Business Conservation: From Endangered to Empowered

We’re thrilled to invite you to a truly unique experience:

🦍 Business Conservation: from endangered to empowered

📅 16 October🕥 10:30 – 15:00 (with optional zoo tour after)

📍Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Join us on a journey from surviving to thriving as we explore how businesses can protect, nurture, and future-proof their people strategies—drawing inspiration from the wild!

🌿 What to Expect:

Expert Workshops on changes to employment law and what they mean for your business, employee well-being, mental health, people risk management, aging workforces—all set against the backdrop of rising people costs.

Keynote Talks from industry leaders from Unum, Howarths, The CFO Centre and Partners&

Lively Roundtable Discussions tackling real-world challenges facing your people

Networking & Lunch in a truly unforgettable setting

🐒 Optional: Tour of the park following the event

Whether you're grappling with limited budgets, mental health challenges, or workforce succession planning—this is your chance to explore solutions and future-proof your business.

The best part? Your presence can make a difference.We’ll be running a charity raffle on the day, with all proceeds going to support our regional charity partner, , who are dedicated to helping people experiencing homelessness into employment and housing.

👉 Spaces are limited – reserve your place today!

We look forward to welcoming you!

Unum

Unum is a specialist employee benefits provider, leading the UK towards healthier, more productive workplaces. With over 175 years' experience in helping people, Unum Group has a history of thinking ahead. We offer financial protection through the workplace including Group Income Protection, Life Insurance, Critical Illness and Corporate Dental cover. We’re committed to health and wellbeing in society, so we help businesses build wellbeing strategies that make a difference to employees and their families. We constantly challenge ourselves to run our business in the right way – the way that’s right for our customers, our communities and the planet we all share.

The CFO Centre

As the world's number one provider of fractional Chief Financial Officers, The CFO Centre has over 700 CFOs based in over 18 countries with expertise spanning over 30 industries.

For over 20 years, we’ve helped thousands of businesses to scale faster, increase valuation and hit their ambitious targets by providing high calibre part-time CFOs.

We pride ourselves on building strong relationships and delivering high quality strategic leadership covering everything from inception to exit.

We’ll start by getting clear on your most ambitious business and personal goals and then work with you to build and deliver the financial plan to make it happen.

Howarths

Howarths is the leading people consultancy in the North across legal, safety and growth.

We cover all areas of employment law, strategic HR growth, Health & Safety, business immigration and training.

We’re a 2nd generation family-run business, founded in 2003. Since then, our services have been cultivated and fine-tuned, developing our talent, offering and SLAs to match our clients’ needs. Our multi-year ‘fixed fee’ compliance services give SME businesses surety over their costs, without any compromise in service levels – expert, fast, commercial.

Our values are paramount to our business, service and talent – Graft. Together. Heart. Grit. It’s what sets us apart.

Because it's not all about what we do, it's how we do it. With personality, with knowledge of the client's business, understanding their nuances, an integrated approach across all three service delivery teams, not passing someone around from pillar to post, delivering a service in a calm, professional, assured way - a fully embedded, outsourced HR, employment law and H&S extension to a business, at a fraction of the cost of hiring in-house expertise.

Info: In a world of rising risks and isolated workforces, safeguarding employee wellbeing has never been more vital. This session explores the mental health crisis, the realities of disconnected teams, and the growing pressure on people risk management—framed within the evolving context of the Employment Rights Bill 2025. The landscape is shifting fast. Discover how to build a resilient, compliant workforce that not only survives—but thrives.

Info: An aging workforce brings both rich opportunity and risk. This session explores the impact of demographic shifts on business continuity, knowledge retention, and exit planning. Discover how to conserve expertise, protect your key people, empower and plan for a sustainable, future-ready workforce.

Info: When budgets are tight and NI costs rise, how do you keep investing in your people? This practical session offers insights into balancing financial constraints with long-term workforce value. Learn how to align cost control with care.

Info: Why do some businesses thrive while others merely survive? This dynamic panel brings together all of our experts to explore the common threads behind sustainable, people-first strategies. From mental health to workforce planning and financial resilience, we’ll unpack real challenges and share actionable ideas to help you build a thriving workplace ecosystem—resilient, adaptable, and built to last.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Hurst Lane, Doncaster, United Kingdom