The services we offer at Solent Partners
Solent Partners offers a range of services designed to boost productivity and competitiveness, empower businesses and individuals, and deliver the vision of the region’s long term economic strategy – Solent 2050.
Business and Skills Support
Our Business & Skills Support team provides bespoke business support and business skills programmes across the Solent region. Browse through the range of programmes, events and initiatives available to find opportunities to boost your business or business skills.
Growth Hub Services
Solent Partners provides Growth Hub services for businesses operating in Southampton, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. You can speak to one of our business advisers directly or find further information on a range of national and regional initiatives to help your business thrive.
Strategic Partnerships
Over the past decade, our team has established a reputation for successfully delivering economic growth. Through our work securing and managing projects and programmes across the Solent valued at close to a quarter of a billion pounds, alongside unlocking key policy levers for the benefit of partners across the area, we have developed an in-depth understanding of the Solent economy and strong relationships across the public, private and academic sectors.
Trade & Investment
With a population of more than 1.25 million and over 42,000 businesses, the Solent area is an internationally-recognised key economic hub anchored around the Isle of Wight, the two cities of Portsmouth and Southampton, the New Forest, the M27 corridor and the Solent waterway.
Our position also means we are the UK’s gateway to European and global markets, with direct highway and rail links to London and the strategic national corridor, and international connections through our airport and two ports, which lie just 20 miles from the world’s busiest shipping route from Shanghai to Rotterdam.
Our companies
The Solent Cluster represents an incredible opportunity for local communities, the region, and the UK, and can effect real change in sustainable energy production and consumption.