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From cutting-edge innovation showcases to summer celebrations – July was a busy month of community events and activities at Sister! Here’s a snapshot of what we got up to ⬇️ 🎤 Black Creative Trailblazers Open Mic Night Our Culture Partner, Black Creative Trailblazers, hosted their monthly Open Mic Night, celebrating the talent of local musicians, poets and artisans. Join us for the next one on Friday 8 August! 💡 Showcase: Innovations In Sight Impairments Our Innovation Exhibitors VIMA and FLAG-Me CIC hosted an insightful evening exploring the latest technology improving accessibility and quality of life for people with visual impairments. ☀️ Summer Mixer  We loved bringing our Renold and Sustainable Ventures community together for our Summer Mixer. With live music, team games, creative activities, and delicious food – this was a fantastic opportunity to come together and celebrate summer at Sister. 🌱 Sustainable Food with pro-manchester pro-manchester hosted an event focused on key areas of food sustainability, exploring everything from the importance of tackling food waste to avoiding greenwashing – with a keynote from Open Kitchen. ✨ Kulture Fest 2025  Organised by Kulture Fest, we were thrilled to host this year’s festival at Renold – it was an honour to support and celebrate their community’s diverse culture and creativity through music, dance, art, and food! 🙌 Brunswick Community Fun Day Local families and residents joined us to decorate pots and plant seeds at Gartside Gardens for the Brunswick Tenants and Residents Association (BTARA) Community Fun Day. 👥 Regeneration Brainery Tour We welcomed young people from Regeneration Brainery and Bruntwood’s Insight Programme for a tour of Sister and the Renold Innovation Hub – exploring what it's like to work at Sister and potential career paths in development and regeneration. Thank you to everyone who joined us – check out the highlights 🎬⬇️ #SisterManchester #ManchesterCommunity #ManchesterEvents

We loved bringing everyone together for our Summer Mixer! 🌸 With live music, team games, creative activities, and delicious food – this was a fantastic opportunity for our Renold and Sustainable Ventures community to come together to: 🤝 Network and make new connections ☀️ Unwind outside in the sunshine 🙌 Celebrate summer at Sister Huge thanks to Ancoats Tacos for cooking us up some tasty Mexican bowls and to Few Scoops Ice Cream for providing incredible desserts – we really appreciate you coming along to provide refreshments for our teams. Thank you to all the colleagues, collaborators and partners who joined us 👏 Check out some of the photos! 📸 #SisterManchester #ManchesterInnovation #InnovationDistrict

On recent visit to the Sister innovation hub, I spoke with James Byrne to discuss the current state of play for climate tech start ups, and how an ecosystem approach is key for these companies to scale. Visit the UKTN website to read our exclusive coverage!

Climate tech holds a unique place within the UK’s wider tech industry. It is one of the best-funded subsectors in UK tech, but also one of the toughest areas for firms to scale. Supporting businesses through to maturity is not simply a way to boost the country’s finances, but an existential imperative. Read more from our exclusive interview with Sustainable Ventures' James Byrne by following the link below. https://lnkd.in/eGraSXiR #UKtech

TropiConnect turns One 🥳🤩 All Glory to God❤️ What started as an idea has grown into a bold mission: (here a few highlights) - All started with winning the VFA (UK’s leading Uni start-up competition) - Launched several successful pilots with leading buyers and cooperatives in East Africa representing 200,000+ small holder farmers - Presented TropiConnect at leading events like UNIDO World without Hunger Conference and GITEX Europe (leading tech conference in Europe) - Held high level talks with Agri-tech leaders and government institutions like Ministry of Trade and Co-operatives in Uganda - Joined lovely ecosystems like Sister Manchester, Innovate UK etc But like any real journey, it came with lessons: 💡 Vision is vital, but execution is everything 💡 Real change takes trust, patience, and persistence 💡 Listening to your consumers and putting them at the cetre is the key to building the right platform As we celebrate this milestone, we look ahead with even greater purpose. A little secret between me and you 😉our official launch to the public is around the corner and can’t wait to share that with you, STAY TUNED🚀😌 Huge shout out to everyone who has really been a part of us in this journey, Grateful 🙏🏽 PS: More about our past events and what to expect in the future to come soon. As always: WE JUST GETTING STARTED!!! #launch#sustainability#FarmToWorld#TropiConnect#Grateful

🔦 Innovation Spotlight! Check out the interview with two of our fantastic exhibitors: FLAG-Me CIC and VIMA. Both of these pioneering organisations are developing cutting-edge technology to help support people living with vision impairments and improve their safety. Watch now on YouTube 📺 https://lnkd.in/eCKY4hCc #SisterManchester #InnovationSpotlight

Ace presentation by Corin Bell at Sister Manchester. Food sustainability should be on all of our minds. Thanks for organising pro-manchester and thanks to Richard Walker from Marketing Manchester for establishing the Green Hospitality Network and continually working on getting sustainability onto all of our radars.

A great event hosted at the Renold Innovation Hub yesterday that brought together a community of businesses and entrepreneurs passionate about building more sustainable food futures 🌍 Thanks Bee Net Zero for the insightful wrap up 💡 pro-manchester #Innovation #SustainableFood

Absolutely brilliant talk on sustainable food from Corin Bell at Open Kitchen to kick off the Green Hospitality Network. Huge thanks to pro-manchester for supporting the organising, and Sister for hosting. For updates on future events, join the Green Hospitality Network in the comments

Straight back into a Pro Manchester event yesterday at Sister in the heart of Manchester. An insightful event presented by Corin Bell Founder of Open Kitchen food and drink social enterprise. Corin has worked for 15 years in food sustainability, ethical supply chains, food waste reduction, and community food. It was so interesting to learn more about this subject and network with some other great members and businesses from the City. I am looking forward to our Discover Stockport event tomorrow which features a tour of the town guided by Stockport Council Deputy Cheif Executive Paul Richards and learning more about the regeneration of the town, then a fantastic panel discussion lined up hosted by our CEO Sam Booth at Stockroom with open networking later on, the event is fully sold out and the first of our series of Stockport events coming this year. Next week sees another one, again fully subscribed and now waitlist only, more on that later! If you are looking to grow your network, your knowledge, share more about your business, be part of the largest engaged business community in Manchester then get in touch I am happy to share more info about pro-manchester We are Growing! Get Involved. #networking #stockport #regeneration #businesscommunity #manchester