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YAB: Trading knowledge, not pitches
The world’s first peer-to-peer business community growing our businesses through structured helping, and not awkward selling
  • ​Learn, understand and apply new tools to help grow your business
  • ​Grow your business together with other business leaders
  • ​Feel the buzz of using your experience as a business owner to help others
  • Tap into unlimited expertise to help you solve any challenge
  • Do business with people you love and trust
  • Feel part of a networking community you believe in
  • ​And...you'll never have to attend an awkward sales-based networking event ever again!
The Business Community You've Been Looking For
Your Affordable Board
Started in Lancashire, we are the world’s only peer-to-peer business community growing our businesses through structured helping, and not awkward selling.
Join us for our 'SuperYAB' event on Friday 7th October.
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Come along as our guest & experience YAB for yourself!
You know what it’s like at a normal business networking meeting?
Plenty of pinstripes, fake laughs, crap coffee, and awkward sales pitches given with an air of desperation?

We think it’s time for something different.

Imagine a community of business leaders (company owners and directors) getting together to solve each other’s problems. Then, add a safe environment where everyone can simply be themselves, and you have YAB. Because that’s the problem when you’re a business owner. Who do you talk to about your problems?

Sure, your partner at home will listen and be supportive. Your friends will give you sympathy. But you’re the one who has to come up with the answers. That's where YAB - Your Affordable Board comes in.

Because every problem in the room is solved by the room. And best of all, during that process, we form stronger bonds than we ever would in a sales-focused networking event. And the sales come naturally.

Intrigued?

Join us at our next group meeting in either Blackburn, Chorley, Burnley, Lancaster or Manchester and see first hand why we are the fastest growing business networking group that ISN’T really one!

During the meeting, you’ll have the opportunity to get your business problems solved in our mini masterminds and experience the power of every mind in the room all working together to solve one major headache for just one lucky business leader!

You’ll also get plenty of time to meet other business leaders in the local area and who knows where those relationships might lead to!

Oh, and did we mention that included in your free guest pass, you’ll get breakfast and unlimited juice, tea and coffee to keep you going!

Click the button below, complete the form and we'll be in touch!
Trading knowledge, not pitches.
At YAB, you’ll have the opportunity to get your business problems solved in our mini masterminds and communityMIND, as well as experience the power of every mind in the room all working together to solve one major headache for just one lucky business leader! 

You’ll also get plenty of time to meet other business leaders in the local area, and who knows where those relationships might lead to!
Secure your FREE guest pass today...
Included in your free guest pass, you’ll get breakfast and unlimited juice, tea and coffee to keep you going too!

YAB meeting are held monthly on Tuesday's, Thursday's and Friday's depending on location. We always start at 9am for breakfast and relationship building, then we sit down at 9:30am to start and we end at noon.

With limited capacity at each venue, you’ll want to secure your free guest pass today to avoid disappointment!
Don't just take our word for it, take a look at what just a few of our members had to say about YAB:
  • There’s no sales pitch, no 45 second speech – instead just a genuine opportunity to get to know other business owners, which naturally leads to working relationships forming and work being passed in the room! I absolutely love YAB, and highly recommend it to everyone I meet at Networking! - Stacie Batterham
  • It’s a place that feels safe, a place that gives you a break from all the anxiety and stress that owning a business brings. Everyone in the room can resonate with you on a personal level, having so much diversity and skillset within the groups helps you overcome “ANY” problem you may have. It’s just powered by mates - how ace is that 😀- Dave Liggins
  • Not sure you can put “I just bloody love it” so I’ll expand…I look forward to Yab, and I go to whichever extra Yabs I can get to.. because I know I’m going to come away feeling positive and clear minded for my own business wether I’m the one being helped or if I’m helping others, as well as the feeling of belonging to a group of likeminded people I can share any news with and I’ll be supported! 🙌 - Lucy Waide
  • ​As a business leader I love the fact that you can share fears and mistakes and the consequences are positive recommendations. Everyone’s success is our common goal - Pam Steed
  • ​​There are very few business networks that are as much about others as they are about you, but then YAB isn’t your standard business network. YAB is a community of likeminded people. People who want to grow great businesses but also invest in others to see their businesses grow too. YAB is about sharing the challenges and celebrating the wins, however you walk into the room. Who wouldn’t want to hang about in a space where people genuinely care about how you are doing in and outside of work! - Dave Scholes
  • ​YAB is a sandbox for us all as business leaders. It gives us a safe place to play, connect, try new things, feel supported and it’s soft if we fall over. It’s also the foundation of how business leaders will create community success in the 21st century. In decades to come, 2021 will be looked back on as the year YAB Made A Difference - Darren Neil
Take a sneak peak of what you can expect when you attend a YAB meeting...
YAB locations
YAB Blackburn
YAB Blackburn
Avenue Hotel, Brockhall Village, Old Langho, Blackburn, BB6 8AY
YAB Burnley
YAB Burnley
The Inn On The Wharf, Manchester Rd, Burnley, BB11 1JG
YAB Chorley
YAB Chorley
Baaa 38, 38 Market St, Chorley, PR7 2SE
YAB Manchester
YAB Manchester
UseSpace, Paddock St, Manchester, M12 6PN
YAB Stockport
YAB Lancaster
Art Club, 25 Shaw Road, Heaton Moor, Stockport, SK4 4AG
YAB Lancaster
YAB Lancaster
Forrest Hills, Hazelrigg Ln, Ellel, Lancaster, LA2 0PL
YAB Plymouth
YAB Manchester
BLOCK, Melville Building, Royal William Yard, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 3RP
What YAB members are saying...
Ian Worthington
Dave Scholes
Lucy Waide
Rebecca Lindley
James Harper
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Frequently asked questions
Who are the meetings for? 
Business owners, board directors, organisation leaders. Any industry is welcome, and any size too - solo, micro, small, medium or large! The diversity is what makes it special.
What's the dress code like?
Come as you are. No judgements here. Feel comfortable in a suit? Wear that. What about Adidas trainers and a tee? Of course! Everyone, is welcome at YAB!
When and where?
YAB board meetings are on Tuesday's, Thursday's and Friday's, depending on the location. Turn up for 9am for breaky and a brew and we'll get started at 9:30am and finish at noon.
I'm in, what do I do next? 
We’d love to see you at our next YAB meeting, enter your details into the form and we'll be in touch!
What makes YAB different
Our Purpose.
Is to end the feeling of isolation and disconnection felt by business leaders worldwide, by providing a community platform to help others and to be helped ourselves.
Our Mission.
Is to create a platform to support each other through the highs and lows of business ownership. A community, working together to do valuable and meaningful work, solving problems, and celebrating successes, whilst growing ourselves and our businesses in a profoundly meaningful way.
Our Commitment.
We’ll play an active part in making a real difference to the lives of our peers, we will build authentic friendships with like-minded people, and we’ll develop a deep sense of belonging from our community and the work we’ll do together.
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