Post by Laura Hickman-Sparkes

🐝 🤞🏻 It’s coming home 🤞🏻 🐝 … “growth can only be nurtured from the bottom up … It comes from placing universities at the heart of local economies” “I will back our scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs and creatives” When Andy Burnham opened the Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport along side the brilliant Bev Craig, he called us the missing piece of the jigsaw in sport in the city. Collaboration is critical to success and university’s are well placed connect people, to drive innovation and to support good growth. ‘Number 10 North’ to drive place based collaboration. #hope