Join other senior leaders taking part in a practical management training course delivered by Canterbury Christ Church University.

Starting 6 October 2026

Join SME senior leaders taking part in a practical management training course delivered by Canterbury Christ Church University accredited by the Small Business Charter.

The Help to Grow: Management Course runs over 12 weeks and includes online and face-to-face sessions, 1-to-1 mentoring and peer networking. With just one session a week, it is designed to fit around existing work and personal commitments. You will finish the course ready to lead on the delivery of increased profitability, innovation and growth.

• Designed and delivered by industry experts, it’s full of practical, actionable learning that will help you lead and deliver change in your business.
• Business-focussed learning – position your business for success with modules covering vision, mission and values, employee engagement, strategy and innovation.
• Learn from your peers – share experiences and ideas while building a local network.
• Tailored plan for your business – work with an experienced mentor to tackle your business challenges and develop a tailored growth action plan.

This course is open to businesses that have been in operation for 12+ months and have 5-249 employees.

“For me it has been a professional journey and a personal one, as I’ve been able to ask a lot of questions, gain a lot of understanding about myself as a leader and to really understand the best ways I can manage people, my flaws certainly and ways to develop that.”

For more information, contact: htgmanagement@canterbury.ac.uk

or visit: canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/short-courses/help-to-grow-management-courses

Date: Monday 8 June 2026
Time: 12:00pm – 9:30pm
Location: Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1B 4DA
Price: Early bird tickets between £170 +VAT and £210 +VAT (Available until Friday, 17 April 2026)

Owned and organised by OBN​, BioSeed is a fast-paced, one-day pitching event where innovative early-stage life sciences companies seeking seed funding, showcase to and meet with an extensive audience of active life sciences investors.

BioSeed attendance is exclusively for:

• Early stage R&D companies seeking seed stage funding – all therapy and technological areas are welcome
• Technology Transfer teams from academic institutions seeking funding for their spin out companies
• Life sciences Investors looking for new funding opportunities
• A limited number of corporate and industry sponsors

Find out more

Carbon 6 Academy of Science is a pioneering new specialist sixth form, located at leading science and innovation campus Discovery Park. Benefiting from world-class lab facilities and industry connections, Carbon 6 provides the ideal learning environment for ambitious students who are passionate about a career in STEM or looking to study science at University.

Learn more about the facilities at our open day on Thursday 26th March, 6:00pm – 8:00pm:

Please register your interest ahead of attending by selecting the time required using the Book Now link below

Visit Website: https://discovery-park.co.uk/lp/carbon-6-academy-of-science/

This is a private event hosted by Mewburn Ellis. Invite only. If you think you would like to attend, please email info@discovery-park.co.uk.

Drop-in sessions with Dr Heather Ramsay to find out more about the NIHR BioResource

The NIHR BioResource is a unique and powerful resource for studying disease mechanisms and investigating the links between genes, the environment, health and disease, and enabling scientific discoveries. We have over 330,000 consented volunteers, from the general population and patients with common and rare diseases, who have donated a blood sample, granted access to their health records and genomic data, and are willing to be recalled to participate in academic and industry-led experimental medicine and clinical research studies. Recruitment is on a national and local level, with 18 local BioResource centres across England, including Cambridge.

Find out more and book a slot here.

The ultimate inter-schools competition

which is all about inspiring and engaging young minds in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM)! We’re on a mission to ignite your curiosity and creativity, and we want to see your amazing projects that showcase the best of STEM.

Whether you’ve built a robot, designed an app, conducted experiments or created something entirely unique, enter by 30th September 2025! The showcase STEM Fair will be hosted at the Discovery Park on Friday 17th October.

Find out more, book tickets, and enter your school here.

Wednesday 15th October 2025 18.00 – 20.00 London EC4A 3AG

This event is hosted by Abel + Imray.

Our Abel + Imray Investors + Innovators Meet Up series bring people together to start creating those connections through networking over informal drinks. Each event has an innovation theme to provide a focus to attract relevant investors and innovating businesses to be ‘in the room’.

The meet up is free to attend though places are limited, and places are restricted to 2 per organisation.

For more information and to get your tickets

This event is hosted by Growing Kent & Medway.

Meet exciting plant-based food and drink businesses and hear from the innovators and researchers making our horticultural food systems more sustainable.

The event will include:

• Talks from local policy makers and funders
• Presentations on cutting-edge science and technology developments in food and farming
• Taste new food and drink products developed with support from Growing Kent & Medway
• Network with other Growing Kent & Medway members; businesses, technical research specialists, funders, and business support experts
• Tours of Niab’s research facilities, including the glasshouses, Wine Innovation Centre, research vineyards and growth rooms
• Plus, hear about the next phase of place-based innovation for our sector.

The morning will feature talks and presentations at the Orchards Event Centre, East Malling, before we move to the Mumford Building for networking, lunch and demonstration displays.

Lunch will be provided on the terrace overlooking the Niab vineyards.

Limited places are available for businesses to display their products during the networking session. Please email contact@growingkentandmedway.com if you would like to request a table.

We hope you can join us for this free event to celebrate the brilliant innovation taking place across our supply chains.

Find more information here.