Burnley Business Week returns for seventh year

A week of free seminars, training sessions and masterclasses will take place across 14th to 18th May as part of Burnley Business Week.

It is the seventh time that Burnley Council has organised the programme, in support of the town's businesses and entrepreneurs.

This year's week of events has been organised in partnership with business support agencies and is supported by cyber resilience experts Xcina Ltd, to offer the latest advice and guidance on a range of business areas, and there will be something to help all types and all sizes of business.

Sessions available include: Starting Your Own Business, R&D Tax Credits – Save your Business Money, Changing the Way You Do Meetings, Interactive Mock Employment Tribunal, Raise your Defences Against Cyber Crime, the Leadership Test, how to Win New B2B Business using Linkedin, Business Networking, Social Media in the Retail World, Improve Health & Wellbeing in Your Workplace, Secured By Design, How To Use Your Customer Data to Grow Your Business and more.

Kevin Porter, business development director at Xcina, said: “Business Week is important in providing business leaders with information and practical ways to enable them to discover solutions to their commercial challenges. Xcina is delighted to be sponsoring Burnley Business Week where we will be meeting a host of fantastic companies based in the Burnley area, one of the most dynamic and enterprising areas of Lancashire." Mick Cartledge, Burnley Council chief executive officer said: “We recognise the importance of our businesses and that their success impacts on the prosperity of the town. Burnley is becoming well known for having a pro-active council and Bondholder Scheme when it comes to supporting our businesses, and Business Week is part of that package of support.”