YORKSHIRE Forward and the Engineering Employers Federation have created an online business and learning tool to help managers in the manufacturing and engineering sector.

It will help leaders develop their planning skills and produce a strategic plan for their business.

Called Strategy Blueprint - Your Plan for Success, it will be launched to the business community at Motel Leeming, Leeming Bar, Bedale, on Thursday, June 26, from 6.30pm to 8pm.

The initiative is intended to encourage regional entrepreneurship, strategic leader-ship and business management.

It is available either online or as a CD-Rom, and is free during the launch year.

For further information on either the presentation or the Strategy Blueprint programme, call (01677) 458200, or visit the website at www. strategyblueprint.com