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ADS
ADS represents and supports over 1100 UK businesses operating in the aerospace, defence, security and space sectors. Their membership ranges from SMEs to global primes.
ADS is at the forefront of an array of activities, events and programmes that benefit their members.
Make UK
Make UK is backing manufacturing to engineer a digital, global and green future. They work to influence government policy to ensure the issues that matter to UK manufacturing are heard.
Make UK are campaigning to ensure the sector are global leaders on world markets, making a digital future reality, leading the green revolution, and inspiring the next generation of creators, makers and innovators.
Their message to Government is clear, back UK manufacturing and support manufacturers to: boost productivity, power economic growth; and deliver shared opportunity in every region of the UK.
Midlands Aerospace Alliance
The Midlands Aerospace Alliance was formed in 2003 to support and represent the aerospace industry across the Midlands region.
Farnborough Aerospace Consortium
FAC (Farnborough Aerospace Consortium) is a business-winning trade association with national and international members. It is the longest established aerospace and defence trade body in the UK, providing support to some 300 companies located in southern England.
Aerospace Wales
The Aerospace Wales Forum is the trade association for all companies operating in the Aerospace & Defence sector in Wales. We support our members by promoting their companies on our website, in our capabilities brochure and trade brochure and by giving them access to events, networking opportunities and industry expertise. As a membership organisation, we recognise that our value is measured by what we deliver and achieve for our members. To this end, we are committed to exploring new ideas and finding new clusters/collaborations that offer even more value to our membership.
North West Aerospace Alliance
The North West Aerospace Alliance (NWAA) was formed in 1994 to represent and support the Aerospace Industry across the North West of England. NWAA represents approximately 25% of the UK aerospace industry with over 220 member companies and a combined turnover in excess of £7 Billion.
Invest Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is recognised for its commitment to developing world-class innovative technology for the aerospace, defence, security and space sectors. It has a vibrant and rapidly growing industry, founded on a strong engineering heritage and backed by robust research competence, collaboration, world-leading academic institutions, and integral manufacturing capabilities, skills and experience.
UK Government
Department for Business & Trade
The DBT is a UK government department that helps businesses export and grow into global markets, as well as helping overseas companies locate and grow in the UK.
They provide tailored support and advice for businesses on how to start exporting or increase the amount of goods and services they sell overseas.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
BEIS is a department of the UK government set up in 2016 through a merger between the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Department of Energy and Climate Change.
BEIS works to build a stronger, greener future by tackling climate change, unleashing innovation and making the UK a great place to work and do business.
Industry Support Programs
Aerospace
Aerospace Growth Partnership
The AGP is a strategic partnership between the UK Government, industry and other key stakeholders, established to secure the future of the UK aerospace industry in the face of an ever changing, and increasingly competitive global landscape. This partnership is intended as a vehicle to tackle barriers to growth, boost competitiveness and exports and grow the number of high value jobs in the UK.
Aerospace Technology Institute
The Aerospace Technology institute promotes transformative technology in air transport. They create the technology strategy for the UK Aerospace sector and fund world class research and development.
The ATI works in partnership with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Innovate UK to offer funding designed to accelerate innovation in the UK to maintain global competitiveness.
Defence
Defence Growth Partnership
The Defence Growth Partnership is a partnership between the UK Government and the British defence industry, formed following a recognition that a bold new approach was needed to improve the sector’s competitiveness.
The DGP is working to secure a truly competitive, sustainable and globally successful UK Defence sector that provides leading-edge capability and through-life support for our Armed Forces and International customers, as well as bringing wider economic benefits to the UK.
Advanced Engineering
Nuclear South West
Nuclear South West is the nuclear cluster for the South West of England. The South West is set to become a nuclear hub in the next two decades, with 15 projects worth £50 billion to our economy.
They provide a platform for businesses to understand and take advantage of new opportunities.
Maritime UK South West
South Coast Marine Cluster and Cornwall Marine Network joined Maritime UK in order to jointly represent the South West of England as Maritime UK South West. The two organisations are regional members of Maritime UK and share a seat on the Maritime UK National Council.
Cornwall Marine Network works to improve the economic prosperity of businesses in Cornwall’s marine sector.
The South Coast Marine Cluster is a partnership of industry, academic and public sector, set up to champion and grow the South Coast maritime industries as the premier destination for investment, innovation and growth.