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Sept 2022
Last Updated: 22/09/2022
Business Breakfast: Free course to boost start-up businesses in Harrogate district
In today's business briefing, a free seven-week course is being launched to help entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground, and a director is appointed to a local law firm.
Business Breakfast is sponsored by Harrogate law firm Truth Legal.
A free seven-week course will help entrepreneurs in Harrogate get their start-up businesses off the ground.
Up to 30 places are available on the Strive course, run by York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub, City of York Council, Harrogate Borough Council, & Enterprise CUBE.
Beginning on Tuesday, October 4, it will offer a series of workshops and individual advice sessions and challenges, before giving out £2,500 of prizes at the end of the programme.
Topics will include creating a brand, taking payments, building an online presence, and dealing with the legal and tax requirements of setting up a business.
Laura Mumford, an award-winning entrepreneur from Enterprise CUBE, said:
“We’re finding more and more people are looking at other ways to make their own income through starting their own business.
"We’re seeing lots of people join our courses who want to start building a business now, to have some extra security, and extra income coming in.”
A free taster session takes place in the Minster Room at Harrogate Civic Centre on Tuesday, September 27 from 7-9pm. The course will run via Zoom.
To find out more or book a place, visit the course page on the York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub website.
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Director appointed to Harrogate district law firm
An experienced solicitor has joined a practice in the Harrogate district as a director.
Mark Jones, who was previously partner at Harrowells in York as well as at LCF Law and Raworths in the past, joins Newtons to work on wills, probate, trusts and estates, including inheritance tax planning, from its Ripon and Harrogate offices.
As well as being a long-serving member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, he is a committee member of Harrogate and District Law Society.
Mr Jones said:
"Having known [Newtons managing director] Chris Newton for well over 20 years, I’ve watched with great admiration what he has achieved in building Newtons into the firm it is today from scratch. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to be part of that journey.”
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