Yorkshire Powerhouse – providing quality
advice and free downloads for new-start
and SME businesses … the Yorkshire way!

Welcome to the Yorkshire Powerhouse website

Helping new start-up businesses launch

Yorkshire Powerhouse is proud to help start-ups looking to launch a strong business.

The key to launching a strong business is to ensure you’ve created a thorough business plan. This helps you manage your early days and provides you with clarity.

Take a look at the content we provide you in the planning section. This covers business, financial and marketing planning. Please also download the FREE planning template documents to help you on your path.

Helping SME businesses grow & develop

Once running, a business should start to develop and grow because your customers love you! They will refer and share your business with their friends.

This is great, but it also comes with new challenges. You should plan for growth, building up your business to recruit staff, take on larger contracts and start thinking about a future exit plan.

Remember that we’re here to help with lots of finance, growth and marketing articles. There are also more FREE templated plans from our download library.

Working and referring quality partners

The Yorkshire Powerhouse project is not government funded. We depend on working with partner businesses who would love to also offer you their support.

Our partners include accountants, solicitors, mentors, designers, marketers, consultants and funders. We all work together to bring the Powerhouse to you.

If you need any help then please just ask. We have thousands of quality, capable contacts who we would be happy to introduce you to. Please also use our online supplier directory too.

Connecting Businesses with quality Suppliers

One outcome of the Yorkshire Powerhouse project has been the opportunity to connect small businesses with local quality suppliers that genuinely WANT to work with SME’s – we are lucky to have a group of sponsors who support the project but we also now provide an online suppliers directory (The GREAT Yorkshire Directory) and we run regular business networking meetings (Powerhouse Networking) … we also email our 10,000+ subscribers each week with new advice articles and news and regularly communicate on LinkedIn to over 9,000 connections! If you want to see ‘noisy’ then see the Yorkshire Powerhouse!

Yorkshire Powerhouse? Tell me more!

So, the whole concept behind the site is to help small businesses and new-start entrepreneurs be strong! We provide high-quality articles and useful downloads (business plans, cash flow forecasts, marketing plans, etc). ALL FOR FREE!

We are funded by our sponsors and advertisers. We can provide finance and lending where appropriate. But, at our core, is the intention to genuinely help SME’s and entrepreneurs.

We’re not claiming that we cover everything possible (although we’re working on it!). If you think of something and can’t find it, let us know and we’ll look at getting it sorted. Our approach is fast, lean and dynamic – somewhat unlike normal support organisations!

Above all, we hope you enjoy your own business and are truly successful. Yorkshire really can be the Powerhouse of the North!

FEATURED GUIDES

All guides

Guide:The Core Principles for a Strong Business

Planning

Building a strong business is genuinely hard which is why most businesses don’t do it properly - but it's worth the effort to avoid failure! Read >

Guide:Starting a business – A guide to a successful launch