Finding the space for your new business to flourish

Yorkshire Forward has invested in incubation centres designed to encourage new and fledgling businesses to grow successfully.

These are currently geared towards three of our priority sectors:

  • Advanced engineering and materials
  • Digital and new media
  • Environmental technologies.

Incubation centres offer specialist on-site business support services. Additionally, being located alongside similar businesses creates a supportive, nurturing environment with opportunities for networking and collaboration.

Yorkshire Forward also has strategic sector champions for these priority sectors. Just click to contact them and find out how they can help

Barnsley Digital Media Centre (BDMC)

£9.7m of Yorkshire Forward and Objective 1 funding has been invested in the development of the Barnsley Digital Media Centre an innovative and vibrant business space designed to help creative, media and digital businesses to grow. The centre offers 72 state-of-the-art incubator units, conference and meeting facilities and a technology showcase. It also offers a range of tailored business support and mentoring services.

The Environmental Energy Technology Centre (EETC)

An £8.7m incubator building has been funded by Yorkshire Forward to support businesses entering the emerging low-carbon-technologies market. The EETC  supports more than 30 businesses engaged in the development of products and services which will aid the transition to a low-carbon economy in our region. Adjacent to the Innovation Technology Centre on the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) at Rotherham. Businesses based here are able to access the expertise behind cutting-edge manufacturing techniques and other technologies within the AMP. The centre further empowers the Yorkshire & Humber region to compete for a strong share of the estimated £400bm global environmental technologies market, of which £30bn is expected to be centred in the UK.

The Advanced Manufacturing Park Technology Centre 

Based at AMP, Rotherham, the Advanced Manufacturing Park Technology Centre offers 27,000 sq ft of flexible office/workshop space to some of the country’s most innovative and forward-thinking entrepreneurs and companies in advanced engineering, manufacturing and materials organisations. At the heart of Yorkshire’s AEM cluster, the AMP Technology Centre  provides early-stage premises and support services for fledgling and growing entrepreneurial businesses and university spin-offs, as well as subsidiaries or R&D operations of existing companies. Within the cutting-edge, environmentally efficient building are a café and chill-out area with WiFi, a conference centre, and access to professional support services, a receptionist service, and facilities management services.

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