UK Startup Week

Want to start or grow your business in the Sunderland area (or wider North East)? Come along to our first PLATFORM event of 2025 on Friday 10th Jan (9am-12pm) ⬇️⭐️ #PlatformNE #UKStartupWeek #sunderland #northeastengland

Not sure what you want for Christmas or what to get the entrepreneurs, business owners or leaders in your life? Buy an 'Early Bird Ticket' for our 5-day UK Startup Week festival taking place in Sunderland on 2-6 June 2025 (see link in comments below) ⬇️⭐️

Last 10 Places remaining!! don’t miss out on this FREE event. Speakers are: 🟢 Sophie Milliken MBE - Moja 🟢 Jamie Ahmed - Blacktip Social 🟢 Lucy Batley - Traction Industries 🟢 Claire Pickersgill - House of Hype 🟢 Paul Lancaster - PLATFORM 🟢 Phil Gray - IS THIS YOU? Kick start 2025 with inspiration, tools & techniques to have your best year yet in business, career and life. We'll be covering... 🟢 Achieving Your Goals In 2025 🟢 Maximising Your Marketing & Lead Generation 🟢 Unlocking AI to Super-Charge Your Productivity 🟢 Developing & Maintaining A Healthy Work/ Life Balance 🟢 Building A Bullet-Proof Mindset 🟢 Inspiring & Motivating Your Team HUGE thanks to our sponsors North East BIC and House Of Hype & Co - you are fantastic 🙌 🙌 Join via the Eventbrite: https://lnkd.in/gpxqXyms

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A couple of phone photos from last Friday's fabulous event by Paul Lancaster of PLATFORM & Christopher Owens of Pattern. (Lovely to finally meet you, Chris!!). This was another great opportunity to hear from North East Mayor, Kim McGuinness. Excellent! And a wonderful chance to network, too. So many amazing people there from our awesome region and it was terrific to be back at the stunning Wizu Workspace, Portland House, Newcastle. Also - special thanks to Claire Lou Robinson for standing beside me and (unknowingly 🤣) making an awesome foreground appearance in the pano shot 😎👍

I ended my recent flurry of networking events on Friday with Pattern's last Slow Networking event of 2024! Christopher Owens and Paul Lancaster were great hosts (and not just because of the enormous mince pie supply) and it was brilliant hearing from North East mayor Kim McGuinness about her first months in the role. Loved saying hi to some new people including Steven Wilson, Luke Hilliard and Marianne Butler, as well as catching up with my regular networking folk like Arlen Pettitt, Jane Imrie, Sarah Hunt and Debbie Stokoe ❤️ Excited to help out with more of Pattern's Slow Networking events in 2025 (plans already in the making!) #Networking #CoWorking #SlowNetworking #NetworkingEvent #NorthEast #Freelancer #Freelance Wizu Workspace

Lovely morning at Wizu Workspace in Newcastle at Pattern x PLATFORM networking event! 🔗 🎄 Exciting to hear about exciting opportunities and plans for businesses in the North East from Mayor Kim McGuinness - thanks to Christopher Owens and Paul Lancaster for organising! 🙏 I have to admit I wasn’t in top form (knackered after walking around Paris for three days) but was grateful to see Marianne Butler - don’t you love it when you find an accountability partner you know won’t just fade away after a few weeks?! It was nice to see Sharon MacArthur Laura Pearman Ruby Guyler too! I also signed up to work from the Wizu space and become part of the community! Excited to make new connections and hopefully organise some events there in 2025! It’s such a great space! 🙌

Thanks to everyone who dropped by Wizu Workspace this morning for our Christmas slow networking with PLATFORM! It was fantastic to see so many people join us for the last event of the year and make some final connections ahead of 2025. Christopher Owens and Paul Lancaster even chatted to surprise guest Kim McGuinness about her first months as North East mayor, the progress she's made so far and the pride we all have for the region. It was a brilliant way to end things... made even better by the abundance of Greggs mince pies. See you all in the new year! 🎄 #APatternOf #Community #Collaboration #WorkRelationships #Coworking #Networking #NewcastleEvents #EventsNewcastle #ChristmasEvent #ChristmasNewcastle #NorthEast #NewcastleUponTyne

Great way to end a year of slow networking! Huge thanks to everyone who spend the morning with us, Kim McGuinness for giving her time and insights and to Paul Lancaster for collaborating on this special Christmassy end of year event. Definitely didn't think this would be how the year ended when I had an idea for a low pressure and fun networking event.

Yet again Christopher Owens smashed it out of the park with his slow networking event at Wizu Workspace; this morning in collaboration with Paul Lancaster. They did a good job of keeping it quiet that they had Kim McGuinness as their guest speaker. She was as inspiring, authentic honest as ever. Catching up with Phil Gray is never a bad thing and the lovely surprise of seeing John Forth after far too many years. Pattern PLATFORM