Welcome to MicroBiz Matters

Advice

We are supported by Yorkshire in Business, a Scarborough-based organisation devoted to providing fully funded business advice to SMEs across North Yorkshire. 

Networking 

Our annual events are a fantastic opportunity to network - meeting new people can be the start of a new path for you and your business, so it's always important to engage with your neighbour businesses wherever possible.

Recognition

Sometimes as a small business, professional recognition can be rare. Our annual events offer you a platform to share your successes and celebrate your growth. Join us in 2022! 

Building Relationships

Building relationships can be difficult when you're investing all your time into your business, but it's important to make professional connections for future networking, 

What is #MicroBizMatters Day?

#MicroBizMatters Day is an annual (2nd Friday of each New Year) Day of Recognition, Action and Learning for micro business owners. 95% of all businesses in the UK are micro businesses (0-9 employees and under £2 million turnover).

It is a social media day when over one million business owners give a little time to support each other. Recognition is by use of the #MicroBizMatters hashtag. Action is support for the major campaigns to make life better for independent business owners of which #PayIn30Days which Tony Robinson OBE started in 1996, is the best known. Learning is from an event livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube featuring famous and successful business owners giving tips for success in different sectors.

Our History

 In January, 2012, Tina Boden and Tony Robinson OBE launched an informal online community to make life better for micro business owners everywhere. They initially called the informal, free, no contact details required, movement the Enterprise Rockers. The informal community, a network of networks, and movement is based on 4 campaigns which are: #NotAnSME, #PayIn30Days, #Indie25ER and #MicroBizMatters.

In January 2015 we held the first annual #MicroBizMatters Day and subsequently retitled our movement #MicroBizMatters. The host events for famous and successful business owners to attend and broadcast on YouTube and Facebook have been as follows:

● 2015 Google for Work/Sage in London ● 2016 Portobello Business Centre in London ● 2017 Pimlico Plumbers in London ● 2018 XYZ Works in Manchester ● 2019 Hull City Hall in Hull ● 2020 EKM in Preston ● 2021 Yorkshire in Business in Scarborough


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Celebrity Entrepreneur Guests

The Small is Beautiful Roll of Honour lists all of these kind entrepreneurs that have freely given their time to #MicroBizMatters Day. You can read profiles of most of them in the PDFs of the souvenir programmes for 2016, 2017 and 2018

You can also watch interviews with them over recent years here:

MicroBiz Matters - 2022 Schedule

Thursday, March 24, 2022

- 10am to 1.30pm Drop in at Nabs café; then either try a surfing experience with Dexters surf shop or an escape room experience with Escape Room Scarborough ; 7 miles run with Tony for #macmillancancersupport or stroll & beach chalet with Tina.... or sunbathe.  

 

- 2pm to 3.15pm: Scarborough’s own DJ, Paddy Billington, Food & Drinks in the Tipi 

followed by Ireland & UK Micro Business Awards Finals with Ruairi Devlin & Emily Whitehead ACIM 

 

- 3.30pm to 6.45pm Inspirational Speakers: Adam Corbally Lorraine Allman Ian Farrar  + Tony Robinson's "Who Wants To Be A Happipreneur?" Show + Q&A

 

- 7pm until late - Party time & more food at the Tipi venue, - “What happens in Scarbados stays in Scarbados”!  

Friday, March 25th, 2022

8th Annual & Final #MicroBizMatters Day (One Million Helping Hands)


- 7am to 12.30pm #MicroBizMatters Day Challenge (Virtual + live events)


*Live streaming tips from 25 top business owners


*Open Top Shoreline Suncruiser Bus tour with Tony Robinson, Networking on Seagrown ship & Ladies over lunch with Tina.  

 

- 1pm to 3.15pm at Stephen Joseph Theatre is “Levelling the playing field” Your MC is Adam Corbally with Small Business Commissioner Liz Barclay, Shadow Minister for Business & Industry Bill Esterson MP, Janet Jack, Ian Cass, Jill Poet. + Q&A   

 

- 3.30pm to 6pm “Get it done”

Starring: Adam Corbally + Hull young entrepreneurs + Business Boost Winners + Louise Third MBE & closed by Tina & Tony.   

 

- 7pm until late – Tipi party time + food + live band


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