Captain Cook Breakfast Meeting

Captain Cook Community meets once a month — local businesses round one table, one per trade, sharing work and advice. Guests are welcome. £15 covers your food and the room, there’s no hard sell, and you’ll be introduced to the people worth meeting.

Washington Small Business Connection

Relaxed networking for small businesses, sole traders, freelancers, side hustlers, and working parents. Drop in and connect. Washington Small Business Connection: Informal Evening Meetup Tired of missing out on business networking because everything happens at 10:00 AM? People buy from people, and building local connections is vital for any growing venture. But if you work […]

Crack On Club – Networking & Co-working

The Crack On Club is a full day networking and co-working event for small business owners who are fed up of doing it all on their own. THE CRACK ON CLUB By Expansions Coaching 📅 Thursday 3rd December ⏰ 9.30am – 4pm 📍 Twenty Twenty, Bigg Market, Newcastle 🎟 £25 | Limited to 20 people […]

Soft Landing – South Lakes

This is a different kind of networking event for business owners who want deeper conversations and practical support. The time we spend together will be focused on honest conversations about the real struggles we face in business, sharing openly, building meaningful connections, and helping each other find practical solutions. Bring a business challenge with you. […]

Soft Landing – South Lakes

This is a different kind of networking event for business owners who want deeper conversations and practical support. The time we spend together will be focused on honest conversations about the real struggles we face in business, sharing openly, building meaningful connections, and helping each other find practical solutions. Bring a business challenge with you. […]

Soft Landing – South Lakes

This is a different kind of networking event for business owners who want deeper conversations and practical support. The time we spend together will be focused on honest conversations about the real struggles we face in business, sharing openly, building meaningful connections, and helping each other find practical solutions. Bring a business challenge with you. […]

Soft Landing – South Lakes

This is a different kind of networking event for business owners who want deeper conversations and practical support. The time we spend together will be focused on honest conversations about the real struggles we face in business, sharing openly, building meaningful connections, and helping each other find practical solutions. Bring a business challenge with you. […]

Soft Landing – South Lakes

This is a different kind of networking event for business owners who want deeper conversations and practical support. The time we spend together will be focused on honest conversations about the real struggles we face in business, sharing openly, building meaningful connections, and helping each other find practical solutions. Bring a business challenge with you. […]

Soft Landing – South Lakes

This is a different kind of networking event for business owners who want deeper conversations and practical support. The time we spend together will be focused on honest conversations about the real struggles we face in business, sharing openly, building meaningful connections, and helping each other find practical solutions. Bring a business challenge with you. […]

Soft Landing – South Lakes

This is a different kind of networking event for business owners who want deeper conversations and practical support. The time we spend together will be focused on honest conversations about the real struggles we face in business, sharing openly, building meaningful connections, and helping each other find practical solutions. Bring a business challenge with you. […]

Soft Landing – South Lakes

This is a different kind of networking event for business owners who want deeper conversations and practical support. The time we spend together will be focused on honest conversations about the real struggles we face in business, sharing openly, building meaningful connections, and helping each other find practical solutions. Bring a business challenge with you. […]

Soft Landing – South Lakes

This is a different kind of networking event for business owners who want deeper conversations and practical support. The time we spend together will be focused on honest conversations about the real struggles we face in business, sharing openly, building meaningful connections, and helping each other find practical solutions. Bring a business challenge with you. […]

Soft Landing – South Lakes

This is a different kind of networking event for business owners who want deeper conversations and practical support. The time we spend together will be focused on honest conversations about the real struggles we face in business, sharing openly, building meaningful connections, and helping each other find practical solutions. Bring a business challenge with you. […]

Founders’ Lunch

Expect an intimate, fast-moving and energising experience packed with conversation, inspiration and opportunities to kickstart the new year! Founders’ Lunch is back in the 2027 calendar. This isn’t a sit and listen affair – you’ll rotate table three times, giving you the chance to hear from a diverse range of founders, dive into multiple conversations, […]

Christmas Member Lunch – The Impeccable Pig

To celebrate this Christmas, And all of your success. We’re inviting you out, For food in excess. We’re asking for the classics, Like ‘Mistletoe and Wine’. All you need to do, is come along And have a good time. So this December, Make sure you are free. Because you’re definitely invited, To our Christmas party!

Christmas Member Lunch – The Broad Chare

To celebrate this Christmas, And all of your success. We’re inviting you out, For food in excess. We’re asking for the classics, Like ‘Mistletoe and Wine’. All you need to do, is come along And have a good time. So this December, Make sure you are free. Because you’re definitely invited, To our Christmas party!

On-site Visit to Nissan

Step inside one of the North East’s most iconic businesses and see how a world-class operation performs at scale. Since production began in 1986, Nissan has grown into the UK’s largest car manufacturing plant, producing millions of vehicles and employing thousands of people across the region. Along the way, it has earned a reputation for […]

Focus Dinner with Andy Hook, Hooked-on Group

Andy Hook is one of the North East’s most respected hospitality entrepreneurs. Originally from Cambridge, Andy trained as an engineer before moving to the North East to take up a manufacturing leadership role in South Shields. That move, which reconnected him with his family roots in the region, would ultimately shape his future in hospitality. […]

Spinout Spotlight

Some of the region’s most exciting future businesses will begin with research, innovation, and technical expertise developed inside our universities. But moving from a promising spinout to a successful company takes more than the idea itself. It takes entrepreneurial experience, commercial judgement, networks, mentoring, and the right conversations at the right time. In partnership with […]

ScaleUp Summit – Tees Valley

The Middlesbrough ScaleUp Summit will bring together some of the region’s most recognisable entrepreneurs and business leaders for a practical conversation about growth. Hosted as part of North East Entrepreneurship Week, and backed by the ScaleUp Institute’s Scale Up Britain campaign, the British Business Bank, and Tees Valley Combined Authority, the Summit will explore how […]

ScaleUp Summit – Sunderland

The Sunderland ScaleUp Summit brings together entrepreneurs and business leaders for a half-day event focused on the realities of building and growing ambitious businesses from the North East. Through honest, entrepreneur-led conversations, speakers will share what they have learned from building businesses in sectors including technology, sport, science, energy, and professional services. Backed by the […]

ScaleUp Summit – Newcastle

ScaleUp Summits are half-day events bringing entrepreneurs together to explore the realities of building and growing ambitious businesses from the North East. In Newcastle, we will hear directly from founders and business leaders who have made decisions about growth, people, finance and place. Together, they will explore the questions that matter to any entrepreneur with […]

Mixer: Winter 2027

Mixer is a quarterly interior design networking event in North East England. It’s for interior design professionals and the artisans, makers, suppliers and service providers they rely on to bring projects to life. It exists to build a stronger creative network that can, in turn, strengthen the North East economy. Mixer is a non-profit event […]

Community Co-working & Networking Days

Join us for Community Co-working & Networking Days – work, connect, and build relationships with local professionals! Community Co-working & Networking Days Working in partnership with Darlington Works Space at Business Central – Join us for some in-person fun where you can work side-by-side with local creatives and entrepreneurs here in Darlington! It’s all about […]