About Business Services
Powering prosperity with business support
探花直播 (BCU) is driving major change in industry and communities by delivering solution focused business support programmes, projects, and services to organisations, groups, and individuals.
We accelerate opportunities for entrepreneurs to start businesses that create jobs and promote growth, and we collaborate with established businesses and organisations to share and develop new knowledge, skills, facilities, and resources to help achieve societal and commercial impact.
Our location in the heart of the city, region and England, along with our international connections, are fundamental to what we do 鈥� transforming people, places and businesses.
BCU Business Services
Our Business Services have been developed to offer support to businesses and organisations of all sizes, across all sectors, locally, nationally and internationally.听We have expanded our Business Services offer to include our SME support previously offered through BCU Advantage, enabling business and organisations to find more business support in one place.
Delivering annual regional and national impact
Over £481m for the regional economy
Our activities contributed 拢481m in gross value added (GVA) to the regional economy (拢665m nationally).
Over 10,000 jobs across the UK
The University鈥檚 economic footprint generated 10,080 jobs across the UK workforce, (5,950 in 探花直播).
Leading in enterprise development
BCU registered 218 active start up and spin-out firms in 2022/23 鈥� more than twice the UK University average.
Driving workforce skills
BCU delivered over 65,700 learner days on Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Continuing Education (CE) courses in 2022/23 鈥揻our times the national average.
Economic contribution
BCU contributes over 拢125m in tax revenues 鈥� equivalent to the average salaries of 3,800 NHS nurses.
Social inclusion and widening participation
BCU 2022/23 graduates' economic participation provided a 拢985m boost to the UK's human capital stock.听
*Academic year 22/23. Source: Oxford Economics
Four business support categories to service your needs
To help you find and enquire about the business support your organisation needs quickly and easily, we鈥檝e grouped our Business Services into four key categories:
Attend
Browse and register to attend our business support and networking events, or connect with our Events Team to hire BCU venues, facilities, rooms, and catering to support your own events, workshops, or meetings.
Attend and plan business eventsRecruit
A range of free graduate and student recruitment services designed to save you time, hassle and money when searching for the best candidates for your permanent and short-term job vacancies, or internship and placement opportunities.
Connect with support to help you RecruitCollaborate
Business support services which partner you with BCU experts and specialist, enabling your project, activity or venture to benefit from the knowledge, skills, facilities and resources at BCU that may be lacking in your business or organisation.
Find out about support to help you CollaborateLearn
Courses and programmes that can help you and your team achieve higher level academic qualifications with CPD, strengthen and grow work focused knowledge and skills with condensed and practical training, or benefit from Higher Degree Apprenticeships.
Discover support to help you LearnWhere to access support
Our business support services can be accessed at BCU campuses located across 探花直播, and online*.
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*Online access is not available for all BCU business services.
