Your invitation to exhibit at the upcoming SEND Next Choices event on Tuesday 24th June 2025
SEND Next Choices – Getting ready for adult life
Leeds first direct arena | Tuesday 24th June 2025 | 10am-6pm
We are delighted to invite you to exhibit at the forthcoming SEND Next Choices – Getting ready for adult life event on Tuesday 24th June 2025 at Leeds first direct arena.
Organised by Leeds City Council’s Employment & Skills Service, the event will bring together a wide range of organisations who can offer information, support, advice and careers to young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities, as they look to move into adult life along with their parents and carers.
The event was delivered for the first time in 2022 and has since become a successful and highly anticipated annual event due to its popularity. Feedback from both exhibitors and visitors has been overwhelmingly positive. Last year over 65 exhibitors and 2,200 visitors attended on the day. This year, we hope the event will be an even greater success and it would be great to have you there. There is no charge to exhibit but we ask that you commit to staying for the full duration of the event.
We aim for the event to be fun, informative and interactive and to provide information about jobs, training, apprenticeships, college courses, voluntary work, leisure activities, finances and benefits and services to support young people into adulthood. It will be a chance for visitors to find out more about opportunities in the city and about the services available from a wide range of organisations who can help.
We expect the event to be very well attended. An extensive publicity campaign is planned involving social media, mailouts, screens across Leeds and local press. Schools will attend with students during the day and young people will come along with parents and carers during the later hours.
A visitor guide with information about all exhibitors attending will be produced. This will be printed and handed out on the day of the event as well as electronically mailed out in advance of the event.
The event will also include a networking session for exhibitors only at 3pm-4pm. Full details will follow as we prepare for the event.
If you would like to book a FREE stand at the event, please complete and return the attached booking form to esemployers@leeds.gov.uk no later than Friday 11th April 2025.
As well as free exhibitor stands, this year we are offering sponsorship opportunities, as we no longer receive funding for the event. Further details are attached to this email. Sponsorship helps us to run the event and gives your organisation the opportunity to showcase what you do to a large audience.
Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Kind regards,
The SEND Next Choices 2025 Team
Employment and Skills Leeds, Leeds City Council
Email us: esemployers@leeds.gov.uk
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