Workshops

Designing your AI Roadmap: A step-by-step guide for growing businesses

Build an AI roadmap, prioritise opportunities, and drive business growth.

Understanding Commodity Codes: A practical guide to classification and compliance

Understand commodity codes, classify goods accurately, and ensure trade compliance.

Reset and Restore: A Free 45-Minute Wellbeing Circle for Women in Business

Running a business or a professional career can end up taking all your energy.

E-invoicing unpacked: How to prepare for global compliance

Understand global e-invoicing requirements, ensure compliance, and future-proof operations effectively.

What the EU Deforestation Regulation means for your business

Understand EU deforestation rules, manage compliance risks, and prepare effectively.

Winning business in schools throughout Asia and the Middle East

Explore school markets, trends, and growth opportunities across Asia, Middle East.

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.

Manage your Social Media presence on a budget

Become a social media ninja and learn top tips and effective strategies on how to grow the reach of your business amongst global customers, on your social media channels.

Expanding operations in the US: Choosing the right state

Choose the right US state using costs, talent, and incentives.

Build a digital marketing strategy to drive sales and grow your business

Explore core digital marketing methodologies to increase traffic and resonate with your customers.

Digital vs Paper ATA Carnets: A practical guide to a smooth journey

Understand ATA Carnets with this practical session, learn how to use digital and paper Carnets seamlessly to move goods internationally without duties or delays.

Reset and Restore: A Free 45-Minute Wellbeing Circle for Women in Business

Running a business or a professional career can end up taking all your energy.

AI search in the US

Boost AI visibility in US markets through SEO and content.

Create More Time, Focus and Capacity

Create more time, focus and capacity in your business. This practical Growth Session will help you reduce firefighting, improve productivity and build a better weekly rhythm for sustainable growth.

An Introduction to the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)

Understand EU Cyber Resilience Act requirements and achieve product compliance.

The Pro Club - Lancaster Meet up

The Procurement Club Meet up in Lancaster — a space for driven professionals to connect, collaborate, and grow together.

LinkedIn: The ultimate lead generator

Wondering how you can make the most of LinkedIn to find new customers around the world? We'll be providing help, advice, and strategies for effective lead generation in international markets.

Digital Burnley Tech Summer Social

Late Summer Friday Social - Pizza. Poker Faces. People As summer draws to a close, we're bringing together Burnley's tech, digital and innovation community for a relaxed Friday social at ONE Slater Terrace.

EU product safety: Understanding GSPR and CE marking

Selling consumer products into the EU? Join this practical webinar to understand GPSR, CE marking and the steps your business needs to take to stay compliant and keep goods moving.

Enterprise Launch Programme: Be Business Ready!

' How to take your business from an interesting idea to reality' 🐉 Love watching Dragons’ Den? 🐉 Imagine having your own panel of experts helping you test, challenge and strengthen your business idea.

Mediation in the workplace: a practical guide to resolving conflict

Workplace conflict is inevitable - how you respond to it makes all the difference. Join Lancashire-based employment law and HR specialists, AfterAthena, for a practical and insightful look at how mediation can be used to resolve disputes, rebuild working relationships, and support a more positive and productive workplace culture.

Reset and Restore: A Free 45-Minute Wellbeing Circle for Women in Business

Running a business or a professional career can end up taking all your energy.

Effective Instagram to fuel your business growth

Want the secrets to success behind those businesses who have boosted their profits by selling on Instagram? Come join us for easy, practical tips on how you can use Instagram to sell your products or services to new customers, both in the UK and across the globe.

Preston Tech Connection Hot Takes

This Preston Tech Connection meet-up we're talking Hot Takes in Tech. We all have a view on a topic. It might be controversial, unpopular or thought provoking. Do we say it out loud though?

Free Business Growth Workshop - Practical Ideas. Expert Support. Valuable Connections

Businesses are facing constant change, from evolving customer expectations to rapid advances in AI.

Customs compliance in practice: What customs audits really look like

Hosted by Chamber Customs experts, this practical session will explain what customs audits look like in reality and what businesses should expect if selected for review.

Powering opportunity: UK business prospects in Brazil's energy transition

Brazil generates ~85% of its electricity from renewables, discover the booming market for UK businesses in wind, solar, green hydrogen, EVs, and data centres.

Tech Voices: The Human Side of Tech

Tech Voices brings together technology professionals, leaders, founders, and innovators to share ideas, experiences, and lessons from the front line of tech.

Lancashire Cyber Attack Hydra Simulation

Is Your Business Ready for a Cyber Attack?

Rossendale Digital Build Fast Connections

Build Fast Connections is a high-energy structured (but effective and fun) tech and digital networking session

3 Day IOSH Managing Safely (Day Release)

15th, 22nd and 29th September 2026. Includes IOSH registration, manual, certification and lunch/refreshments.

The importance of Market Research, stay ahead through gaining intelligence from competitor markets

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

Business Twilight Networking Event

Join us for an engaging networking event focused on helping SMEs grow, innovate and make valuable new connections.

Decoding the Southeast Asia e-commerce market for UK brands

This webinar explores Southeast Asia’s e-commerce landscape, uncovering the latest trends, e-commerce innovation and strategic playbooks to help UK brands successfully scale across the region.

Webinar - Energy Security 2026: Protecting Your Organisation from Global Shocks and Volatile Markets

UK plc has been asleep at the wheel when it comes to the security of Energy supply and price.

The CIPD Branch in Lancashire launch event

A fantastic opportunity to network and attend round table events covering a range of HR topics.

Sales & Marketing Skills Bootcamp

Our Sales & Marketing Skills Bootcamp is designed to equip self-employed individuals with the practical skills and knowledge needed to grow their business.

Turn Time into Profit with AI: Reclaim a Day a Week and Add to Your Bottom Line

Turn Time into Profit with AI: Reclaim a Day a Week and Add to Your Bottom Line  AI is no longer something to think about for the future.

Lancashire Cyber Attack Hydra Simulation

Is Your Business Ready for a Cyber Attack?

Leading People Well: Building Confident and Effective Managers

Leading People Well: Building Confident and Effective Managers

Starting your own business with Carole Garrett BEM

Starting your own business with Carole Garrett BEM Thinking about starting a business?

Creating an Inclusive Workplace: Practical Steps for Every Business

Creating an Inclusive Workplace: Practical Steps for Every Business

Managing Finance for Start-ups

Managing Finance for Start-ups with Kathryn Gillam This practical workshop is designed to help small businesses build confidence in managing their cash flow.

Co Work & Connection

Connect. Collaborate. Grow. Join us at Room & Power  for a unique co-working and networking experience as part of Burnley Business Week.

Raise your profile: Linkedin for Business Growth

Raise Your Profile: LinkedIn for Business Growth Most professionals have a LinkedIn profile.

How to run a successful event: From Idea to Impact

How to Run a Successful Event: From Idea to Impact

Lancashire Tech Talk - The AI Stack: the reality

Developers. Products. Platforms. What's really changing?

Workplace Wellbeing Open Day at Forrest Hills, Lancaster University

The Workplace Wellbeing Open Day 2026 at Forrest Hills, Lancaster University is a free interactive event designed to support healthier, happier and more productive workplaces.

Managing Performance in a Changing Employment Law Landscape

Managing Performance in a Changing Employment Law Landscape

Canva for Business: Create your own professional marketing materials

Canva for Business: Create your own professional marketing materials

How to Turn Social Media into Sales

How to Turn Social Media into Sales Social media should be doing more than generating likes - it should be generating enquiries, leads and sales.

Workplace Wellbeing: Building Resilience, Preventing Burnout and Supporting Your People

Workplace Wellbeing: Building Resilience, Preventing Burnout and Supporting Your People

Unlock Your Business Growth Potential with Help to Grow – September start

Boost your leadership skills and business growth through the Help to Grow: Management Programme, delivered by the University of Lancashire.

Cyber Security in Action: Protect Your Burnley Business

Cyber Security in Action: Protect Your Burnley Business  Enhance your organisation’s cyber resilience at this interactive

Lancashire Cyber Attack Hydra Simulation

Is Your Business Ready for a Cyber Attack?

People's Emergency Briefing

Screening of the People's Emergency Briefing followed by a facilitated discussion, examples of local good practice and support available

Burnley Climate Week 2026 People's Emergency Briefing

As part of Burney Climate Week there will be a 50 minute showing of the People's Emergency Briefing.

Employment law webinar – an update on key ERA 2025 changes

The employment law landscape is evolving – are you ready for what’s coming next?

Future Makers Lancashire

How collaboration, technology and innovation drive business growth. Are you a Future Maker?

Measuring exhibition ROI: What to track, what to ignore and how to prove success

Gain the tools to prove exhibition success by tracking the metrics that matter, demonstrating commercial impact and making a stronger case for future investment.

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.

Powerhouses Of Tech And Innovation: A North West Story

Powerhouses of Tech & Innovation: A North West Story Preston and the North West have always been places where things are built-from industrial powerhouses of the past to the digital innovators shaping the future.

Lancashire Cyber Attack Hydra Simulation

Is Your Business Ready for a Cyber Attack?

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!

3 Day IOSH Managing Safely (Day Release)

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

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.

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!

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.

Lancashire Cyber Attack Hydra Simulation

Is Your Business Ready for a Cyber Attack?

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.

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. In a world where smartphones and AI can give us instant answers, we have fewer opportunities to sit with not knowing. Yet uncertainty is also where creativity, surprise and new ideas can thrive. Taking inspiration from historic women’s writing, Joanna will guide us through a series of simple prompts and activities designed to help us explore uncertainty in a safe, supportive and creative way. Open to women and non-binary people working in digital, creative, marketing, tech or business around Lancaster More information and sign up at the link.

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!

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

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 Cyber Attack Hydra Simulation

Is Your Business Ready for a Cyber Attack?

Building Business Across Borders: Lessons from China, Nepal, Cambodia and Vietnam

Join the Entrepreneurs in Residence and three business leaders from China, Nepal and Vietnam for an honest conversation about building careers and ventures between Asia and the UK.

Lancashire Cyber Attack Hydra Simulation

Is Your Business Ready for a Cyber Attack?

A Fireside Chat – The Accidental Entrepreneur

Join us for a Fireside Chat with Professor Ian Gordon, entrepreneur, educator and proud Lancaster University alumnus.

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!

Rossendale Digital Build Fast Connections

Build Fast Connections is a high-energy structured (but effective and fun) tech and digital networking session

Investment Readiness Workshop

When. Why. How Raising investment is not always the right answer - but understanding when, why and how to raise can be a game-changing skill for ambitious founders.

Ready to Raise?

In collaboration with Fhunded the Lancashire Roadshow is back! Ready to Raise? 2026 Thinking about raising investment?

The Business Briefing: Employment Law

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. Bringing together legal expertise and entrepreneurial insight, the series explores key themes in starting and scaling a business.

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! Come along, you will love it!