AD:VENTURE provides fully funded (Free to you!) support for people looking to start and grow a business.

Supporting start-ups and young businesses

AD:VENTURE is here to help make your business start-up a success!

They provide free support to people starting a new business, or for those who have a young business (Under 3 years of trading) and want help to grow.

How is it free? It’s because the programme is fully funded by partners from across the region. You can see more information about partners in the FAQs page.

So – What do they offer and how can you register for our support?

Below is a list of all of support services with a brief summary of what they can offer!

AD:VENTURE – Growth Programme

This programme is ideal for businesses who are trading with other businesses and who want to build the business and grow the team.

Start Up Leeds – Leeds Library and BIPC 

This programme of support is aimed at Leeds residents wanting to start a new business, or needing help to grow your new businesses, and operates from the Leeds Library and a range of other library hubs across the Leeds district.

ACCELERATE at Leeds Beckett University

This programme is perfect for B2B businesses who are trading and want to grow and improve their business.

Spawforths are an award winning and innovative multidisciplinary team of architects, planners and master planners who are passionate about creating beautiful places which will stand the test of time.

The team are currently promoting over £12 billion worth of development through the planning system including over 40,000 new homes and 25 million square feet of commercial floor space. Of these their architects are delivering 1 million sq ft of commercial floor space worth £145 million and 650 new homes worth £140 million throughout the North of England and the Midlands.

• Planning
  At the heart of the business is the largest independent planning consultancy in the north employing a large team of chartered town planners with expertise in local plans, development control, appeals and environmental assessments.
• Masterplanning
  Sitting alongside the planners is a dedicated masterplanning team, all of which have post graduate degrees in urban design with dual qualifications in related disciplines such as architecture.
• Architecture
  Employing only chartered architects with membership of both ARB and the RIBA, the architects regularly ensure that their outline planning proposals are deliverable as well as delivering high quality and innovative one-off buildings.
• Consultation
  They have a dedicated in-house team of community consultation professionals who are familiar with the challenges and opportunities associated with trying to deliver large scale development projects within or adjacent to established communities.
• Project Management
  For large and/or complex projects, they often provide a full or partial project management service to clients, assisting with the appointment and management of other consultants and managing the project programme and deliverables.

Our Collaboration of the Month winners for June are Family Fit UK CIC who submitted their collaboration with Blossom Training & Development and Bring Me To Life- Women’s Wellness CIC. We Are Wakefield Chair, Clare Thornton, judged their entry as the first ever Collab of the Month winner!

It was a difficult decision with amazing collab’s between Tagtiv8 Ltd and Production Haus; Recent Beans working with Castleford Tigers and also The Yorkshire Handbag Company!!

We Are Wakefield members showing that teamwork really does make the dream work!!! We love hearing your stories – tell us yours: [email protected]

Founded with a deep understanding of the UK payment industry at its core, Dojo’s goal is to empower hard-working businesses to focus on the things that really matter to them – by seamlessly taking care of the things that don’t.

Co-owners Anne Lockwood and Andy Turner firmly believe that recruitment is a three-way partnerships made up of clients, candidates and themselves. This ethos is what the First Choice approach is built on and with an unwavering commitment to quality of service and raising the recruitment standards bar, they have a dedicated team who genuinely care.

If you think all recruitment agencies are the same, think again.

Get in touch with First Choice today and let us show you how recruitment really should be.

Recruitment industry professionals have highlighted these three tips, as being ways to overcome some of the familiar challenges faced when recruiting.

They highlight how “We Are Wakefield’s” member Postify Ltd has a solution to help you in these challenging times:

• Increase the visibility of your job vacancy adverts

It is good to advertise on major job boards, but can you be sure that your ideal candidates are signed up to the same job board that you are using?

Postify will post your vacancies to 100+ job boards. Including: Reed, Total Jobs, C.V Library, Indeed, Adzuna, Glassdoor, Monster, Indeed Sponsored, Jooble, JobCentre, Zip Recruiter, Euro Jobs, Trovit and Careers4A.

They can also integrate your Facebook and Twitter accounts into your “free” Automated Tracking System.

• Invest in an ATS

An ATS can streamline your hiring process by making it possible for your hiring team to collaborate and keep all candidate data in one place. This saves valuable time and keeps your email channels free for other business usage.

Postify’s “free” ATS has built-in templates, which help you post job adverts and send emails to candidates fast, without writing the text from scratch every time.

• Build a talent pool

Talent pipelines are groups of candidates who have already applied for your positions. They may not have been successful first time around, but you have highlighted them as having the right skills and capabilities for future roles. This can help you reduce time to hire and save you money on your future recruiting costs. You can build a talent pipeline by using Postify’s “free” ATS

It allows you to rank and store your candidates and will be stronger if the candidates know that you will be considering them in the future and if you are staying in touch with them.

Catch up with Nick at our events and Check out Postify’s website here!

Hatfeild Hall is the ideal venue for your event. It is the perfect place to host weddings, conferences, ceremonies and celebrations of all types. An attractive 18th century historic building, located in a beautiful setting and approached from a long, sweeping, tree lined driveway.

The hall has different rooms of varying sizes, so can accommodate parties and groups of all sizes. With excellent on site catering facilities, they can offer either standard menus or food tailored to your specific needs.

All events are organised and managed by one of the team’s experienced hospitality coordinators who will also be with you on the day.

Hatfeild Hall is within easy reach of Wakefield and the surrounding towns, and is also easily accessible from all the major road networks nearby (M1, A1, M62). A large car park is available for your guests.

Golf in Yorkshire rarely gets better. Set within 145 acres of glorious Yorkshire countryside, with streams and lakes to add a little spice, each hole presents its own challenge to both high and low handicappers. A practice ground, clubhouse, and a superb golf shop make it the perfect place to enjoy golf in Yorkshire.

Designed by Patrick Dawson, the architect of some of the holes on the famous Augusta National course in America, it offers a true test of golfing ability and with the ninth hole returning to the clubhouse it makes NGC appealing to societies and visiting parties wanting to play 27 holes.

The Hatfeild Hall of today has been tastefully restored, incorporating many of the original designs. This magnificent one million pound clubhouse, with conferencing facility and ability to comfortably cater for over 100 guests, has retained much of its Gothic charm, whilst ensuring the needs of the twenty first century are more than adequately met.