Power Hours

Participate and Bradford 2025 are proud to be hosting 'Power Hours' - free, one-hour online sessions with Bradford professionals covering a range of topics.

These sessions will be running in September 2025 - on the 16th, 17th or 18th.

These sessions are aimed at charities, social enterprises, arts and cultural organisations, schools and voluntary groups.

This Session...

How to Engage Corporate Partners

Sign up for this free, online session with Anne Reed from Yorkshire Water.

We will explore how to connect and build partnerships with local businesses - the types of support businesses can offer non-profits and how you can maintain solid relationships for the long term.

Anne Reed from Yorkshire Water who will shine a light on how Yorkshire Water is moving towards a social value based approach to engaging with communities, how this can open opportunities to engage with their contract partners, and why partnership working is so important.

Anne has worked in the utility sector for over 30 years, mainly as a corporate social responsibility professional working across a range of public relations functions including education, social value, sponsorship, corporate charity partnerships, volunteering, internal communications and event management. In her spare time, she has spent 20 years in school governance roles, at both primary and secondary level, and is currently supporting the development of a new Sixth Form College.

How to Engage Corporate Partners - Power Hour