Tickets to Black Country Business Festival events go live

More events are being added all the time and the complete programme – expected to contain more than 100 events, will be available in mid-March.

The festival is back for its second year from May 13 to 24 with events taking place all over the Black Country during the fortnight, all run by local businesses and organisations.

Anyone can apply to hold an event as part of the festival and it can take any shape from a conference, seminar, expo or workshop to a demonstration of innovation or new product or a premises tour.

The festival was established by the Black Country Chamber of Commerce with the aim of giving local businesses new opportunities to grow and develop.

In 2018 more than 4,200 people attended festival events of all sizes, subjects and descriptions and 91 per cent rated the events they attended as good to excellent.

Corin Crane, chamber chief executive, said: “Last year was our first business festival and it was superb. There were over 120 outstanding business events which saw leading legal services gurus being especially flown in from overseas, massive business and careers expos, thought-provoking political and ethical debates, to business, marketing, sales, communications and leadership workshops and the Black Country also finding its best amateur comedians concealed in our business community.

“Tickets to attend this year are now available and all events are bookable on a first come, first served basis.

“There’s also still a decent amount of time to submit applications to hold an event. I would encourage everyone to get involved as Business Festival is a great way of bringing in new leads, increasing exposure or raising your business profile. But the closing date to apply is not too far away, so don’t leave it until it’s too late.”

It is completely free to run an event in the festival, but applications must be made before March 4 via the website www.blackcountrybusinessfestival.com

A number of other key partners and sponsors are supporting the festival. Solicitors Talbots Law, DY5 – Dudley’s Business and Innovation Enterprise Zone – and Birmingham Airport have signed up as festival partners, whilst Casino 36 have confirmed their commitment for the next two years as a sponsor.

Official festival supporters include Wolverhampton Racecourse, Crowe, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre and Think Sandwell.

To find out more about sponsorship or for more information, visit www.blackcountrybusinessfestival.com, email hello@blackcountrybusinessfestival.com or call 01902 912304.

For tickets to events see the calendar of events on the BCBF website.