People
Our extensive network of highly skilled people and innovative organisations make our region the obvious choice for industry leaders.
Fourteen of the world’s fifteen largest aerospace companies have a presence in the region³, employing tens and thousands of people and drawing on a world class talent pipeline.
We are proud to work alongside business leaders and partners to support our regions’ clean growth ambitions.
Invest
Gravity is the catalyst for the UK’s clean growth revolution, drawing on region’s talents and track record of success. We’re passionate about using Gravity to rapidly respond to the big challenges facing us today: on climate action, connectivity and social value. We are helping the UK grasp this opportunity by providing a sustainable platform, infrastructure and an ideal location in the UK to host international investment.
Martin Bellamy
Chairman, Gravity
Collaborating with
We are a region of great thinkers, and doers, with a track record of innovation and delivery that has improved people’s lives. We are game-changers, operating at the cutting edge, accelerating the next phase of the green industrial revolution.
Claire Pearce
Director of Planning & Economic Development
We seek to provide our learners with new opportunities. We embrace the latest technologies, teaching methods and industry developments to ensure learners are well placed to seize the many exciting opportunities that regional regeneration brings. This approach has resulted in the creation of a partnership with Gravity. Through this partnership, we are able to leverage these opportunities to benefit our students and the wider community.
Matt Tudor
Bridgwater & Taunton College
Our region is perfectly placed as a world-class hub for global trade and investment with an unsurpassed quality of life and work. Based in one of the most economically successful regions in the world’s fifth-largest economy, and a UK hot spot for talent and high growth business, the SW has access to the people, expertise and delivery capacity to already be powering the next industrial revolution. It’s a region attracting a new wave of major investment into advanced manufacturing, clean growth and other key sectors, which are attracted by it having some of the best people, a world-class innovation and knowledge cluster and simply being a place of choice for businesses from the UK and beyond to operate and succeed
James Durie
Chief Executive, Chambers of Commerce & Initiative at Business West
