Following what has been a most extraordinary year we are now hopefully all thinking ahead to better times and moving towards the new normal.

Over the last 6 months, EMN have worked with its members on a range of support initiatives to help them manage their way through the various obstacles that COVID has presented. So that now begs the question as to how we can move forward and what is being done to support this by the various agencies available in the North East, or to put it another way how do we ‘Drive Recovery’ beyond where we find ourselves now.

Having determined that our annual EMCON Show may not be viable in October this year we moved the date to March 8^th 2021, allowing sufficient time for confidence in our sector to build and peoples personal confidence to return. However, when making our decision to delay we decided to hold the original EMCON date of Thursday, October 8^th and create a webinar designed specifically to help us in our current situation and discuss the process of recovery.

We are therefore very pleased to launch our first ‘Driving Recovery’ webinar for the region, created by industry experts, sme business owners and of course our strategic partners.

Please join us at 10am on October 8^th via ZOOM and hear from professionals who can support your business.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89268623171

The morning will consist of a discussion between the North East and Tees Valley Local Enterprise Partnerships as to their part in supporting the recovery process, how the local authorities are driving regeneration and recovery and our keynote which will be announced very shortly!

We also want to present the opportunity for you to ask pertinent questions and as such will be seeking these in advance from attendees and via the Zoom comments forum on the day.

We look forward to seeing you all and continuing to help you in your journey.