Savvy Director, Helen Freeborough has been invited to join Business in the Arts North West as a business advisor.

Helen recently attended an induction session for the Skills Bank, a project management based volunteering programme, through which business managers are matched with arts organisations and museums needing advice in a particular area. She has also been asked to sit on the Board Bank where her advice will be provided at Board level to arts organisations across the region.

“As a keen supporter of the arts in the North West for many years, I was looking for a way to get more involved in an area I feel passionately about.

The idea of giving my time and energy on a voluntary basis was for me, a natural progression of the many ways in which I already support the Arts.

Not only will I help any organisation I work with, by bringing a different perspective and problem solving approach to their individual issues through my business experience, but in acting as a volunteer I am also satisfying a very personal need to ‘give something back’ – to an area that has given me so much over the years.”

Business in the Arts North West exists to bring business skills and experience to the arts in ways that are beneficial both to business and to the arts.

The Savvy Partnership has been invited to sit on an exclusive Insider discussion on collaboration between the technology sector and higher education community. Savvy’s Barry Bassnett will discuss with other senior figures drawn from technology businesses across the North West, the role closer collaboration between industry and education can play in keeping technology at the heart of the region. Comments from the discussion will form the basis of a feature to appear in the April issue of Insider.

The Savvy Partnership are one of 29 companies attending a professional development day for students on Wednesday 27th February at Cafe.com, MMU Business School. The event has been organised to provide students with an informal platform through which to access a wide range of companies from the North West Digital sector inorder to learn of and discuss the career and business opportunities within the regions vibrant and growing digital sector.

The Savvy Partnership has move to the Box Works in Castlefield, joining clients Virtuaffinity Web Designers and PushON Online Marketers in one of Urban Splash’s landmark mixed-use developments.