Service Description

The Stockport Business Incubator Incubator is a key part of Houldsworth Village. The Houldsworth area once played a vital part in Stockport and Manchester and was home to a number of cotton spinning mills. That original industry has now gone but the architectural legacy remains to provide a strong vision to rebuild a thriving area for modern time’s whilst preserving the historic legacy.  A number of these mills have been turned into other economic and residential uses and the area is fast gaining the reputation as a key employment site for new and fast growing businesses in knowledge and creative sectors.

The Houldsworth Village is a programme of action and activities, to create a sustainable and growing cluster of knowledge and creative based companies. This will be a key node in the Greater Manchester knowledge economy and in the development of the

Knowledge Capital concept.  Links to world class research and development facilities and activities and highly skilled people will attract investment in new technology, high value added sectors of the economy and local people and companies will be given the skills, tools and support infrastructure to develop new business ideas.

The incubation programme is supported by a number of organisations including Stockport Council, University of Manchester Incubator Company Ltd (UMIC) and Broadstone Mill Ltd. Other organizations providing support include Workspace Centres Ltd, The Winning Business Academy®, Chamberlink, MiDAS, Manchester Knowledge Capital, Manchester Digital Development Agency, Manchester Digital and Business Link.