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.

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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

St Leonard’s Hospice Moonlight Walk

The much-loved Moonlight Walk is back, so it’s time to gather your friends, family and best glittery outfits for an unforgettable night under the stars. This 7-mile circular route will take you through the beautiful streets of York, all to support St Leonard’s Hospice, proudly celebrating 40 years of caring for our community. Year after…

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Sponsor the 2025 Muslim Sports Awards – Celebrate Excellence in Sport & Community

We’re pleased to present an exciting opportunity to partner with the 2025 Muslim Sports Awards. The event is a high-profile celebration of sporting talent, leadership, and community excellence across the UK’s Muslim communities, run by the Muslim Sports Foundation (a UK-registered charity). This year’s event will be held on 4th December 2025 at the home of…

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Come for a fun and fulfilling team volunteering day at The Children’s Book Project

The Children’s Book Project, based on Water Lane in Leeds, is on a mission to end book poverty.  Nearly 1 million children in the UK don’t own a book of their own.  The Children’s Book Project take donations of pre-loved books and gift them to children through primary schools, food banks, women’s refuges and to…

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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.

Accu leads fundraising mission for Huddersfield charity The Kirkwood

A group of employees from Accu, an engineering component distributor in Huddersfield, have gone the extra mile in support of…

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Phoenix Software teams to compete in “Race for a Reason” charity event in Benelux this summer

Three-day race across Benelux inspired by BBC TV show, “Race Across the World” in support of St Leonard’s Hospice Phoenix…

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Bradford 2025 hits the halfway mark with people, participation and pride at its heart – and a blockbuster Summer ahead

An estimated 1.1 million people have experienced Bradford 2025 projects celebrating the district Events have taken place in every ward…

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