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Greater Manchester businesses benefit from £25m of NPIF investments
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), delivered by British Business Bank, has invested £25m in ambitious, high-growth SMEs in Greater Manchester, to support expansion and job creation in the region.Since its launch in February 2017, NPIF has...
Greater Manchester’s Local Enterprise Partnership seeks new members
The Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership (GM LEP) is currently looking for senior business professionals to become new Members.
GMLEP Chair Joins Business Leaders For Number 10 Update
The chair of Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Mike Blackburn, joined other business leaders from England’s LEPs for a Downing Street meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May. The meeting was held to track progress on LEPs’ work with government to...
Have your say on Greater Manchester’s Local Industrial Strategy
Greater Manchester is a world-renowned centre of industry, innovation, enterprise and creativity. Developing a local industrial strategy is an exciting opportunity to build on the region’s pioneering history and drive the city-region forward as a global economic...
Access to talent fuels Manchester’s fast-growth tech cluster
Greater Manchester’s fast-growth tech cluster owes its success to the ready availability of technology and talent, according to tech leaders. Neville Roberts is Chief Executive and co-founder of Manchester FinTech software company...
GMLEP leader welcomes strengthened role for LEPs
The chairman of Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership has joined LEP business leaders in welcoming publication of the government’s Review of Local Enterprise Partnerships, and the additional £20m funding that underpins it. It will enable LEPs to continue to...