Bruntwood SciTech

📸 From VIP live music experiences, family farm days and charity performances, to outdoor cinemas, industry events and school outreach days, it's been a busy year for our community engagement team across the regions. We want to make the workplace somewhere your team are excited to be. Industry-leading office design is great, but we know people want more. That's why we work hard to put together a series of events throughout the year that benefit you both professionally and personally. We're also actively engaged in the communities we operate in, and strive to provide opportunities for the young people in our local areas to learn more about STEM career paths. There's much more planned for 2025 ➡️ We'll see you in January!

Heading into the festive period with a record-breaking year for Circle Square! 👏 In 2024, 10 new hospitality, retail, and leisure brands joined the Circle Square neighbourhood in Manchester, securing over 33,000 sq. ft. of space, and enhancing the neighbourhood’s reputation as a leading hub for dining, leisure, and innovation. 2025 promises even more exciting developments with the opening of No.3 Circle Square next spring, welcoming even more leading brands to Manchester's ecosystem. 🔗 Read all about it: https://bit.ly/49NcweA

📸 King's House - an iconic building on an iconic street in Manchester Located in a prime spot in the city centre, with San Carlo taking proud residence on the ground floor, King's House couldn't be looking better this festive season. This 38,000 sq ft. building is currently undergoing a significant redevelopment, while maintaining its rich British heritage and period features. The timber sash windows and rustic interiors will be complemented with luxury metals, patterned finishes and a timeless design. Looking for office space with class and style? Get in touch. It'll be reopening in 2025, and you won't want to miss out 🔗 https://bit.ly/3DxLP1r Amspec Imperial Engineering Artin Light

The end of the year provides a great opportunity to look back and reflect on achievements from the past 12 months 💬 In this video, leaders from across our business have come together to share their 2024 highlights, from development milestones and expansions to supporting customer growth and community events. 👉 In a groundbreaking year of investment, over £1.45m sq. ft. of space has been transformed or is underway across our portfolio; cementing our position as the UK’s leading developer of city-wide innovation ecosystems, and the largest dedicated property platform for the UK knowledge economy. 👏 A huge thank you to our colleagues, partners and supporters for everything we’ve achieved over the past year! “The thing that I’m most proud of and I get the most energy from is the team of people that we’ve got here who are just absolutely smashing it out the park.” - Our CEO, Chris Oglesby Legal & General Capital Greater Manchester Pension Fund Bruntwood Richard Roper MRICS Kath Mackay Rob Valentine Andrew Cooke Mark Julian Katherine Megson Tony Reed Emma Harvey Alex Edwards

The success of your life science startup can be dependent on finding the right connections. That's where our upcoming Life Science Accelerator at Alderley Park comes in 👉 Designed to provide you with the support, funding and guidance you need to grow your business, and connecting you with the right people along the way. And, with the opportunity to receive tailored support and investor readiness advice from our partners Deepbridge Capital, as well as potentially up to £250,000 of SEIS funding - this programme has the opportunity to be transformative. Interested? You can find out more and apply here 🔗 https://bit.ly/4g7O7mz ProMake LTD Triple Chasm Andy Roberts

It was brilliant to host Legal & General's inaugural Connecting Capital event at our Circle Square campus in Manchester recently. Key highlights included hearing from António Simões, Laura Mason-Byers and our CEO Chris Oglesby during the introductory fireside chat, as well as our Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Kath Mackay in an insightful workshop covering innovation ecosystems. 👉 The event brought together L&G's unique ecosystem of partners including innovators, financiers, central government, local leaders, place makers and institutional investors from across Europe, and explored the transformative power of partnerships to help drive investment outperformance and create opportunities to collaborate more closely, driving their shared ambition for sustainable, inclusive societal growth. We're excited to see where our partnership takes us next year 👏

We're supporting demand for specialist workspace in Manchester, having committed £243m of investment in developments across the city centre in this past year alone, including bringing forward projects totalling 727,000 sq ft of new workspace. Redevelopments like Pall Mall, King's House and 117-119 Portland St. are undergoing incredible transformations, while new developments such as Greenheys, Citylabs 4.0 and No.3 Circle Square - which is due to complete in April 2025 - are progressing quickly. We've also seen the redevelopment of Bond this year and Renold Building - the first refurb at the newly renamed £1.7bn innovation district and neighbourhood, Sister, in partnership with the The University of Manchester. It's been an incredibly exciting year, and we can't wait to push ahead with more in 2025 🙌

Last week, we held the Female Founders Pitching Competition final at Innovation Birmingham! The four-week programme was designed to support Birmingham's female student entrepreneurs in overcoming the barriers they face. With £3,000 and £2,000 up for grabs to kick-start their entrepreneurial journeys, a panel of judges assessed the finalists live on the night! Run by University of Birmingham, Aston University, University College Birmingham and Birmingham City University - and co-sponsored by Bruntwood SciTech and HSBC - we were delighted to host such an inspiring event at our Birmingham campus. Huge congratulations to everyone involved! 👏

It’s back! Our Life Science Accelerator will return to Alderley Park next February to offer a second cohort of early-stage businesses with the comprehensive support they need to succeed 🧬💡 Deepbridge Capital have partnered with us to support successful teams with investor readiness advice, and potentially up to £250,000 of SEIS funding. 🔬 What the Programme Offers: 👉 Free lab space 👉 In-depth pitch practice sessions 👉 Bespoke business support from industry leaders 👉 £10,000 in flexible financial support for essential supplies or professional advice Kicking off with a two-day bootcamp at Alderley Park on Tuesday 11th & Wednesday 12th February, the Life Science Accelerator is the perfect opportunity to start the new year with renewed ambition. 📅 Apply now and secure your place: https://bit.ly/4g7O7mz Triple Chasm Andy Roberts

Already home to over 2,000 tech startups and more than 6,000 tech businesses, Birmingham has been handed a boost in 2024 with a wave of high-growth businesses announcing new office openings and expansions. So, what are the city's highlights from the past year? ✅ We've invested £50m into the city's workspaces to aid growth ✅ 20+ new tech and life sciences businesses and further expansions ✅ Startups scaling with tailored support and cutting-edge workspaces ✅ Birmingham’s reputation as a UK leader in life sciences continues to grow Rob Valentine, our Director of Birmingham, puts it best: "Birmingham is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting innovation hubs in the UK, and we’re proud to play a role in its growth by providing the spaces, support, and community businesses need to thrive." Find out more 🔗 https://bit.ly/4gs2FNB TechWM West Midlands Growth Company WMHTC West Midlands Health Technologies Cluster Health Innovation West Midlands PHTA Ltd #Innovation #LifeSciences #TechGrowth #BirminghamTech