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LUMO detail how you can use Patent Box to help businesses capitalise on their R&D activities

Last week Lee Quarzi and Roger Tipple from LUMO had the opportunity to share their knowledge and experience about patents and patent box with the The R&D Community Ltd.The article is a really good read so if you are interested in this topic you may like to click on the link below to find out more: https://bit.ly/47iAYDkIf anyone has any question on this topic the LUMO team would be happy to have a conversation with you. Email info@lumo.tax...

LAND OF OAK & IRON - CHRISTMAS MEET THE MAKER MARKET 2023

VENUE: Land of Oak & Iron Heritage Centre, Spa Well Road, Winlaton Mill, NE21 6RUDATE & TIME: Sunday, 3rd December 2023 - 10:00-16:00Land of Oak & Iron are excited to host our Christmas Meet the Maker Market, bringing together some of our past Meet the Makers and new local artists and creatives too!We love hosting our seasonal Meet the Maker Markets, they’re great events for buying hand crafted items, getting inspired and meeting new local makers and artists – we’re e...

LAND OF OAK & IRON - AUTUMN MEET THE MAKER MARKET 2023

VENUE: Land of Oak & Iron Heritage Centre, Spa Well Road, Winlaton Mill, Tyne & Wear, NE21 6RUDATE & TIME: Saturday, 23rd September 2023 - 10:00-16:00Land of Oak & Iron are excited to host our Autumn Meet the Maker Market, bringing together some of our past Meet the Makers and new local artists and creatives too!We love hosting our seasonal Meet the Maker Markets, they’re great events for buying hand crafted items, getting inspired and meeting new local makers and art...

LAND OF OAK & IRON - SUMMER MEET THE MAKER MARKET 2023

VENUE: Land of Oak & Iron Heritage Centre, Spa Well Road, Winlaton Mill, Tyne & Wear, NE21 6RU.DATE & TIME: Sunday, 13th August 2023 - 10:00-16:00Land of Oak & Iron are excited to host our Summer Meet the Maker Market, bringing together some of our past Meet the Makers and new local astists and creatives too!We love hosting our seasonal Meet the Maker Markets, they’re great events for buying hand crafted items, getting inspired and meeting new local makers and ar...

WITHIN THE BOGGART WOOD EVENT AT THE LAND OF OAK AND IRON

DATE: Sunday, 27th August 2023 - 10:00-15:30On Sunday 27th August, the Boggart will be at the Land of Oak and Iron Heritage Centre to collect (should you choose to) your stories of all things weird and wonderful!  I’ll be coming armed with audio recording equipment and a notebook . . . if you’d like your story to appear on an upcoming podcast episode you’ll have the option of me just reading it out, or your voice appearing on the podcast!If there are enough stories collected, the aim ...

***BREAKING NEWS***

After the very positive feedback from our July Wag and Walk, we have decided to hold another in August.  Please feel free to bring along your dog and your children too!  We look forward to seeing you there.  This event is FREE for ALL attendees.  Venue: The Land of Oak and Iron, Spa Well Road, Winlaton Mill, Blaydon upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE21 6RU.Book you place now....

CHIGIRI-E WORKSHOP AT ORIENTAL MUSEUM

DATE & TIME: Saturday, 29th July, 14:00-16:00VENUE: Oriental Museum (Elvet Hill, Durham, DH1 3TH)Chigiri-e is the art of Japanese hand torn paper collage.  I will take you through the step-by-step process of designing and creating your own unique chigiri-e.This workshop coincides with the current exhibition "Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki" at the Oriental Museum in Durham.  We'll be making chigiri-e inspired by the themes of 'peace' and 'hope.'Book your place here....

James Miller from UMi talks about how to digitally drive your online presence!

Digital Advisor, James Miller from UMi talks to Melanie at DBN about the FREE Digital Health Check available for North East SME's and shares 5 top tips on how to strengthen your digital presence!https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-9476m-142379fIf you enjoyed this podcast and have any questions for James you can contact him via the details below... T: +44 (0)191 716 0960 M: +44 (0)7741 091 196E: james.miller@weareumi.co.uk Sat Nav: weareumi.co.uk/satnav...

LANDMARK POST-BREXIT TRADE DEALS TO COME INTO FORCE IN MAY 2023 DRIVING ECONOMIC GROWTH ACROSS THE UK

Press release: 4th May 2023From: Department for International Trade, Department for Business and Trade, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP, and The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP.The Prime Minister met with his Australian and New Zealand counterparts on 5th May 2023 for talks ahead of the King's Coronation.Benefits of ground-breaking free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand to be unleashed for British businesses and consumers later this mont...

EXPAND YOUR GLOBAL REACH WITH A KING'S AWARD FOR ENTERPRISE

Expand your global reach with a King's Award for Enterprise - Applications for  2024 are now openConsidered to be the most prestigious accolade presented to UK businesses, previous winners of the globally recognised award have reported benefiting from increased commercial value, greater press coverage and a boost to staff morale.This year saw 13 of the North of England’s top exporters receive the first ever King’s Award for the Enterprise International Trade category.&nbs...

BUSINESS ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECT (BEEP)

The Derwent Valley Partnership is offering local businesses the opportunity to become more energy efficient through a new ‘Business Energy Efficiency Project’ (BEEP), funded through the Partnership’s Towns and Villages Fund.By getting involved, businesses will be helped to better understand their consumption and carbon emissions, and how to reduce them through behavioural modifications, investment in more efficient equipment and appliances, and on-site renewable energy ...

DERWENT VALLEY AAP - BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVE WANTED!

Do you have knowledge of local business issues in the Consett and surrounding areas, and some time to spare to be involved in local decision making in the area?If the answer is yes, the Derwent Valley Partnership currently has a business representative vacancy on its Board and would to hear from you.As one of our partner representatives (representing the local business community alongside health, housing, fire and rescue, police, voluntary and community sector and the Council), you would be requ...

AMAZON PRIME DAY WEBINAR WITH CHANNEL ADVISOR

Channel Advisor - Prime Day 2023: What you need to know - Webinar DATE & TIME: Wednesday, 24th May 2023 - 16:00Our friends at Channel Advisor are holding a webinar on Wednesday 23 May at 4pm to help brands and companies prepare for the next Amazon Prime day.  The webinar will feature experts Mariko Davison, Chris Wollman and Maya Walker and will cover the below topics:Forecast and prepare inventoryCreate and optimise content that attracts shoppersMaximise profit through smart prici...

MAY NETWORKING MEETING AT LANCHESTER GARDEN CENTRE

We had such a lovely networking meeting at Lanchester Garden Centre this morning. It was nice to see everyone's smiling faces - the sun made a guest appearance too!It was great to introduce new member Carol Smith from County Durham Community Foundation and hearing about the great work that CDCF have been doing across our region. We'll be sharing more information about CDCF in our blog and newsletter in the next few weeks.Our next meeting is on Tuesday, 20th June (8:30-10:30) ...

This Months DBN Big Conversation

Everyone was wearing their best smile at our Zoom networking meeting this morning!Thank you to everyone who joined our 'Big Conversation' with David Kelly and Gary Scott. We got to hear about that everyone has been up to over the past month. In these smaller meetings you tend to hear more about the nitty gritty of what people actually do, which is always great.Our next Zoom meeting is on Tuesday 6th June - book your place HERE...

Mary Jallow, Utility Warehouse

Meet DBN member Mary Jallow who is a self employed consultant for Utility Warehouse. Since registering as a self employed consultant, Mary has saved her customers anything between £50 to £500 per month!  In this podcast Mary talks to us about why she loves her job and how networking has helped grow her customer base.https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8rb3h-14225df...

APRIL 2023 NETWORKING MEETING

This months networking meeting was held at Citizens House in Consett.Thank you to everyone who contributed to our group discussion including Joanne Puckering, PhD, Ann English - Create Intrigue, Paul Sparks, Sharron Harrison, Owen Weightman, Tony Liddell, Moira Barnes, Carrie Dennison and Estelle Spring.  It's lovely to hear about all the positive updates about what's going on in our business community.Superstar shout-out goes to Ann English - Create Intrigue who told us about the launch of...

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER

A message from the Prime Minister Hi there - is there anything you’ve ever wanted to ask me?  Well, now’s your chance.On Monday 24 April I’ll be answering questions from the business community live on LinkedIn.One of my top priorities as Prime Minister is to grow the economy.  And you - the British businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators and young people inventing the future - are at the heart of that.Click here to attend and ask me a question.Speak to you then,Rishi SunakThe Prim...

Interior Designer Lorraine McGill from Willow and Maine talks to us about growing her business

Meet one of our newest DBN members, Lorraine McGill from Willow and Maine Interior Designs. Lorraine started her business in 2018 and grew it while she was employed in a full time role for a North East IT business. Now, four years later she is working in her interior design business full time! In this podcast Lorraine talks to us about growing her business, some of the projects she's worked on and what her future plans are for Willow and Maine.Listen to the podcast HEREWebsite: https://www....

Maximising Your R&D Claim: The Secrets To Securing More Funding

So, you’ve filed a research and development tax claim - nice work. Better still, your claim was successful and you’ve received R&D tax relief. But what if we told you that you could have received more?Lumo Tax have written a blog giving you the secrets to optimising your R&D tax claims and helping you to maximise the amount of funding you’re entitled to. With some strategic tweaks to your internal processes and operations, you could begin reaping the rewards sooner than you think!...

EMPLOYMENT LAW BREAKFAST SEMINAR - SWINBURNE MADDISON LLP & BUSINESS DURHAM

DATE & TIME: Tuesday, 25th April 2023 - 8:30-10:30VENUE: Swinburne Maddison LLP, Venture House, Aykley Heads Business Centre, Aykley Heads, Durham, DH1 5TSEMAIL: srs@swinburnemaddison.co.uk...

BIG IDEAS EVENT IS BACK!

This is the 3rd fully funded programme we have been able to deliver thanks to the team at RTC North and Supply Chain North East.The DBN Big Ideas event is an action-packed, two-day event full of 'BIG IDEAS' to help you think, create, focus, be inspired and innovative with your business!Packed full of bite sized interactive workshops, our programme is designed to get you thinking about how to work smarter within your business and to encourage growth, increase your profit, customer satis...

NATIONWIDE TEST OF EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM ON SUNDAY, 23rd APRIL AT 3:00 p.m.

Nationwide test of Emergency Alert system on Sunday, 23rd April at 3:00 pm.The UK Government are launching a new life-saving Public Emergency Alerts system in the UK, which will give the Government and emergency services the capability to send an alert directly to mobile phones when there is a risk to life.Alert systems such as this are already successfully used across the world and save lives.The system went live on Sunday, 19th March and you may have heard that there will be a national test of...

OUR 'BIG CONVERSATION' ONLINE MEETING

Great to see everyone at our 'Big Conversation' online meeting this morning.... just look at all those smiling faces!Our Zoom meetings are another way to network with fellow DBN members when you are unable to attend our face to face meetings.Thank you to Gary and David for being wonderful hosts 😀Take a look at our meeting line up for the coming months HEREJo Long Ann English ★ Create Intrigue Jan Cook Trish Guy 3D Virtual Spaces Owen Weightman Mary Jallow David Andrew Kelly Coral Sirett Gar...

April Networking Meeting at Citizens House, Consett.

Our next face to face networking meeting is on Tuesday 18th April atthe newly refurbished Citizens House in Consett.Join us for some speed networking, bacon butties and tea/coffee from 8.30 am to 10.30 am. We also have new member announcements, guest speakers, funding updates and much more!Make sure you book your place here: https://bit.ly/42PiE29In the meantime if you'd like to find out more about Citizens House in Consett take a look at this video they've created to highlight their facili...