Partner organisations
We deliver many of our services in partnership with other agencies:
As MMU’s business start-up hub, Innospace provides a supportive environment to enterprising graduates, students and staff who are developing business ideas and beginning to trade.
The Centre for Enterprise provides academic services on the creation and transfer of knowledge to develop enterprise and entrepreneurship capability.
Blue Orchid Consulting Ltd specializes in helping clients to raise productivity, increase profits and secure steady growth.
Business Link is a free business advice and support service, available online and through local advisers, often from Innospace.
Business Support Solutions focuses on supporting individuals & businesses to achieve their full potential through a comprehensive range of services
Manchester University Entrepreneurs is a student organisation part of University of Manchester Students’ Union, UK’s largest Students’ Union. We are here to build future business and community leaders through environmental sustainable leadership practices.
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School (MMUBS) has been supporting industry and commerce in the city since 1889. Today's modern, full-range Business School offers undergraduate, postgraduate and higher research degrees in all major sub-disciplines of business and management.
The National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) was formed in 2004 with the aim of raising the profile of entrepreneurship and the option of starting your own business as a career choice amongst students and graduates. By understanding the circumstances in which graduate entrepreneurship can flourish, NCGE's goal is to influence, and inspire, an increase in the number of students and graduates who give serious thought to self-employment or business start-up.
NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts - an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative.
The official RDA, managing the economic development and regeneration of the region; promoting business efficiency, inward investment and competitiveness
The Prince’s Trust Enterprise Programme supports unemployed young people aged 18-30 to work out if their business ideas are viable and whether self-employment is right for them.
UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs - people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. We do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality.