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Our open, welcoming approach, relaxed communal spaces and regular breakfast meet-ups make sure that your place of work is so much more than just a place to work. With so many like-minded entrepreneurs all under one roof, new opportunities are just around the corner. Our support team can also help you find advice, funding and training to suit your business model.

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John Booth
Centre Manager
John has worked both in small family run business’s and huge organisations, such as Royal Mail and the NHS. He has many years’ management experience, heading up multi-site operations and large modern contact centres. John really enjoys working with people and is relishing the challenge being part of something special here in Stockport.
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Liz Wood
Assistant Centre Manager
Liz joined Oxford Innovation in August 2013 and is responsible for the daily operations within the centre. Prior to this, she worked for many happy years in international banking and more recently with regionally focused public sector organisations hosted by Stockport MBC. Liz is lucky to live in the Peak District, so outside of work she does lots of walking and goes to lots of gigs.
Tony Corcoran
Incubation Director
Tony joined the team in September 2013 and has a key role to play in the development of incubation and business growth support services at Stockport Business and Innovation Centre. He works to deliver intensive business support and advice whilst developing events, PR & networking opportunities for all clients within the centre.
Lynn Forbes
Centre Support Assistant
Lynn is a morning Centre Support Assistant and joined the team at Stockport Business & Innovation Centre in February 2016. She loves that the centre has a warm and friendly atmosphere with a great sense of community amongst our customers and visitors. She previously worked within the NHS, at Doctors Surgeries and a very busy Accident and Emergency Department. Lynn then took a 2 year break and moved to Baku, Azerbaijan, which was a fantastic experience for her. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends.
Jillian McNeil
Centre Support Assistant
Jill started at SBIC as the afternoon receptionist in November 2016. Previously she has worked in retail, the library service and in health support. She has a wealth of experience in customer service and enjoys interacting with our tenants and being part of the team at Stockport. Jill's hobbies include amateur dramatics in which she writes pantomimes and the occasional play, working both on and off stage. She also is a keen motorsport fan, and volunteers to work in the safety car at club level meets many weekends during the racing season.

Work among our many inspiring companies at the forefront of business.
Plasma Clean

Working across the UK and beyond, we provide grease, odour and smoke control systems that blend cutting-edge technology with the best of traditional techniques.
Nicholas Ryan Projects Ltd

For the past few years we have solely concentrated on domestic new build projects. Our business is acquiring land, obtaining planning consents and building the highest quality homes in places people aspire to live.
Instruments 4 Engineers

We offer a complete solution to engineers worldwide for new and used test equipment, EMC equipment, cables, RF components, waveguides, microscopes, hipot testers, sound level meters and much more.
Op-tec Systems

Op-tec Systems specialise in process controls and automation, working with clients in the manufacturing, food, and petro-chemical industries to reduce downtime and increase productivity.
Luxury Leasing

We specialise in personal and business contract car and van hire, arranging suitable finance for private individuals, business or even large fleet customers where required.
C & T Technology

We are able to provide a range of street furniture products, video bicycle and vehicle detection equipment, radar detection products for traffic signals, traffic counters, and Blutooth journey time monitoring systems.
FilmMyMatch

FilmMyMatch provides professional filming, editing and broadcast services for sports teams and organisations from grassroots to elite level.
Bariquins

A Bariquin is a plus-size mannequin training aid. ‘Barry’ as the original is known, is a bariatric training mannequin that weighs 25 stones (350lbs/159kgs), yet it is easy to disassemble to move or store by one person.
Tree Frog Digital

Specialists in search engine success, making the internet a more profitable place to do business.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Manchester

This organisation work with local voluntary youth clubs, providing positive activities for young people and training, support, advice and networking for volunteers.
HR Heroes

HR Heroes manage and support the needs of over 100 small businesses across the UK, dealing with aspects of Employment Law and staffing issues that arise.
LFX Events Ltd

LFX Events are a multi-disciplinary Events, Production & Risk Management consultancy, providing specialist on & off-site event services to clients.
Plasma Clean

Plasma Clean are an innovative and research-led UK technology company. They provide air purification systems that blend cutting-edge technology with the best of traditional techniques
Transport for Sick Children

Transport for Sick Children is a unique volunteer driver scheme, set up to help children with a health need living in Greater Manchester to access essential health care.
Trust

Trust are a branding and digital agency. They develop unique and recognisable branding and build digital materials.
Wordsworks

Wordsworks is a copywriting agency. They provide freelance copywriting services to the B2B, legal, financial, education and public sectors.

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Director at Purple Marketing
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Director at Purple Marketing
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Director at Purple Marketing
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Director at Purple Marketing
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Director at Purple Marketing
Susan Bradgate
Director at Purple Marketing
Steve Mayer
Director at Purple Marketing
Mark Fielding
Director at Purple Marketing

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Case studies

HR Heroes

Caroline Wood and David Coulter, HR Heroes founders, were disillusioned with working for corporate companies and decided to take control of their own destiny!

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FilmMyMatch

Dave Roe and Rob Hezel were managing a project to implement video analysis software at Football League clubs. This was when they saw the potential of video within grassroots sport, and set up FilmMyMatch.

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Trust

Trust, an award-wining branding and digital agency was set up in 2011 and moved into the Stockport Business and Innovation Centre (SBIC) in October 2016. They love their home here at SBIC, read how it has facilitated their growth and development and what interesting and exciting things they get up to! […]

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