Boost Your Business helps to support you and your business in a way that goes beyond just financial services. The series of events bring together a carefully selected and unique set of speakers to offer inspiration, experience and masterclasses in new skills – all with the aim of helping you to grow, progress and succeed.

You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions, as well as discuss your challenges and opportunities with like minded business owners

The team of local Business Growth Enablers will be on hand to help connect you to the right people and resources to best meet your business needs.

The event will be at Emirates, Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester M16 0PX

What’s happening on the day?

• 8:30 a.m Networking breakfast
• 9:10 a.m Welcome and introductions with Mark Winters, Regional Managing Director for Business Banking in the North of England
• 9:30 a.m Hear from a local entrepreneur about their journey, sharing their business experience and learnings (TBC)
• 10:00 a.m Benefit from a pitching masterclass delivered by Entrepreneurial Development Manager Matt West, in collaboration with Entrepreneurial Spark the worlds largest free people accelerator for start-up and scaleup businesses.
• 10:25 a.m Presentation from Daren Pickering, lead innovation architect at Worldpay, the UK’s leading payment provider. Hear how the growth of cashless payments will impact your business and the options now and in the future as to how your customers can pay you.
• 10:50 a.m Morning coffee break
• 11:30 a.m Get inspiration from FreeAgent CEO Ed Molyneux, who will discuss digital accounting and the future of financial management for your business
• 11:55 a.m Experience a masterclass from Google on how to develop your digital skills and reach new customers online
• 12:35 p.m Seize the opportunity to ask any of our speakers a question in a Q&A and live panel discussion
• 13:05 p.m Lunch with the opportunity to network with hundreds of like-minded businesses and make new connections
• 2 p.m Close