Applications are now open to host an event at Black Country Business Festival. The Festival is your prime opportunity to reboot and reconnect your business, with a variety of options for hosting events and partnering directly with the Festival.
Sponsoring Agency: Black Country Chamber of Commerce
Type of Fund: Events, Workshops and Conferences
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 08/13/2021
Size of the Fund: Not Available
Applications are now open to host an event at Black Country Business Festival. The Festival is your prime opportunity to reboot and reconnect your business, with a variety of options for hosting events and partnering directly with the Festival.
The Black Country Business Festival is an annual, two week festival of business events running across the whole of the Black Country region. The dates for 2021 are Monday 4th – Friday 15th October.
The Business Festival programme will be made up of over a hundred events, all put on by local businesses.
Themes
• Inclusive Growth: To include events such as leadership, selection and recruitment, diversity, HR, sustainability in the workplace, training, mental health, education etc.
• Innovation: Covering manufacturing, vehicles, strategies, dealing with the impact of COVID 19, collaborations etc.
• Business Growth: Exploring such elements as support, training, education, legal, finance, bounding back after Brexit, marketing and advertising.
• This is the Black Country: Events which place the region at the forefront including for example, created and made by local businesses, tourism, arts, culture, leisure etc.
• Regeneration: Where development and growth is key, covering retail, office space, transport, construction, zero carbon economy events etc.
Benefits
• Business Festival events will enable the local business community to engage, share best practice and collaborate with each other on a completely new level.
• The opportunities to meet, partner and learn will be endless.
• The Business Festival will enable us to show the rest of the world this region’s strengths, innovation, commerce and culture.
• Together, through the Business Festival, the Black Country business community will be united in shouting about our region, the ‘can do’ attitude of our workforce and the area’s huge investment potential.
• Through a focus on specific sectors, we will attract visitors to our area from across the UK and beyond.
• The Black Country Business Festival will help our businesses prosper, our people develop and local economy grows.
They stand united in showing the world that This is the Black Country.
The Festival is proudly run in association with the Black Country Chamber of Commerce and managed by Associate Events Ltd. It is backed by like-minded commercial partners who share the same desire to see the region reach its full thriving commercial potential.
Criteria
To meet the objectives of the Festival, every event should aim to meet at least two of the following criteria:
• Benefit the local business community (such as opportunities to interact, engage, promote, share best practice, learn new skills and network).
• Aim to increase economic growth and drive inward investment for the region.
• Showcase what the Black Country has to offer, demonstrating to the wider world the prominence within the region.
• Strengthen ongoing partnerships or develop new collaborations between research and academic institutions, local authorities and businesses.
• Help to increase employability and grow talent within the region, raise aspirations, cultivate future stars and show opportunities for progression.
• Drive business engagement and cross-sector collaboration.
• Have potential to attract interest from businesses/individuals from outside of the region, to cultivate a range of local, national and international links.
• Focus on wider issues or controversial topics (for example new technologies, innovation, economic issues or address challenges facing the local economy, such as the pandemic).
• Offer support and educate businesses coming out from the pandemic.
Eligibility criteria
• Any business can apply to run an event – which can take any shape from a seminar or workshop through to a trade show or major conference.
• Events can take place anywhere in the Black Country.
• Every event should benefit the people and businesses in the Black Country, and therefore help business growth, ultimately having a positive impact on the Black Country economy.
• Events will largely be free to attend.
• The Business Festival will showcase the colourful range of businesses that proudly make up the Black Country, combining existing, traditional industries with new and emerging key areas for growth within a packed Festival programme.
More information at: https://www.blackcountrybusinessfestival.com/whatisthebcbf
