ClimbUK North East · Wednesday 20 January 2027 · The Glasshouse, Gateshead
Growing fast? Make the right calls sooner
A day of live sessions on the decisions every scaling business faces, then an evening with founders, investors and experienced business leaders who have been where you are going.
Practical growth you can act on tomorrow
Practise the hard decisions
Business Growth: You Make the Call puts real scaling challenges on stage. You help decide what happens next.
Peers one step ahead
Talk with founders who have already reached the stage you are aiming for, and learn what they would do differently.
Money, when you need it
See how investors think inside the investment committee, and find investors in the evening who are looking for their next deal.
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.
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.
Inside the Investment Committee
We recreate an investment committee meeting, so you see how investors evaluate opportunities, challenge assumptions and make investment decisions.
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.
Part two
Part two: the ClimbUK Takeover
From 5pm. A curated evening where the right people meet and conversations turn into opportunities.
Exclusive Roundtables
Small, invitation-only discussions where founders, investors and experts tackle real business challenges.
Networking, ClimbUK Style
Great people, great conversations, and connections that could change the direction of your business.
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 your toughest question
The day works best when you bring the challenge that is on your desk right now.
- Bring the one growth decision you are stuck on and ask it in the room.
- Register your interest in a roundtable when you book.
- Bring a colleague who shares the decisions. Each of you registers for a place.
When you register, tick
- Exclusive Roundtables: “Yes, I would like to join one”
- Investor Speed Networking: “Yes, as a founder raising investment”, if you are raising
Straight answers
The role-play and the roundtables work best with the people who share the decisions. Each person registers for their own place.
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.