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 […]

North East Entrepreneurship Week

Part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, North East Entrepreneurship Week is a region-wide programme of events and activities, brought together by the Entrepreneurs’ Forum, where entrepreneurs share real experience, founders make new connections and access practical support, schools meet local role models, and partners from across the region come together with one simple aim: to show […]

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 […]

AI Workshop: Complexity to Confidence

Join Ross Stevenson for a practical workshop exploring what he has learned about ROI from working with AI inside some of the world’s biggest organisations. An expert in AI enablement, Ross helps business leaders to build the fluency to use AI in their work and lead adoption across their organisation. Sharing how those lessons can be applied by growing businesses, this interactive workshop will help you cut through the noise and […]

Teesside Property and Construction Lunch – Housing, Investment and Infrastructure 2027

This event is directly marketed and aimed at those with key interests within a property, construction and business environments – professional intermediaries B2B, Electrical Contractors, Engineering Contractors, Security, Environment Consultants, Finance Brokers, Landlords, Estate Agents, Property Agents, Service Providers, Landowners, Commercial Agents, Developers, Architects, Accountants, Chartered Surveyors, Banks, Construction, Building Contractors, Investors, Corporate Finance, Recruitment […]

New Member Online Meet and Greet

If you’re new to the Entrepreneurs’ Forum, join us on Teams for our next New Member Meet & Greet session, where you’ll get to know some fellow members of your community. We’re all here to support each other through the ups and downs of business, be part of an energetic and ambitious group and build […]

SAVE THE DATE – Entrepreneurial Awards

Get ready to raise your glass to the entrepreneurs who are rewriting the rules – the trailblazers, pioneers, and innovators of the North East. For over 22 years, our Entrepreneurial Awards have recognised and celebrated the region’s best business talent, with finalists representing every stage of the business journey – from ‘Ones to Watch’ to […]

November club event

Guest booking: We enable six guests to attend each of our events. If you have not attended one of our events in the past, and would like to come to an event to find out if the club is something you would like to be part of, you will be able to register your place on […]

October club event

Guest booking: We enable six guests to attend each of our events. If you have not attended one of our events in the past, and would like to come to an event to find out if the club is something you would like to be part of, you will be able to register your place on […]

Community Voice in Social Enterprise

This workshop will explore how you build your social enterprise around the people you want to support. We’ll explore: How you find your community (mapping: B2B vs B2C) Governance; ensuring your accountability is connected to your beneficiary voice. Operations; ensuring your activities are fit for purpose & built with your beneficiaries. Impact measurement and evaluation; […]