Pioneering Partnerships

This CAKE will explore creative collaboration.

About this event

You are welcome to join us for an open and honest conversation about creative collaboration between business and academia. We’ll hear from various types of business from freelancers, to larger organisations across different sectors. Find out what collaboration might bring to your organisation and how to explore opportunities with potential academic partners.

Speakers - Guest speakers will share their experiences of university collaboration.

Andrew Brabbs (RAF)

Andrew Brabbs joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 2005 as a Physical Training Instructor where he served at RAF Cosford, RAF Boulmer and toured the Falkland Islands before posting to the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court in late 2011 to complete a Joint Service Exercise Rehabilitation Instructors Course.

Dr Yvonne Gale FCA MBA DBA

Yvonne is an experience board director focusing on entrepreneurial finance and impact investing for socio-economic development. She is the CEO of NEL Fund Managers, a North East economic development impact investor committed to changing local economies through investing in growing small businesses.

Harriet Ballance

Harriet is People and Communities Lead for Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, leading on their work with six communities across England and Wales which is focused on long term system change. Harriet has previously worked in small charities, working in a Gypsy and Traveller community organisation, and as Acting Director of AVID (the Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees), working with a network of visitors groups to immigration detention centres.

Registering

Whatever your professional background, this event is designed to support potential by inspiring new conversations and allowing introductions to take place that will enable collaboration. The event will take place on Zoom, the video conferencing platform. You don’t need to have an account but we recommend that you sign up for a free account and use the desktop app.

About CAKE

CAKE (Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange) is Creative Fuse North East’s monthly networking event, bringing together businesses, freelancers, academics, charities and creative practitioners from across the Creative, Digital and IT sectors and wider economy. Each themed CAKE event has expert speakers delivering short presentations that explore opportunities and innovation challenges. The events generate debate, explorative discussion and stimulate new innovative ideas by looking at each event’s theme from a variety of different perspectives – in keeping with the event name, attendees enjoy a slice of delicious cake while they network.*