Allia Future Business Centres
Location Cambridge Future Business Centre Kings Hedges Road Cambridge CB4 2HY
Location Peterborough Future Business Centre Abax Stadium , London Road Peterborough PE2 8AN
Contact Details Contact : Caroline Hyde , Director of Workspace and Enterprise Support Tel : 0845 4562431 Email : caroline . hyde @ allia . org . uk Website : futurebusinesscentre . co . uk
Allia Future Business Centre Cambridge
Allia Future Business Centres provides space , mentoring , skill training and entrepreneurial inspiration for starts-up , early stage businesses and future business leaders who want to make a positive social and environmental impact .
Cambridge Located in the heart of Europe ’ s most successful entrepreneurial cluster and minutes from the Cambridge Science Park , St . John ’ s Innovation Centre and the Cambridge Business Park , the Future Business Centre Cambridge is a purpose-built low carbon building which was opened in November 2013 .
The Allia Future Business Centre Cambridge is a 35,000 sq . ft . state-ofthe art facility with :
• Co-working space
• Office suites and workshops from 1 person to 20 people , with flexible , start-up friendly terms
• Meeting rooms
• Conference facilities
• Café
• Virtual office
Peterborough Allia opened the Future Business Centre Peterborough in June 2015 . This is a brand new facility and houses and supports ventures in sectors including cleantech , agritech , smart cities , smart technology , and food processing as well as social ventures . The Peterborough Future Business Centre offers :
• Co-working space
• Office suites suitable for 1 person to 50 people ( with flexible , startup friendly terms )
• Meeting rooms
• Conference facilities
• Bistro
• Virtual office
Our Sector Strengths Our Allia Future Business Centres focus on supporting social and environmental ventures . We currently house businesses in a wide range
Allia Future Business Centre Peterborough
of sectors from energy and heat , printing technology , online platforms and tools , biopolymers , autonomous vehicles , printed electronics , smart technology / Internet of Things as well as conflict resolution , educational research and social initiatives working with hard to reach sectors of society .
Business Support An integral part of the Allia Future Business Centre is that we offer in-house business support services , both to our tenants as well as to our broader network at-large . These are led by our team of in-house business advisors who have extensive experience in social ventures and technology businesses and take the form of a range of activities , including :
• One-2-one business , management and strategic advice
• Free-to-attend business advice and networking events
• Mentoring , management training and development
Creating New Businesses Allia Future Business Centres help create sustainable businesses that positively impact people and the planet . This includes working with entrepreneurs and start-ups in the social , socialTech , cleantech and environmental , smart cities and Internet of Things , agritech , health & wellbeing sectors .
To enable this , we offer four programmes to support entrepreneurs :
• Pre-start ideation and validation programmes
• Start-up accelerator programme
• Incubators
• Prototyping and innovation lab
Over the last two years we have supported more than 300 ventures with business advice , contributed to the creation of 200 new jobs and been a home to more than 70 enterprises .
Entry onto these Allia programmes is highly sought-after and subject to an application process . In addition , we also collaborate with and host a number of private corporate incubator and intrapreneurship programmes .
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