diff --git a/.github/workflows/update_license.yml b/.github/workflows/update_license.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c426493ed6..0000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/update_license.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-name: Update copyright year(s)
-
-on:
-  # Manual trigger
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  # Every January 1st at 3am GMT
-  schedule:
-    - cron: "0 3 1 1 *"
-
-jobs:
-  license:
-    # This workflow is only of value to PyBaMM and would always be skipped in forks
-    if: github.repository_owner == 'pybamm-team'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Update year in license
-        uses: FantasticFiasco/action-update-license-year@9135da8f9ccc675217e02357c744b6b541d45cb0 # v3.0.2
-        with:
-          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          path: LICENSE.txt
-
-  docs:
-    # This workflow is only of value to PyBaMM and would always be skipped in forks
-    if: github.repository_owner == 'pybamm-team'
-    needs: license
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Update year in docs
-        uses: FantasticFiasco/action-update-license-year@9135da8f9ccc675217e02357c744b6b541d45cb0 # v3.0.2
-        with:
-          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          path: docs/conf.py
-          transform: (?<=copyright = ")(?<from>\d{4})?-?(\d{4})?
diff --git a/.github/workflows/validation_benchmarks.yml b/.github/workflows/validation_benchmarks.yml
index 5b5d5fad21..8100171b83 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validation_benchmarks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validation_benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 name: Alert validation repository
 on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
   release:
     types:
       - published
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - develop
 
 jobs:
   build: