SMEs & supply chain - Amplifying SME voices, driving policy change
The Policy Centre brings SMEs in engineering and manufacturing together, ensuring their voices are heard, understood, and acted upon. We provide insight, advocacy, and guidance to help businesses navigate the changing policy landscape.
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What we deliver
We ensure that SME voices in engineering and manufacturing are not only heard but acted upon.
Through surveys, consultations, and research, we gather evidence and insights from SMEs and supply chain organisations that help shape policy, close skills gaps, boost productivity, and drive sector growth.
We give SMEs opportunities to influence decision-makers through direct engagement, advocacy and campaigns. We provide clear guidance on navigating new policies and keep you updated on how your input shapes tangible outcomes.
How we deliver it
Through our engagement and advocacy work, we create meaningful opportunities for SMEs to share their experiences and shape the future of the sector. To ensure SMEs have a real voice and influence in shaping policy, we:
- Connect SMEs and supply chain organisations with peer groups at roundtables to share challenges and gain sector insights
- Host consultations and policy recommendations for businesses to provide evidence and share their input
- Share policy briefings that contain clear guidance to help SMEs and the supply chain navigate complex policy change
- Create focused insight reports, which showcase how wider sector trends impact them
- Connect businesses directly with policymakers at events and roundtables
- Advocate and campaign to influence change
- Demonstrate impact, so businesses can see how their input shapes policy and contributes to sector outcomes.
“For over 30 years, the needs of UK manufacturing SMEs have not been heard by the Government, and as a result, we have a skills system that doesn’t serve us, a support system that doesn’t sustain us, and a regulatory environment that stifles our potential. We deserve a voice willing to challenge what was, create what can be, and really drive positive change for us, our people and our businesses.”
Andrea Wilson
Director at Hone-All Precision
SME Snapshot Report
We developed the SME Snapshot Report to help policymakers, industry bodies, and investors better understand the pressures SMEs face, and what part they can play in driving the UK's next chapter of growth. Download the report to explore the data, and sign up to be part of the January edition.
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