Measure

The Benchmarking tool allows for organisations to measure their social impact in 4 key areas: Education, Economy, Environment, and Community. Your responses will be presented in an easy-to-understand visual manner. It’s important to be honest, once your visual has been generated, you’ll then be able to compare your results against other companies.

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Creating Connections

Creating connections is a great way for you to being working on your social impact. This function will allow you to promote your activities to the Chambers network of contacts. Not-for-profits, charities or individuals aiming to promote a good cause can request help from these businesses by emailing connection opportunities or requests to marketing@wnychamber.co.uk.

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Awards and Reward

Annually, the Raising the Bar Awards is the highlight of the business calendar. This is our way of rewarding you for your hard work; making social impact happen. We want to see you making real change in your local area by: taking part in charity work, supporting and investing in the community, or partnering with other members working on similar projects.

ENTER OR ATTEND THE AWARDS

Promotion

Share your stories with Chamber members and the wider business community with articles published on the members website, with potential inclusion in the Chamber quarterly magazine. Anything from successfully completed programs or updates on a project your working on, we want to promote and share your work.

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Social Impact Stories

City of York Council – Armed Forces Covenant Business Conference – 7 October

Dear Business colleague, On behalf of City of York Council, we invite you to join us at the upcoming Armed Forces Covenant (AFC) Seminar, to be held on Monday 7 October 2024 in the Priory Street Centre (Main Hall) from 1:30pm to 5:00pm. The main aim of the seminar is to provide an environment where…

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North Yorkshire Police Special Constable Recruitment

Special Constables come from all walks of life and join for a variety of reasons. They are a vital part of all Police Forces across the country, supporting and enhancing the work of regular Police Officers. North Yorkshire Police have a well-established Special Constabulary of dedicated volunteers, and we are committed to recruiting hard-working individuals…

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Help York College raise funds for St Leonards Hospice and The Island charities

York College was a late entry (from the reserve list with one and half weeks’ notice) into the York Dragon Boat Race on Sunday 14th July 2025. Despite never entering the event before or even being in a boat together (we had a dry practice on chairs in a class room ) we won our…

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Social Impact for Business

Raising the Bar is a Chamber-run business initiative. Our focus is to help develop, implement, and sustain social impact programs in our regional area. The West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce aims to bring our members together, to partner up and go above and beyond to serve the community you operate in. Whether this is done through fund raising, donations or employee volunteering opportunities, we want to see the change you’re making.

York families to get £300,000 funding support boost

Children and young people in York will benefit from work to explore how to best help families facing challenges, thanks…

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Trinity Leeds to host ‘Tree of Pride’

In celebration of Leeds Pride (21st July), Trinity Leeds is hosting a ‘Tree of Pride’, inviting guests to decorate the tree…

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Spawforths transitions to employee ownership, empowering employees and setting the foundations for growth

Spawforths, one of the largest independent planning, masterplanning and architectural consultancies in Yorkshire, is proud to announce its transition to…

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One of the lowest funded councils needs residents’ help to protect essential services

City of York Council is launching its biggest budget consultation ever and is asking the community to identify the services…

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York Cares Golden Moments Awards 2024: Celebrating the city’s unsung heroes

The fifteenth annual York Cares Golden Moments Awards honoured the remarkable contributions of employee-volunteers to the city of York. More…

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Join in: seven ‘Days of Action’ to help clean up Bradford, Keighley and Huddersfield

Housing provider Incommunities has announced a series of ‘Days of Action’ to help clean up local areas. The seven Days…

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