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BruntwoodProfile date: 2025-09-21 Bruntwood Group and Bruntwood SciTech
Bruntwood is a family-owned commercial property and development company based in Manchester, United Kingdom. Founded in 1976, the company operates with a vision focused on creating thriving cities by developing and managing exceptional workspaces and supporting business growth across the UK's key regional economies.
The company's approach goes beyond simply providing physical space; it centers on building vibrant, supportive communities and ecosystems. Bruntwood operates through two primary business entities to serve distinct markets: Bruntwood Works and Bruntwood SciTech. The Bruntwood Group owns and manages a portfolio of over 100 properties across major UK cities, including Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham, with expansions into strategic locations like Oxford, Cambridge, and Glasgow.
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1. Bruntwood Works: Commercial Property and Workspace Solutions
Bruntwood Works is the division responsible for blending work and lifestyle within office, retail, and coworking space in town and city centre locations. It focuses on flexibility, design, and employee wellbeing.
Products and Spaces
Bruntwood Works offers a wide range of flexible space solutions designed to accommodate businesses of all sizes, from freelancers to large corporate headquarters:
- Leased Offices: Traditional office space available on commercial leases, often featuring bespoke design and management services tailored to a client's brand and culture.
- Serviced Offices: Fully furnished and managed office spaces offering maximum flexibility with simple, all-inclusive pay-by-desk rates and shorter contracts (e.g., from six months).
- Coworking Space: Flexible memberships and dedicated desk options in shared working environments across Bruntwood locations, providing opportunities for networking and collaboration. Options include:
- Hot Desking/Pay-as-you-go: Ideal for freelancers and remote workers.
- Shared and Dedicated Desks: Permanent space within a shared office environment.
- Meeting & Event Rooms: Bookable spaces equipped with modern AV equipment for meetings, conferences, and large-scale corporate events.
- Retail Space: Commercial units within their developments for shops, leisure, and food & beverage operators, contributing to the cultural vibrancy of their buildings.
- Virtual Offices: Services providing a professional mailing address, telephone answering, and reception support without requiring a physical office presence.
Added Value and Wellbeing
Bruntwood Works integrates features focused on enhanced physical and mental wellbeing into its buildings, such as:
* Biophilic design (e.g., Bloc building).
* On-site amenities like gyms, fitness studios, cycle storage, and health programmes.
* Community and networking events for customers.
2. Bruntwood SciTech: Science, Technology, and Innovation Ecosystems
Bruntwood SciTech is a 50:50 joint venture between Bruntwood and Legal & General Capital (with the Greater Manchester Pension Fund as a key investor). It is the UK's largest property portfolio dedicated to the growth of the nation's innovation economy, specifically serving the science, technology, and life sciences sectors.
Specialised Spaces and Infrastructure
The focus of Bruntwood SciTech is providing environments where high-growth, innovation-led businesses can form, scale, and grow within specialist campus locations.
- Lab Space (Specialist Facilities): Offering a range of high-specification laboratory options to suit every stage of a business?s growth, from dedicated workstations in co-working labs to fully fitted-out, state-of-the-art labs with various containment levels (e.g., BSL-1, BSL-2, BSL-3 capability).
- Specialised Office Space: Providing flexible office environments strategically co-located with lab facilities to foster collaboration between scientific and commercial teams.
- Campus Locations: Developing and operating large innovation districts and campuses deeply rooted in city ecosystems, such as Manchester Science Park, Alderley Park, Circle Square, Citylabs, and Innovation Birmingham. These locations often involve partnerships with local universities and NHS Trusts.
Ecosystem and Business Support Services
The key differentiator for Bruntwood SciTech is the specialized business support and ecosystem access it provides to its customers:
- Access to Capital/Investment: Connecting start-ups and scaling businesses with a network of investors (public and private capital) across equity, debt, and grant funding (e.g., the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Life Science Fund). They also provide support to help businesses become pitch-ready.
- Access to Talent and Skills: Leveraging deep partnerships with universities (e.g., The University of Manchester) and skills providers to help businesses recruit highly-skilled talent, including graduates and apprentices, in tech and life sciences.
- Access to Networks and Partners: Providing unrivalled connections to academic, clinical, and public partners, including the NHS, medical schools, hospital trusts, and professional services, enabling customers to gain crucial access to research, product development opportunities, and new markets.
- Incubator and Accelerator Programmes: Running dedicated business support programmes to help innovation companies move from ideation to commercialization.
- Science Services: Offering world-class, centrally managed research facilities and services, often on a flexible, pay-as-you-go basis, which can include glass wash, sterilization services, waste management, and logistics support essential for lab-based companies.
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