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Celebrating International Year of Cooperatives
When it comes to cooperatives or coops, many people just associate them with their local food store or funeral home. Wh...
Grants of up to £10k available for creative technology businesses
CreaTech Frontiers , a 5-year £7.2 million project led by Birmingham City University, has been launched (CreaTech = Cr...
Birmingham Royal Ballet join CreaTech Frontiers
Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) are the latest partner to join CreaTech Frontiers led by Birmingham City University (...
Introducing BCU Business Services: How to make the most of our expanded offer
Find out how your organisation can make the most of BCU's newly expanded Business Services support in our blog.
Meet BCU's 100th short course learner!
When Pam Virk-Paul signed up for Birmingham City University’s Digital Marketing Short Course in January 2025, she had n...
Seven finance tasks businesses can do themselves
Accountants play a very important role in ensuring that your business adheres to Government regulations. But did you kn...
CreaTech Frontiers - Birmingham Music Experience
Creative SME's in the West Midlands are being offered grants of up to £10,000 to bring innovative ideas to life, as par...
Growing together - BCU and BBG Partnership
Birmingham City University is a Strategic Learning Partner of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens (BBG) and our Vice-Cha...
The fastest growing job roles in the UK and Birmingham
At the start of 2025, Linkedin reported on the fastest growing job roles in Birmingham and the wider UK. In this blog, ...
The Advantage and Disadvantages of Being a Sole Trader
What does it take to become a successful Sole Trader? We review the pros and cons.
From BCU to a business in sustainable design
Molly Ratcliffe, a BCU alumna, won the Female Founders Pitching Competition last year for her business WasteProjekt and...
Building your business and financially planning: Unigenius
In this blog we caught up with Amir Iqbal, Director of Unigenius. An educational consultancy that helps students naviga...
Birmingham Based Business Supporting Graduate Talent
Brew, a Birmingham-based company, have regularly recruited graduates from BCU. In this blog we spoke with the company t...
Enterprise and family ties
We talk about the pressures of running a family business with Amy Giddings, Managing Director of Forte Cloth Internatio...
From Idea to Impact: Sharedish’s Journey since winning University competition
Since winning the University’s STEAM Hatchery competition in 2024, Sharedish has continued its success over the last si...
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