Business Conservation: From Endangered to Empowered

We’re thrilled to invite you to a truly unique experience:

🦍 Business Conservation: from endangered to empowered

📅 16 October🕥 10:30 – 15:00 (with optional zoo tour after)

📍Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Join us on a journey from survival to sustainability as we explore how businesses can protect, nurture, and future-proof their people strategies—drawing inspiration from the wild!

🌿 What to Expect:

• Expert Workshops on mental health, risk management, aging workforces & sustainable strategy

• Keynote Talks from industry leaders like Unum, Howarths, CFO Centre & Partners&

• Lively Roundtable Discussions on the real-world challenges facing your people

• Networking & Lunch in a truly unforgettable setting

• 🐒 Optional: Tour of the park following the event

Whether you're grappling with limited budgets, mental health challenges, or workforce succession planning—this is your chance to explore solutions and future-proof your business.

The best part – your presence can make a difference. We'll be running a charity raffle on the day, with all proceeds going directly to support the work of our regional charity partner, The Howarth Foundation, who are dedicated to supporting the homeless into employment and housing.

👉 Spaces are limited – reserve your place today and be part of this conservation movement for the workplace.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Meet our Partners

Unum

Unum is a specialist employee benefits provider, leading the UK towards healthier, more productive workplaces. With over 175 years' experience in helping people, Unum Group has a history of thinking ahead. We offer financial protection through the workplace including Group Income Protection, Life Insurance, Critical Illness and Corporate Dental cover. We’re committed to health and wellbeing in society, so we help businesses build wellbeing strategies that make a difference to employees and their families. We constantly challenge ourselves to run our business in the right way – the way that’s right for our customers, our communities and the planet we all share.

The CFO Centre

As the world's number one provider of fractional Chief Financial Officers, The CFO Centre has over 700 CFOs based in over 18 countries with expertise spanning over 30 industries.

For over 20 years, we’ve helped thousands of businesses to scale faster, increase valuation and hit their ambitious targets by providing high calibre part-time CFOs.

We pride ourselves on building strong relationships and delivering high quality strategic leadership covering everything from inception to exit.

We’ll start by getting clear on your most ambitious business and personal goals and then work with you to build and deliver the financial plan to make it happen.

Howarths

Howarths is the leading people consultancy in the North across legal, safety and growth.

We cover all areas of employment law, strategic HR growth, Health & Safety, business immigration and training.

We’re a 2nd generation family-run business, founded in 2003. Since then, our services have been cultivated and fine-tuned, developing our talent, offering and SLAs to match our clients’ needs. Our multi-year ‘fixed fee’ compliance services give SME businesses surety over their costs, without any compromise in service levels – expert, fast, commercial.

Our values are paramount to our business, service and talent – Graft. Together. Heart. Grit. It’s what sets us apart.

Because it's not all about what we do, it's how we do it. With personality, with knowledge of the client's business, understanding their nuances, an integrated approach across all three service delivery teams, not passing someone around from pillar to post, delivering a service in a calm, professional, assured way - a fully embedded, outsourced HR, employment law and H&S extension to a business, at a fraction of the cost of hiring in-house expertise.