23 June 2022

The Huddersfield Giants Women In Business lunch event is a great opportunity to catch up with other professional women, entrepreneurs, and small business owners in and around the Huddersfield area. ...

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6 January 2022

Network Meeting for leaders of community groups in the Denby Dale & Kirburton Ward. We will be talking about what support your community group would prefer, latest funding opportunities, best ...

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4 October 2021

This week is Huddersfield Business Week, with a variety of different business events happening across the Huddersfield area. Huddersfield’s first business week was in 2019 and it was a massive ...

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18 December 2020

It’s Mad Friday 2020 and the pubs are not allowed to open. We have been out over the last week, hand delivering our Christmas Postcards – because nothing says Christmas ...

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24 November 2020

We literally went live in under a week, following an after meeting conversation and so we are proud of our outcomes so far. But now we need you to make ...

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22 November 2020

Let’s play a Christmas Shopping Game! Okay so we can’t go out.  We are stuck in. Many have danced through lockdown to djs, I am sure we have all done a ...

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21 September 2020

It’s more important than ever to get all the support you can and the FSB is here for you! The Federation of Small Businesses are delighted to be offering small ...

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30 July 2020

Your local co-working and meeting space in Denby Dale is now open. The Flex Collective was set up by Jayne Adamson who had been working at home since starting her ...

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30 July 2020

Please help us welcome Clean Towels, who are based in Skelmanthorpe, as a new member of the HD8 Network Contact details and more information can be found on their directory ...

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30 July 2020

Kirklees Council has made a second and final round of the Local Authority Discretionary Grant fund available to help small businesses that have been impacted by COVID-19. Grants of up ...

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23 July 2020

SlingLibrary have started to run walks with parents in the local area, providing companionship and information exchange while enjoying the great outdoors Slinglibrary.com are all about helping you make life ...

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1 July 2020

Do you know how often we are told this when we finally get a chance to speak to people and explain what we offer? So many people have a preconception ...

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28 April 2020

We are well known for holding events for businesses Meetups, however our Social Meetup will purely be a social event and have a strict no selling policy. This event is ...

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20 April 2020

Kirklees Council knows this is an incredibly difficult time for local businesses and we’re keen to showcase those that have adapted, fundamentally changed or refocussed their business models during the ...

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18 April 2020

It is an unprecedented world at the moment and because of this, we are having to be ever evolving.  We are trying to adapt so that we can continue to ...

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11 November 2019

We are pleased to announce that we have a last minute speaker added to our Meetup agenda on November. Simon Monaghan will be talking to us about common grants available ...

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17 July 2019

Earlier this month the HD8 Network organised a photoshoot with the amazing John Steel Photography, inviting members and other organisations that are involved with the HD8 Network or who ‘Work’ ...

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1 July 2019

The HD8 Network were very honoured last month to host the #SheMeansBusiness Instagram training workshop, delivered by the amazing Esther Orridge from Social Progress. Local businesses, specifically startups and those ...

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14 June 2019

This year we are celebrating 6 years of the HD8 Network. Conceived and brought to life in the spring-summer 2013. One of the first things we did was create a ...

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14 June 2019

The HD8 Network is more than just our networking events.  (But these are really wonderful and you really should come)   At our Meetups we have a laugh, but also have ...

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