ClimbUK North East · Wednesday 20 January 2027 · The Glasshouse, Gateshead
Bring your businesses to the room
Growth support works best when businesses connect with the people who can help them grow. Bring the founders you support to a day of practical sessions and an evening with investors and business leaders.
Practical growth for the businesses you back
Help your businesses can use
Four live sessions on investment and growth, built for founders to act on the next morning.
The regional debate, live
The Great Northern Investment Debate asks whether it is harder to raise in the North. Hear both sides and add your view.
Conversations you can follow up
Your businesses leave with new contacts and next steps, and you see first hand what they need from you next.
Part one
Part one: you make the call
11am to 4pm, in the auditorium. Four live sessions, built for you to take part, not sit through.
The Great Northern Investment Debate
Is it harder to raise investment in the North? Two opposing views, one lively debate, and an audience encouraged to challenge both sides.
Inside the Investment Committee
We recreate an investment committee meeting, so you see how investors evaluate opportunities, challenge assumptions and make investment decisions.
Business Growth: You Make the Call
A scaling business hits something unexpected. Our live role-play puts real business challenges on stage, and the audience helps decide what happens next.
The ClimbUK Business Growth Quiz
Think you know what it takes to build and scale a business? An interactive, fast-paced quiz, with prizes up for grabs.
Part two
Part two: the ClimbUK Takeover
From 5pm. A curated evening where the right people meet and conversations turn into opportunities.
Networking, ClimbUK Style
Great people, great conversations, and connections that could change the direction of your business.
Exclusive Roundtables
Small, invitation-only discussions where founders, investors and experts tackle real business challenges.
Investor Speed Networking
Fast-paced, focused conversations between selected founders and active investors.
High-Energy Founder Pitching
Selected businesses take the spotlight and show what they’re building.
Places for the evening’s structured activities will be strictly limited, with participants selected to ensure the right mix of people around the table.
Bring a group with you
The day works best when the businesses you support come with you.
- Share this page with the businesses you support. Each person registers for a place.
- Come to the debate: it is the regional investment question, argued live.
- Stay for the ClimbUK Takeover and see who your businesses connect with.
When you register, tick
- Exclusive Roundtables: “Yes, I would like to join one”
Straight answers
Yes. Each person registers for their own place, so share this page with the businesses you support.
Wednesday 20 January 2027, at The Glasshouse, Gateshead. Part one runs from 11am to 4pm in the auditorium. The ClimbUK Takeover starts at 5pm.
Yes. Places are limited and advance registration is essential. One registration covers the day and the evening.
Tell us when you register: there is a question each for Investor Speed Networking, High-Energy Founder Pitching and the Exclusive Roundtables. Places are limited, and we select participants to get the right mix of people around the table. We come back to you before the day.
No. ClimbUK North East is one day in January. Climb27, The Festival for Business Growth, runs on 30 June and 1 July 2027.
ClimbUK North East
Wednesday 20 January 2027
The Glasshouse, Gateshead
Don’t just hear about the conversations afterwards. Be part of them.
Wednesday 20 January 2027, The Glasshouse, Gateshead. Places are limited and advance registration is essential.