Greater Manchester

Marketing Manchester is the agency charged with promoting Greater Manchester nationally and internationally as a place to visit, invest, meet and study.

MIDAS - Our award-winning inward investment agency, seeks to secure significant levels of new investment and employment for Greater Manchester.

MIP, established in 2018 to unite private businesses, academia and the public sector across India and Greater Manchester to build and strengthen trade, investment, cultural, and educational ties.

The Manchester China Forum, established in 2013 drives forward the Greater Manchester-China relationship. The unique public-private partnership fosters understanding and is designed to ensure growth in commercial connectivity between Greater Manchester and China.

A Greater Manchester innovation, adopted nationally, delivers tailored programmes to assist entrepreneurs and businesses to start, grow, innovate, raise finance, develop their workforce, internationalise and become environmentally sustainable.

Skills for Growth is a fully funded tailored service to help up-skill your employees and improve business productivity. This could be to streamline or improve your products or services, innovate new products and services or the core skills needed to run your business.

EnterprisingYou is a specially designed programme to support self-employed individuals (including those who work in the gig economy) and small business owners to growth their income and business.

The Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter is a voluntary membership and assessment scheme which has been created to improve employment standards across all GM employers, regardless of size, sector or geography.