With less than 2 full working weeks left of the year for many of us, we wanted to say a MASSIVE thank you to our 2025 Corporate Sponsors & Partners:
- Blu Sky Chartered Accountants – tech-savvy accountants for SMEs
- Circle Cloud – IT support & security services for SMEs
- HR2day Limited UK – outsourced & fractional HR services for SMEs
- Mira Marketing – digital marketing agency with B2C & B2B expertise
- NEL Fund Managers Limited – investing up to £2m into ambitious growing businesses
- Precursor Security – 24/7 Cyber Security, penetration testing & compliance
- Sweeney Miller Law – law firm with offices in Sunderland & Newcastle
- Ward Hadaway – law firm with offices in Newcastle, Leeds & Manchester
- Wubbleyou – IT / tech, automation & AI specialists to help you SMEs scale
- Xero – global leader in cloud accounting around the world (which we use)
Their support has enabled us to educate, inspire & connect 800+ different people at 28 x PLATFORM events in Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesbrough & Edinburgh this year, with 2 more to go this week & next. (Over 1500 different people have been to our events since January last year)!
Their support has also helped us build an online audience of 37,000+ who are reading & following our emails & social media channels ⭐️🙏
Each of our sponsors was chosen because they are dedicated to & passionate about helping SME business owners & leaders be more successful by managing their operations better, saving time & money & avoiding common pitfalls!
If you haven’t already done so, please do take a closer look at each of their websites (above) & consider what they can do for you in the weeks & months ahead (they will all be happy to have a free, informal chat with you any time).
Want to sponsor / support our PLATFORM events in 2026?
Most of our 2025 sponsors have already renewed for another year but we are open to bringing on some new ones (as long as they don’t compete with existing ones).
You can either sponsor all our events for the full 12 months or just 1 event at a time, depending on your budget & we are also open to creating bespoke events too.
If you’d like to discuss how you can promote your business, product or service through our events & online channels, book a video call with Paul at https://meetings.hubspot.com/plancaster
Our new PLATFORM website & future focus
We now have this dedicated website for all our PLATFORM events & related activities, including our ‘PLATFORM Premium‘ Mastermind Groups starting in January & a new conference we are planning to run in the first half 2026.
(Previously we just promoted all our PLATFORM events on our Eventbrite page, social media channels & a page on our pre-existing ukstartupweek.com website).
We’ll be doing much more with PLATFORM in the new year (in-person & online) so take a closer look around this website (platformevents.ai) to get a flavour of what we have in store for 2026…
Thanks for reading & I look forward to seeing you at an event soon!
Paul Lancaster
Founder, Event Producer & Growth Consultant
PLATFORM | UK Startup & Scaleup Week
Stellar Business Events Limited
https://platformevents.ai
https://ukstartupweek.com