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Leeds Lit Fest 2026: 6th to 14th June

Leeds Lit Fest is back! Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words and thought will take place across a variety of Leeds’ creative spaces and aims to bring belonging and community to the city’s literary scene with writers, poets and performers from both near and far.

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Events

Join Yorkshire Businesswoman for a sparkling March event

Join us for member free networking at Philip Stoner The Jeweller in Victoria Quarter Leeds on Thursday March 19th. As well as networking and welcome drink provided by Cut & Craft, members and guests will be treated to a dazzling display of diamonds and other glittering jewels. There will also

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Events

Join us for 'A Novel Lunch'

Join us for our 'Novel Lunch' on Wednesday 6th May, hosted by best selling author Milly Johnson at the beautiful Ambers Restaurant within Cedar Court Hotel Harrogate. The event will start at 12 noon with a two-course lunch before members and guests settle in with a welcome drink

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Business

Leading York architects transforming St Peter's School

Award-winning architects brown + company are playing a pivotal role in the transformation of St Peter’s School in York. St Peter’s, which was founded in AD627 and is one of the oldest schools in the UK, is switching from a three to a two-school model. This structural change requires

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Business

Professional studio base as podcast room launches in Leeds

Podcast Room Leeds, a purpose-built podcast and video recording studio, has opened in Leeds city centre, providing a fully managed production environment for businesses and creators across Yorkshire and the wider North of England. The launch responds to a significant and sustained rise in demand for professionally produced audio and

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Business

Leeds Business School launches Impact and Growth programme to empower women in business

The Business School at Leeds Beckett University has launched WECAN – Impact and Growth, a new leadership and development programme designed to empower women to create impact in their businesses, organisations and wider communities. Building on the success of a previous programme, this initiative helps develop leadership capability, confidence and emotional

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Business

York Garden Centre raises its fundraising target for Wetherby children’s hospice

With two months of the charity year still to go, a Bradford-based garden centre group with a site in York has smashed its fundraising target and extended its commitment to a local children’s hospice. In April 2025, the teams at Yorkshire Garden Centres’ sites in West and North Yorkshire

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Fashion and Lifestyle

Leeds Lit Fest 2026: 6th to 14th June

Leeds Lit Fest is back! Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words and thought will take place across a variety of Leeds’ creative spaces and aims to bring belonging and community to the city’s literary scene with writers, poets and performers from both near and far.

By The Editor • 2 min read

Fashion and Lifestyle

Chesney Hawkes - Still the One and Only

Yorkshire Businesswoman talks to 1990's pop sensation about his new album and his upcoming UK tour including Brudenell Social Club in Leeds on 12th March. Thirty-five years after the one and only became one of the most recognisable songs of a generation, Chesney Hawkes remains as energised as

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