Make UK

Stand: D29

Mission: Forging a powerful future for UK manufacturing

Vision: Together, we can build a strong and sustainable future for the UK’s manufacturing industry, developing next-generation skills, and delivering growth and innovation.

Let’s Make things better.

Our Story: We are here to be a powerful voice for manufacturers and to champion growth and innovation. Through our campaigning, sector expertise, leading business services, apprenticeship training and extensive network, we’ve been supporting companies from around the UK of all sizes for 130 years. We help everyone from fearless start-ups to industry titans to thrive and build for the future. We provide deep expertise in the areas that matter to our industry and bring together a collaborative network of members in regional and national communities.

Our Expert Support Services

  • Skills & Apprentices: We are passionate about building the next generation, and we provide world-class apprentice training and skills development at our Technology Hub in Aston, Birmingham.
  • Policy and campaigns: Our policy and campaigning teams are a powerful force in Westminster and beyond, pushing for – and winning – government policies that fuel the growth of the industry.
  • Employment law and HR: Our expert team of 70 employment lawyers and HR professionals is trusted by more than 2,500 UK manufacturers and businesses to deliver customer-focussed support through a comprehensive blend of advice, training and development, consultancy and HR services. Through our specialist Employment Law and HR group, Make UK offers deep knowledge and understanding of the manufacturing sector, while our team at Bhayani Law delivers tailored services to start-ups, SME’s and established businesses across a variety of sectors.
  • Environment, health and safety: We help manufacturers keep their people safe and minimise their impact on the environment. Our accredited team is one of the UK’s best-known training and consultancy providers and supports employers as they strive to meet environment, health and safety standards.
  • Make Venues: Our venues are your venues. Make the most of our high-quality meeting spaces that cater for small teams to large conferences. Train, collaborate and get together in venues bursting with personality, with three locations around the country available at competitive prices.

Our Specialist Sector Expertise

As well as representing the broad interests of the wider manufacturing community, we have deep specialist sector knowledge from Steel and Defence to Energy.

  • Make UK Defence: Make UK Defence champions the UK’s innovative and diverse defence and security manufacturers, along with the world-class supply chain that underpins them. As part of Make UK, we represent the sector’s perspectives and challenges to the government, forge critical links across businesses of all sizes, and promote our dynamic industry.
  • Electrify Industry: Our specialist division brings together businesses and associations and provides support to help accelerate electrification across the industry. We campaign for competitive energy prices, reliable grid connections, and a sustainable future to help achieve our net zero ambitions.
  • UK Steel: UK Steel is the trade association for the country’s steel industry. We represent the sector’s interests to the government and promote our innovative, vibrant and dynamic industry to the public.



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