Tailored, confidential assistance to businesses looking to expand or relocate to the South East Midlands
The South Midlands is a rapidly growing and innovative economy. Benefiting from connections to London and the Midlands, international routes and the close proximity to global cities of Oxford and Cambridge.
The South Midlands area is a network of towns, interspersed with high-quality rural areas and a rich natural environment.
Our partnership connects local and national investment and business support services. Together we provide tailored, confidential assistance to businesses looking to expand or locate into the South Midlands area. We can:
If you’re interested in learning more about what the South Midlands can offer your business, please complete the form below, and Carl Mayers, Business and Commercial Enterprise Manager, will be in touch.
Our area is where progressive companies come to collaborate, to innovate and to succeed. The area’s connectivity has, over decades, attracted highly skilled people into businesses and research institutions that now lead innovation in some of the UK’s fastest-growing, high technology sectors.
By investing in people, places and business, the South Midlands is where we create opportunity.
The South Midlands occupies a strategically important location, linking Oxford, Cambridge, London and the Midlands. The area is comprised of local authority areas:
Our partnership works closely with neighbouring local authorities, and Mayoral Combined Authorities.
This is the area where clever ideas and new technologies coalesce into smart business solutions.
Businesses in the South Midlands are at the cutting-edge of new technology, driving research and furthering expertise in critical sectors. We have one of the strongest levels of university-business collaboration in the country, and businesses here are consistently top in terms of product and service innovation.
This area competes globally with sector capabilities across aerospace, automotive testing, advanced manufacturing, engineering and design, robotics and software development and electronics. It is home to clusters of business and expertise in high-performance technology and precision engineering, digital and creative, agri-tech and the food and drink sector and logistics.
This area is forecast to grow at a rate faster than any other UK region. We are home to 87,000 businesses, with one of the highest rates of business start-up and survival rates. Connecting the area’s development opportunities and ambition to grow with innovation strengths across the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, we have become the UK’s most attractive place to commercialise new technologies.
A network of investment and business development professionals in our local councils work jointly with the Growth Hub, government departments and other agencies to support companies looking to set up or expand in the area.
Specialist support for businesses to start-up, scale-up and succeed can be reached through the Growth Hub services.
Access the support here.
