Community & Events

Equality, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) in the workplace isn’t a new concept and employers and employees are realising the importance and significance of ED&I more than ever.  In the first of two forums devoted to it we are going to focus on disability in the workplace, including physical, mental health and neurodiversity.   People with ... Read more

Join TechSPARK for a great evening of catching up with other like-minded entrepreneurs and tech investors. At this event, you will be hearing from successful founder Zara Nanu. Zara built Gapsquare a business that focuses on FairPay pay gap analytics & strategy. This event is sponsored by ISL Recruitment. Register to attend the event on LinkedIn here.

On Wednesday 8 December, Moneypenny's Andrew Collis, BAE Systems' Alison Ramsay and Carr's Pasties' Matt Carr will join us as part of our Inspire series to share their most successful post-pandemic talent practices with you. Engaged teams are proven to unlock better productivity, so we're delighted to bring you these fresh perspectives on finding, recruiting and motivating the talent within your business.  

Audio based content has grown extensively in popularity over the last few years, with over 15 million recorded podcast listeners now in the UK alone since 2020. Many businesses are now beginning to see the benefit of podcasting as a stand-alone or integrated marketing tool, which enables them to gain the influence or credibility to ... Read more

We hope you all agree, it is high time we had a proper Christmas party! You are cordially invited to join us on 9th December at 4pm for the Future Space Christmas party. Dust off your quiz hats and fill your glasses, we're going to have a cosy evening of festive fun. This year will ... Read more

This R&D Tax Credits webinar is brought to you by Innovation Centre Knowledge Gateway (ICKG) in collaboration with EY and The University of Essex Enterprise Zone. Research and Development (R&D) reliefs support companies that work on innovative projects in science and technology. It can be claimed by a range of companies that seek to research ... Read more

About this event A UK and global first, UMBRELLA is an open, programmable, universal, smart urban and industrial internet of things testbed. Promoting research, innovation, collaboration, and real-world testing by providing access to all essential state-of-the-art IoT enabling technologies in one place, with an easily accessible toolset to develop a broad range of use cases ... Read more

Join Scott Preece (Senior Associate – investments) and Brett Lambe (Senior Associate – contracts & IP) of Ashfords as they take you through the practicalities of what you should expect from an investment round and some of the key things you can do to be “investment ready". Whatever stage of the investment journey you’re at, ... Read more

Some of our members have been asking for us to support them in achieving regulatory compliance and CPD training. We’ve had a number of requests to run First Aid training and are delighted to be bringing provider CRS training on site to offer this.   The training provides a certificate in First Aid in the ... Read more

BioSeed, which is organised by OBN​, is a fast-paced, one-day pitching event where innovative early-stage Life Sciences companies seeking Seed or Series-A funding, showcase to and meet with an extensive audience of active life sciences investors. Key features of the event include: 50 x 5-minute company presentations from early-stage life sciences R&D companies seeking seed stage funding ... Read more