{"id":7339,"date":"2025-11-28T11:27:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:27:51","slug":"university-of-manchester-partners-with-natwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/university-of-manchester-partners-with-natwest\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Manchester partners with NatWest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.russellgroup.ac.uk\/our-universities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russell Group<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The University of Manchester is one of four to partner with NatWest Bank in a collaboration designed to strengthen the UK\u2019s innovation and start-up ecosystem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With aims to drive growth, business productivity and create high-value jobs across the country, universities of Manchester, Brighton and York will provide targeted support for businesses in their early stages. Support will be through various student entrepreneurs and university-spin outs expanding the partnership between the bank and these selected universities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Universities such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The University of Mancheste<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">r have become a key focus in the government\u2019s industrial strategy, recognising that innovation-centered businesses have a significant role to play in boosting economic growth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robert Begbie, CEO, commercial and institutional banking, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natwest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NatWest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Group, said:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur Accelerator community has always been about empowering entrepreneurs to scale and succeed. By partnering with leading universities and surpassing our 2025 ambition, we\u2019re showing how collaboration can drive sustainable growth across every region of the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Group The University of Manchester is one of four to partner with NatWest Bank in a collaboration designed to strengthen the UK\u2019s innovation and start-up ecosystem.\u00a0 With aims to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7340,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions\/7340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}