Expert Office Hours - Manchester Science Park

Expert Office Hours - free expert support to grow your business

Drop in for our Expert Office Hours at Bright Building, Manchester Science Park hosted by Bruntwood SciTech.

This is part of a regular series where you can meet a variety of support and subject matter experts to help grow your business and make valuable connections.

Mark your calendars and come prepared to Ask the Experts!

Our Experts:

Greater Manchester Business Growth Hub - The Greater Manchester (GM) Business Growth Hub offers businesses support for innovation, including access to funding, expertise, and facilities, particularly within life sciences, tech, and other key sectors like advanced manufacturing and net-zero. They provide grants, such as Innovation Vouchers, and facilitate collaborative R&D projects with universities and research organizations to accelerate product and service development. While the Hub provides a broad range of services, they also connect businesses to specific opportunities and expertise relevant to their sector.

CG Professional -Victoria & Surayya are Senior Associates at CG, a challenger, full-service commercial law firm that delivers legal services in a dynamic and modern way. They each specialise in Corporate and Commercial advice for businesses at all stages of their lifecycles respectively, including supporting on investment, corporate re-organisations, business sales, M&A, intellectual property matters, data protection and B2B / B2C contractual relationships. They also have a particular focus on partnering with growth businesses to work with them through their growth cycles, providing strategic advice and making sure that the business has the right foundations in place to help it progress in line with its aims.

Department for Business and Trade - Come along and meet your local Trade Advisers and have a chat about your export aspirations. They are more than happy to talk to you about your plans and ideas whether you are just thinking about exporting for the first time and starting to venture out on your export journey or have been exporting for a while and are keen to expand your international reach.

The local DBT team operates across the North of England supporting businesses through tailored services such as International Trade Advisers, the Export Academy and strategic partnerships with other local business support providers. We have dedicated International Trade Advisers who have a wealth of commercial experience along with sector and market knowledge, who work with businesses of all sizes to help them accelerate their international growth ambitions through impartial and tailored advice. By working with the DBT team, you will also gain access to local events, trade missions and meet-the-buyer events.

Use the booking form to let us know which expert/s you want to meet. Time slots will be for 30 minutes.

See you there!