HEY LEP appoints Business Engagement Board as key private sector advisory partner

The newly formed Hull and East Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (HEY LEP) has appointed the region’s Business Engagement Board (BEB) as its main private sector advisory partner. This follows the creation of the LEP and the appointment of 12 new board members on April 1. The BEB, chaired by Thomas Martin, chairman of Arco, was formed in autumn 2020 to ensure continuity in communications...

First national broadcast hailed as trailblazer for levelling up

The woman who fronted the first national live TV show to be broadcast in Leeds will tell a Humber Business Week audience of the need for more industries – and the Government – to invest in the north. Steph McGovern will use the platform presented by the Elevenses series of interviews to highlight the “desperate need” for levelling up and to increase the amount of public investment in northern...

Sewell Estates announces plans to triple investment in young intakes

Yorkshire based Sewell Estates has announced plans to triple its recruitment of graduates, apprentices and trainees over the next five years, in support of local economic recovery. The group of companies recently secured a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity and is well known for championing social mobility. Managing director Jo Barnes (left) said, given the exceptional...

FEO ‘over the moon’ to receive Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

Volunteers from For Entrepreneurs Only (FEO) based in Hull have been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. FEO is a unique collective of business-owner volunteers, making a contribution of £3.5 billion to the East Riding economy by way of entrepreneurs helping other entrepreneurs to start, adapt and grow businesses. Jan...

Baroness and broadcaster join guests for Elevenses interviews at Humber Business Week

A baroness, a broadcaster and a brace of owners of Super League clubs will share stories of achievement and adversity in a series of interviews that promises to be a highlight of Humber Business Week. Also taking part in the Elevenses events is an entrepreneur with a track record of transforming businesses around the world, and the programme will conclude with interviewer Paul Sewell – chairman...