Our teams at Yorkshire Forward

Yorkshire Forward is organised into 5 directorates (or departments), each led by an executive director: these are Business, Economic Inclusion, Environment, Finance and Strategy. The corporate management team is led by the assistant chief executive, and is concerned with the running of Yorkshire Forward itself.

Here are our teams under each directorate:

Business Directorate

• Business Support Services
• Competitiveness
• Enterprise & Access to Finance
• Marketing & Business Development
• Overseas Offices.

Corporate Management Team

• Board Secretariat
• Policy
• Internal Communications
• Organisational Development
• Press.

Economic Inclusion Directorate

• Geographic Programmes
• Human Resources
• Economic Inclusion
• Skills.

Environment Directorate

• Culture & Major Events
• Rural Renaissance
• Renaissance Towns & Cities
• Strategic Development & Property
• Tourism.

Finance Directorate

• Audit & Value for Money
• Europe
• Finance/Accountancy
• Performance
• Knowledge & IT.

Strategy Directorate

• Chief Economist’s Unit
• Economic Policy & Strategy
• Sustainable Development
• Transport
• Yorkshire Futures.