This is a business link event.

This workshop will show the importance of understanding how supply chains work, and how companies should appreciate their own position within supply chains as a pre-cursor to developing new sub-contract opportunities. Identifying and tracking large scale project opportunities in the public procurement marketplace and large corporate business is also key.

This is a Business Link event.

This is your opportunity to find out how you could be winning public sector business in the local area. Come and meet buyers from across Kirklees and Calderdale Council and other local public sector organisations including the NHS. Obtain business advice and network with other organisations.

There will be:

This is a Business Link event.

How to own, safeguard and exploit the idea or work you create.

This presentation by Appleyard Lees, the specialist Intellectual Property (IP) attorneys, will focus on the most common forms of Intellectual Property rights including patents, trade marks and designs, and how to obtain and use these rights for commercial gain.

Forward Ladies have announced a new programme of accredited courses by the Institute of Leadership and Management.

The programme covers everything from presentation and confidence skills to time management and confilct resolution. There are 12 one and two-day training courses running throughout the autumn and winter and you can attend as many as appropriate.

Complete any 5 courses and you will have sufficient units to gain the level 3 NVQ Certificate in Leadership and Management.

Programme of courses: (All being run in Leeds)

Leading Ladies is a new network for women in business. It offers practical expertise, one-to-one coaching with experienced business coaches, workshops and presentations from business experts, as well as the opportunity to attend and gain support from monthly Leading Ladies support & networking events.

Membership for Leading Ladies is £500 per year and there is also a limited number of fully funded free places.