Business?

Have a business idea but not sure where to start? This free workshop will help you test your idea, understand the practical steps involved and build the confidence to move forward with your new venture.

US food and drink market overview and FDA compliance tips

Unlock US market opportunities while navigating FDA compliance, logistics, and market entry requirements with confidence.

Pendle Business Week: Invest in Pendle Part 2

Discover the opportunities within Pendle’s growing visitor economy. Hear from businesses and local leaders across leisure, tourism and hospitality, explore what makes Pendle a great place to invest, and make new connections.

Lancashire Economic Breakfast

Join business leaders from across the county for Lancashire’s premier economic breakfast event, designed to give you the insight, connections and confidence to plan for the quarter ahead and beyond.

The Business Briefing: Due Diligence

Join us for The Business Briefing — an event series from Brabners, a leading UK law firm, and Lancaster University Management School’s Entrepreneurs in Residence.

Pendle Business Week: Mock Grievance

See a realistic workplace grievance process unfold from start to finish. This interactive session will help business owners and managers understand how to structure meetings, ask the right questions and handle sensitive conversations fairly and confidently.

Pendle Business Week: Diversification into Aerospace

Explore how your engineering, manufacturing or supply chain capabilities could open doors into the aerospace sector. Gain practical insight into industry requirements, standards and the support available to help you diversify and grow.

Lady Boss Programme

Do you love cooking, baking or creating food that people always ask for?

Pendle Business Week: Networking in a Nutshell

Build confidence, make better connections and get more from networking. This practical session will help you introduce yourself with impact, start meaningful conversations, sharpen your pitch and follow up effectively.

Pendle Business Week: The Lancashire Skills Pledge

Discover the free support available through the Lancashire Skills Pledge to help your business recruit, upskill and inspire. Learn about apprenticeships, school and college engagement, recruitment support and ways to strengthen your social value impact.

Lancashire Cyber Attack Hydra Simulation

Is Your Business Ready for a Cyber Attack?

Preston Tech Connection Coworking Day

Preston Tech Connection Coworking Day This is a regular meet up for anyone working in or connected with tech.

HR Xchange in Partnership with Harrison Drury

The Chamber HR Xchange is your opportunity to join engaging discussions on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in human resources.

Pendle Business Week: Taming the Digital Chaos

Take back control of your digital working day. This practical session will share simple ways to manage email, reduce distractions, protect your focus and build healthier digital habits you can put into practice straight away.

Pendle Business Week: Think in Ink: A Beginner’s Guide to Visual Note-Taking

Learn how to capture ideas using simple drawings, words and symbols. This practical beginner-friendly session will help you make meetings, events and planning sessions clearer, more engaging and easier to remember.

Pendle Business Week: The Ecosystem Mindset

Discover how stronger business relationships can drive innovation and growth. Using the Ecosystem Mindset framework, this practical session will help you identify the connections that matter and make better use of them to move your business forward.

A Fireside Chat – Resilience, Legacy and Leadership

Join us for a powerful conversation with Gillian Hall, third-generation cheesemaker and owner of Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses. In 2023, disaster struck when a devastating fire destroyed part of the family’s Lancashire dairy business - a company built over three generations since 1932.

In Person LCC Meet the Buyer Event for Children's Services

Calling All Local Businesses and Suppliers working within Children's Services! We’re excited to announce our upcoming Meet the Buyer event aimed at strengthening relationships with local organisations across the county.

WILD (Women in Lancaster Digital Network) - is turning 3! - Time for a party...

Join WILD as it celebrates is 3rd birthday and relaunch. As part of the event, Dr Joanna Taylor will lead a thought-provoking workshop exploring bewilderment and the value of uncertainty.

Lancashire Digital Tech Breakfast

Tech Breakfast - Kick off your day energised, connected and meeting new people!

Accelerating research and development: The competitive advantage of clinical trials in Australia

Discover how Australia’s clinical trial ecosystem can accelerate development, reduce costs, and boost global credibility for innovative therapies.

Commercial Planning Application Workshop - Lunchtime Live

Thinking about expanding, relocating, opening new premises or changing how you use a commercial property?

Opportunities in the North American Advanced Manufacturing sector

Explore opportunities in North America’s fast-growing advanced manufacturing sector, with a focus on key industries like automotive, EVs, aerospace, and space.

Mock Tribunal – step inside an employment tribunal… without the risk

Jump into the drama of an employment tribunal and see how it all works – no stress, just real insights and fun!

How to use AI to research your market and competition

Explore how AI-driven research frameworks to process and interpret large datasets, uncover consumer behaviour patterns, track emerging trends, and map competitive landscapes.

UK National Defence Procurement & Supply Chain Summit 2026

Connecting government, industry and suppliers to turn policy, procurement reform and the Defence Investment Plan into real, contracted opportunity

Preston Freelancer Meet-Up: October

Preston Freelancer MeetUp and Coworking Day This is a regular meet up for freelancers, home workers, solopreneurs and alike.

North West Business Expo 2026

The North West Business Expo is back and promises to be bigger and better than ever before! The exhibition returns to The Premier Suite, within Bolton Wanderers Football Club on Friday the 23rd of October 2026 with 2 floors packed with exhibitors.

Lancashire County Council – Meet the Buyer Webinar

Calling All Local Businesses and Suppliers! We’re excited to announce our upcoming Meet the Buyer event aimed at strengthening relationships with local organisations across the county.

UK-India Diagnostics Cohort 2026

Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber and the UK Department for Business and Trade (DBT) invite a select cohort of up to 10 high-potential UK innovators to join an exclusive UK delegation to India.

Lancashire Cyber Attack Hydra Simulation

Is Your Business Ready for a Cyber Attack?

Australian infrastructure: Are there opportunities for UK companies?

Explore Australia’s infrastructure landscape and discover where UK companies can tap into upcoming projects and opportunities.

Budget Live: In partnership with Forbes Solicitors

This is the county’s most unique and exclusive Budget event, which you can’t miss!

In Person LCC Meet the Buyer Event for Construction and Assets Services

Calling All Local Businesses and Supplier working within the Construction and Assets industry ! We’re excited to announce our upcoming Meet the Buyer event aimed at strengthening relationships with local organisations across the county.

Lancashire Cyber Attack Hydra Simulation

Is Your Business Ready for a Cyber Attack?