Bank of Dave’s Dave Fishwick announced as speaker at Yorkshire Children’s Charity business awards
Dave Fishwick, entrepreneur and the man behind Netflix hit, The Bank of Dave, has been announced as a speaker at 2025’s The Yorkshires Business Awards, organised by Yorkshire Children’s Charity.
Held on 5 December at The Queens Hotel, Leeds, the event will also host OBE and Olympian, Ed Clancy, who is being honoured with the Yorkshire Legend Award.
A string of Yorkshire businesses are set to be honoured at the annual event.
A spokesperson for the awards said: “Known as the ‘awards event with the biggest heart’, the annual event will celebrate all things excellent in the Yorkshire business sector.
“The awards event helps raise vital funds for the organisers, Yorkshire Children’s Charity and this is a chance for Yorkshire businesses to help raise much needed money to support children in the region who are at a disadvantage due to ill health, disability or financial circumstance.
“This includes helping to fund the charity’s winter support campaign, which this year is supporting over 2,300 children living in destitution with essential winter items – winter coats, shoes, bedding and pyjamas – and Christmas presents.”
Every ticket includes access to an exclusive pre-event talk and Q&A with digital specialist Ross Sleight, for his talk, AI: Friend, Foe... or Force Multiplier.
As part of the talk, Sleight will discuss how AI can build momentum for businesses and allow them to regain one day per week back.
The announcement of Mr Fishwick’s attendance comes after last month saw the finalists announced for the event.
Yorkshire firms Expect Distribution, Portakabin, Turner & Townsend and Wilson Power Solutions have been shortlisted in the Large Corporate of the Year category.
The Mid-Market Corporate of the Year has seen Mansfield Pollard & Co, Pagabo Group/The 55 Group and Professionals at Play nominated.
In the Innovation in Business category, MPAC Group, Production Park and Trackwork Limited have been shortlisted.
Bayford, Boston Energy Limited and Glass Recycling UK have been shortlisted in the ESG Excellence category.
Greg Wright, The Yorkshire Post’s deputy business editor, is set to host the awards.
A statement from Yorkshire Children’s Charity last month said: “Yorkshire Children's Charity would like to give thanks to headline sponsor, Rothschild & Co and co-sponsors Rosemont Pharmaceuticals, S&W, Clarion Solicitors, IDEAS That Work and The Yorkshire Post.”
Yorkshire Children’s Charity launched in 2022 with the purpose of “transforming the lives of disadvantaged children, from the Yorkshire Dales through to our inner cities”.
Around 400 attendees are expected to attend the event next month.