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.

USE THE BENCHMARKING TOOL

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.

ADVERTISE AN CONNECTION

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

Fire Walk Challenge – Better Lives Charity

Sunday 16th March 2025. Late afternoon/early evening – TBC nearer the time. Ignite your courage and step into the extraordinary with our Firewalk Challenge for Better Lives Charity. Our experienced firewalk instructors will guide you through the entire process, ensuring your safety and building the excitement as you prepare to take the walk of a…

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Considering Neurodiversity in Business with Spectrum First

On Thursday 28th November at 4.00pm Spectrum First will be running a free 90 minute introductory session to give York and North Yorkshire businesses a taste of what we do in our Neurodiversity Acceptance training. It is believed 1 in 5 employees are neurodivergent. The session will provide more details of how we support companies…

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Business Productivity Service

WYCA’s Business Productivity Service provides a route to fully understanding and unlocking enhanced productivity improvements in your business through access to fully funded consultancy support from consultants Exemplas. Your support will be managed by an Exemplas Productivity Manager and from industry leading productivity experts from Leeds Beckett University. They will work with you through a…

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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.

Time running out for York businesses to get free green makeover to slash emissions and energy bills

Scheme has already identified 587 Tonnes of CO2 Savings for local businesses Free onsite support and training tailored to help…

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Appeal to York businesses to support local young people leaving care

City of York Council is thanking businesses and residents across the city who have already contributed Christmas gifts for children…

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Otley garden centre provides charity with plants to encourage wildlife

The team at Otley Garden Centre has donated wildflower seeds to Wildlife Friendly Otley to improve habitat corridors around the…

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