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Just some of the Teesside Expo Featured Exhibitors – Spring 2025

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Mortal Fools

are an award-winning theatre, drama and creative learning company supporting children and young people (7years-25years) across high impact creative interventions and regular youth theatre groups to engage, enable and empower, enhance wellbeing and cultivate employability and emotional development.

Mortal Fools also deliver communication and leadership training via their CONNECT training programme to businesses, third sector organisations, teams, and individuals. All income goes back into their work with children and young people.

Keep in touch with Mortal Fools by signing up to their mailing list.

Party Time Events UK

We have been providing companies, schools, colleges and charities around the North East and surrounding areas with corporate entertainment for over 15 years. Whether it’s a wellness day, staff appreciation day, company open day, family fun day or freshers event, we cater for all occasions.

With safety being our number one priority, all of our equipment is safety tested regularly and maintained to the highest standard at all times.

Take a look through our website for ideas and give our friendly office team a call with any queries or to make a booking.

Federation of Small Businesses

TBC

Motif8 Embroidery & Print

Motif8 Embroidery & Print Ltd has been trading for over 20 years in the Teesside area. The company employs over 35 staff and is the one of largest embroidery and printing companies in the Northeast. Our customers include both private and public sectors, suppling the corporate market, industry, schools, and sports clubs, both professional and semi-professional.

Motif8 manufacture, embroider and print uniforms, sportswear and leisurewear to customer’s own unique design, from the one-man painter and decorator to blue chip companies.

Motif8 prides itself on quality, service and price and is 100% customer focused.’

WE HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY AT THE TEESSIDE EXPO

Financial Wellbeing for Employees

Sam Tate & Marie Ranson

A joint presentation by award winning firms New World Financial Group and Key Wellbeing explaining how employers can make steps towards improving the financial wellbeing of their employees.

Presented by Sam Tate, Co-founder and Director of New World, and Marie Ranson, Commercial Director at Key Wellbeing.

 

 

Marketing, It's all about You!

Leeanne Coatman

In this session Leeanne will talk you through the smart way of planning a media strategy and how to implement it for the best results

Leeanne is an experience account manager for the Global Media group

Disaster Recovery in a Digital World

James Hay

Thinking about the ‘what if’s’ in business is not often a priority, but do you have the plans in place to keep your business working if the worst happened? James Hay, Technical Product Manager at Odyssey will give useful insight on how to protect your business.

James is Technical Product Manager at Odyssey Systems. He joined Odyssey in 2011 and has progressed within the team from Technical support, to Network Infrastructure Engineer to now managing the team. James leads a team of engineers who are certified to the latest industry standards and was pivotal in the partnership between Odyssey and Microsoft.
James has a passion for innovation and in his day-to-day role he is always looking for new products and services to deliver the very best customer experience.

BeReal with your Social Media & Personal Brand

Sophia Gowland

In a world where there’s a lot of pressure online to only show your carefully curated highlights, there’s also a thirst from your audience for authenticity across both your business brand & your personal brand. Let’s talk about how to actually BeReal on social platforms…

I'm Sophia, the founder of award-winning Marketing Agency, Petite Agency. We specialise in Social Media Management for ambitious brands looking to grow their business & Personal Brand Management for ambitious entrepreneurs looking to grow their influence.

I’ve spent over a decade working in marketing for various industries, businesses, and entrepreneurs, helping them to tell their stories & talk to their audiences in the most authentic & engaging ways, and that’s now what Petite Agency is all about, empowering every client we work with to do just that.

I set up my business in 2020 & owe so much of the success I've had in that time to building an authentic personal brand online...

 

How to make government funding work harder for your business

Hana Taylor

A masterclass on the ways businesses can utilise government funding to support their L&D and Recruitment strategies

Hana Taylor, Head of Recruitment

For the last 7 years, Hana has worked in the recruitment industry supporting both candidates and employers find their perfect professional pairing. She has worked at Learning Curve Group for almost three years, first as a member of our in-house Talent Team, and now stepping back into the world of external recruitment as our Head of Recruitment, pairing learners who have graduated from LCG courses with employers who are looking for the very skills they have. She spends her days supporting businesses and individuals find those perfect professional pairings. In a job market that's tough and is showing now sign of getting easier, Hana is an asset to all the businesses she supports.

 

The Full 360

James Lees

Have you ever been frustrated by the lack of results from a certain marketing channel or campaign? The problem is quite often not that channel, but how it connects to everything else. During this seminar, we will discuss how each marketing channel needs to connect with one another to boost the results you get.

James Lees is the commercial director at Yellowbox and award-winning marketer. James has worked in digital marketing since 2004 and has helped countless businesses grow through digital

Podcasting - the next tool in your marketing tool kit.

Adam Walker

In this seminar Adam will take you though how podcasting can work for you in the busy world of business promotion. In the session you will learn about:

- How you can get into podcasting

- How to structure you podcast

- How to use podcasting as a business promotion tool.

And building on the experience of delivering Darlington Stream Space Adam will share his insight and lessons he has learnt in the world of podcasting.

 

Adam Walker, Director of Hubspoke Media

Adam is a Chartered Marketer with the Chartered Institute of Marketing and is actively engaged in the CIM Continuing Professional Development Programme. He is local to the Darlington area but works Nationally, delivering media and marketing services for a range of sectors, including Sport, Leisure, Public Health, SME marketing and Sustainable Travel, including work for National Sustainable Travel Organisation, Modeshift.

Adam has a real talent for seamless video productions and on point photography whatever the setting. A pro behind the camera, he is also not averse to time on screen himself and enjoys producing Hubspoke Video Content for our Media Channels.

When Adam isn’t behind the lens or a screen you will find him donning his flat cap and walking boots and enjoying all things outdoors. Of course, he never misses an opportunity to take some great pictures while he is at it. And, you probably won’t be surprised to know that the Hubspoke name is a nod to Adams’ other passion – cycling!

 

 

Helping you understand Cyber Security

Michael Povey

Lots of business leaders don’t fully understand cyber security, meaning it often doesn’t get the attention (and the budget) it needs. But it’s not their fault. There aren’t many organisations making cyber security straightforward to understand. It’s a world with so many acronyms and jargon that we get switched off. We’re always being told that we should be doing more about cyber security, but the companies that are telling us this don’t seem to make it easy for us to get to grips with.

Circle Cloud are looking to cut through all the unnecessary noise with a seminar that focusses on the things that matter, and how they fit into the real world. Your business will be facing cyber threats and vulnerabilities every day, and we are going to tell you what they are, and how you can take practical steps towards protecting yourself against them.

Michael Povey is an IT professional who has worked in the industry for around 30 years.  He moved from a PLC to start Circle Cloud with business partner Tom Roberton in 2013. Since then, Circle Cloud have grown into a trusted brand by supporting small & medium businesses (SME's) with IT Support, Management, and cyber security, utilising the Microsoft Cloud.

Amplify your Brand
Charlotte Nichols

In this seminar learn how to turn up the volume of your brand by maximising your PR. During the session Charlotte will cover:

What is PR?
Benefits of PR
Creating a creative PR plan
Quick PR wins

Charlotte has over 20 years’ experience in PR, 15 of those running her own business, Harvey & Hugo. Alongside running her business and looking after her two young children, Charlotte hosts the PRsonal podcast which gets to know the real person behind the business professional.

 

 

The Value of local SEO in 2024

Linzi Cormack

In this session Linzi will share valuable insights into the evolving landscape of Chat GPT and how it fails and succeeds for business and SEO.

Linzi's career at Outrank began six years ago, her journey through various facets of SEO – from Local SEO to SEO strategist and finally to her current role as SEO Team Lead – reflects her comprehensive understanding of the field. Linzi stands out in her ability to adapt and innovate. Her passion for learning and applying new solutions has consistently driven success for her clients. This innovative mindset has benefitted her clients and significantly contributed to the evolution of Outrank's SEO practices which is now heavily.

 

The reason why you’re not where you want to be!

William Davies

In this seminar William will cover why you are not where you want to be… whether that’s business or personal & what you can do to change that and get the best results going forward.

 

William Davies is a young entrepreneur, business owner, mental & physical health enthusiast.

His passion and goal is to motivate and encourage people to get the best results out of their lives whether that be in business or personal.

William started out in business as a kid, growing up helping his parents run the family business and eventually starting his own company at age 16. Along his short nosiness journey William has already had many failures and learnt many valuable lessons whilst owning and operating his own business. William now invests in startups and helps them avoid the same mistakes he made.

Supercharge your socials; tactics, tips and tools to get results

Louise Williamson

Join Louise to find out more about why you need a plan for your social media marketing, what you should include and how to get started. In this whistle-stop tour, looking at organic social media marketing techniques, you will find out where to focus your efforts to get the most out of your chosen platforms.

From ideation to implementation… in this session Louise will talk you through creating your social media content, and how to use AI tools to make the creation quicker and easier.

With (too) many years of employed experience behind her, Louise stepped into the world of self-employment in 2018. Allowing for some much needed flexibility, she began working as a freelance administrator/Virtual PA for small businesses and not-for-profit organisations. This naturally morphed into a role that required a level of support within the digital marketing space for many of her clients. As a result, Louise has spent time honing her skills, experience and knowledge and now provides clients with support relating to social media (strategy and content creation), and email marketing.