New hub to empower entrepreneurs and improve communities The University of York has launched a new business hub to help support the region’s entrepreneurial community with dedicated facilities and expertise. Enterprise Works offers a range of business services, including office space; conference facilities; shared workspaces; incubation programmes, training and networking events. Members of the Enterprise Works team will be based at the newly-renovated Guildhall, which has just been acquired by the University on a 15-year lease following a multi-million pound renovation. The facility is available for entrepreneurs from the Yorkshire region, as well as building on existing services offered to University staff and students.
Power of enterprise Professor Kiran Trehan, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Partnerships and Engagement, said “Enterprise Works will support the region’s entrepreneurs and businesses, but more than that, enhance the power of enterprise and entrepreneurship to support communities, economies, and lives.
“We want to ensure that everyone who wants to be enterprising is supported to do so, whatever their background, and to make enterprise everybody’s business.” Enterprise Works will also offer small business training and funding opportunities to entrepreneurs across York and the wider region. It will deliver a wide-range of events to bring together thought leaders, business owners, policy makers and researchers to work on crucial social and business issues, as well as create a new community allowing entrepreneurs to access expertise and peer support.
