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We would like to invite you to join us at one of our Finance Yorkshire Launch Events to be held in March 2010.

Finance Yorkshire will be unveiled by The Rt Hon Rosie Winterton MP, Minister for Regional Economic Development and Co-ordination, at the Leeds event on Friday 12th March. Further events will follow throughout the region, see details below.

Finance Yorkshire is the new £90million fund set up to provide businesses across the Yorkshire and Humber region with funding to start and grow.

In Tuesday's edition of The Guardian Tim Kent, Director and Owner of virtual Unit business Innovations in Technology describes how The Unit helped his start-up business go from strength to strength.

'I was a successful IT dealer for years but got made redundant in August 2007.  I'd already registered my company name, but started trading once the redundancy came through.  The business supplied patient management systems to medical practices in Bradford - a touch screen used by patients to self-check in instead of going to reception.

WYLLN will be holding the 3rd Annual Celebration Event on Wednesday 7th July 2010 at Leeds Civic Hall.

The BBC have recently gone into production on series 8 of Dragons’s Den – a programme that continues to offer entrepreneurs from across the country the chance to make their business dreams come true.

They are now searching for business ideas, inventions or products with serious business potential that are investment ready and looking for funding and would like to spread the world that we’re in production.