Sci-Tech Daresbury has welcomed British Business Bank to its prestigious Gold Partner programme. The British Business Bank, an financial improvement financial institution owned by the Department for Business and Trade however operationally impartial, will be a part of ten different main organisations within the campus’s Gold Partner community. Together, they supply world-class enterprise help, experience, and specialist companies to the campus neighborhood.
Gold Partners are a choose group of organisations that work straight with over 160 start-ups, scale-ups, and international firms based mostly at Sci-Tech Daresbury. Together, they supply a complete vary of specialist companies important to knowledge-intensive industries – from mental property, scientific analysis, and AI and digital options to know-how commercialisation, laboratory and engineering infrastructure, insurance coverage, finance, taxation, authorized, and advertising and marketing experience.
The help of the Gold Partners and corporations inside the wider Sci-Tech Daresbury ecosystem helps enhance the likelihood of success and price of acceleration for the science, know-how and engineering firms at Sci-Tech Daresbury. According to knowledge captured via campus surveys, on common, companies at Sci-Tech Daresbury achieved a formidable gross sales progress price of over 25% per yr and failure price on campus of solely 7% – a testomony to the energy of the ecosystem and companion community.
Following the success of the 2024/2025 Gold Partners programme, Asset Lifecycle Solutions, Bouygues Energies & Services (BYES), David Antrobus Marketing, Grant Thornton, IBM, Konsileo, Marks and Clerk, RTC North, Slater Heelis and University of Liverpool are all persevering with their legacy with Sci-Tech Daresbury.
John Leake, Business Growth Director at Sci-Tech Daresbury says: “Welcoming the British Business Bank as a Gold Partner marks another step forward in strengthening the support network for our campus companies. Its track record in unlocking growth finance and backing ambitious entrepreneurs will help our businesses move faster, think bigger, and compete with confidence in global markets. They perfectly complement the incredible breadth and depth of expertise that our ten other Gold Partners bring to help reduce risks and accelerate growth for the businesses on the campus.”
Delyth Edwards, Senior Manager for the North West on the British Business Bank: “Access to the correct finance on the proper time may be transformational for progressive firms. By becoming a member of the Gold Partner programme at Sci-Tech Daresbury, we will work extra carefully with the pioneering companies on campus – serving to them get entry to the correct recommendation and steerage on their funding wants, and securing this on the proper time to scale, create high-value jobs, and compete on the worldwide stage.“
As a key North of England location the place science, know-how and engineering firms can thrive, Sci-Tech Daresbury’s campus partnerships have a circa 15-year monitor file of supporting a variety of innovation-based companies. The companions assist with important components of the method, together with securing funding, defending mental property, and providing recommendation on authorized, monetary, and enterprise issues.
British Business Bank is the latest skilled organisation to affix this main cohort of valued and trusted companions. Other Gold Partners embrace:
Asset Lifecycle Solutions is likely one of the UK’s most extremely accredited IT asset disposal specialists, holding the ADISA STANDARD 8.0 DIAL 3 certification. It gives sustainable and safe IT lifecycle administration companies throughout each the private and non-private sectors. Asset Lifecycle Solutions’ experience spans the accountable recycling of apparatus to the safe disposal of knowledge, making certain compliance and peace of thoughts for its shoppers. Committed to creating social worth, the corporate actively offers again refurbished IT tools to the neighborhood via numerous initiatives, supporting schooling, native improvement, and environmental sustainability.
Bouygues Energies & Services (BYES) specialises in designing and constructing course of amenities and cleanrooms for the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. With greater than 50 years’ expertise, we work with shoppers starting from SMEs to international pharmaceutical firms. Our initiatives cowl the complete spectrum—from laboratories and pilot crops to scale-up amenities and large-scale manufacturing. We ship secure, environment friendly, and sustainable options that meet the very best regulatory requirements, supporting organisations at each stage of their progress and manufacturing journey.
David Antrobus Marketing: Strategic Growth Partners – With practically three many years of expertise, this devoted staff makes advertising and marketing accountable, worthwhile, and transformative. Their experience spans international establishments and rising SMEs. They turn out to be an extension of consumer groups, listening first and creating methods uniquely tailor-made to every enterprise. Services embrace strategic advertising and marketing consultancy, branding & design, web site improvement, search engine optimisation, promoting & campaigns, and exhibition & occasion advertising and marketing.
Grant Thornton is likely one of the world’s main organisations of impartial assurance, tax and advisory companies. It combines international scale with native perception and understanding to construct relationships and ship the companies firms want to grasp their ambitions. From its native places of work in Manchester and Liverpool it presents a full suite of audit, tax and advisory companies and specifically, help firms on campus with R&D tax credit, outsourcing monetary book-keeping, accounts preparation, company and private tax compliance.
IBM Research is on the forefront of computing, creating the following advances in know-how throughout quantum computing, enterprise AI basis fashions and {hardware}, and semiconductor analysis. The Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI) – a joint programme ensuing from a five-year collaboration between STFC and IBM – is grounded in concrete analysis questions and knowledge from ongoing R&D work, serving to to develop progressive options to business challenges.
Konsileo is an award-winning next-generation, forward-thinking tech insurance coverage dealer.
Its specialist brokers give attention to the corporate’s prospects’ necessities and can discuss them via their cowl choices. It specialises in areas of Technology & Innovation, Healthcare & life Sciences, Start-ups & Spinouts utilizing international insurer companions reminiscent of reminiscent of Hiscox, CFC, AXA, XL Catlin, Chubb, CNA Hardy and Lloyds. Examples of covers accessible are: Professional Indemnity, Liabilities, Cyber, Business interruption together with R&D Expenditure, Directors & Officers, Clinical Trials, Worldwide enterprise journey and Intellectual Property. Its shoppers vary from college spin outs to international know-how and life science companies with excessive USA and worldwide publicity.
Marks & Clerk, mental property (IP) consultants, has a full IP service providing, giving clear, sensible and commercially centered recommendation on all IP issues (patents, logos, designs, copyright, litigation, due diligence, and many others.), serving to companies to determine, shield, implement, defend and maximise the worth of their improvements and types within the UK and abroad, through its worldwide community of places of work.
RTC North is likely one of the UK’s main suppliers of enterprise help and innovation companies, serving to organisations to develop, innovate, and compete on a world scale. Established in 1989, RTC specialises in supporting technology-based companies, growing new merchandise, and opening routes to new markets, having labored straight with over 30,000 SMEs throughout the North of England.
Slater Heelis is a full-service legislation agency with a give attention to business choices, offering companies working within the Innovation, Technology and Manufacturing sectors with a Partner led specialist authorized help. Its attorneys are in a position to advise on company constructions, governance, funding and funding rounds, NDA’s, business contracts, mental property rights administration and licensing, employment legislation, consultancy and sub-contracting and dispute decision.
The University of Liverpool is likely one of the UK’s main research-intensive greater schooling establishments with an annual turnover of £708.3 million, together with an annual analysis revenue of £163.1 million. The University is a member of the distinguished Russell Group of the UK’s main analysis universities and the N8 Research Partnership and is constantly ranked within the high 200 universities worldwide.