Salford based The Plantisserie were part of a delegation of entrepreneurs and small business owners celebrating Greater Manchester’s self-employed community at the 2nd Festival of Enterprise in Manchester city centre on Thursday.
The event demonstrated the potential for self-employed people to revolutionise the local economy and their own finances.
Attended by over 250 people, the event was a celebration of start-ups, self-employment and entrepreneurship, proudly championing Greater Manchester as the ultimate destination for launching and expanding your business.
EnterprisingYou, GM Business Growth Hub’s flagship support programme for the self-employed and startups in the region hosted the event.
“We’ve supported over 4000 entrepreneurs and small businesses across Greater Manchester since 2020 and the Festival of Enterprise was a fantastic celebration of this.
Yvonne Sampson, Head of Enterprise for GM Business Growth Hub
“I’ve been a small business owner myself, and it fills me with hope and ambition so see so many amazing people and businesses coming out to show what they can do. It was brilliant to meet and engage with them and to hear all about why they set up their businesses and how passionate they are.
“Self-employed people make up 10% of the UK workforce, but it can feel very lonely. Today was an excellent way to bring people together, connect and celebrate.”
The Plantisserie exhibited at the event alongside other local businesses in a marketplace at New Century on Thursday. They joined other small businesses alongside larger Greater Manchester success stories like tech unicorn Matillion and music platform GigPig, as well as global giant Microsoft.
The Plantisserie is a Vegan Micro-Bakery in Salford. Charlotte Lock, The Founder of The Plantisserie spent many years working as a professional Pastry Chef & Baker in the hospitality industry before turning her hand to her own project in Autumn 2022.
The Founder Charlotte Lock, explains:
“The Plantisserie aims to bring high quality, unique and delicious baked goods to events, businesses and to your home.
Sustainability is at the core of my business ethos, I am dedicated to reducing waste, using locally sourced, organic ingredients and eco-friendly packaging. “
“Through the GM Business Growth Hub I have been able to join the EnterprisingYou program, not only has this helped me access invaluable resources and help me build skills necessary to running my own business but it has also been a great way to network and build connections. In turn, this has helped me grow my business. The Festival was also a great networking opportunity and a source of inspiration!”
GM Business Growth Hub and EnterprisingYou offer fully funded support to businesses across Greater Manchester. Start your self-employed journey here – support self-employment – businessgrowthhub
About GM Business Growth Hub
GM Business Growth Hub, part of The Growth Company, helps businesses at all stages of their growth journey with a broad range of services delivered by its experts, as well as public and private sector partners. These services include one-to-one and peer-to-peer business support, events, specialist programmes and funding.
GM Business Growth Hub is a community of specialists with a passion for helping businesses across Greater Manchester to realise their full potential.
Whatever your business is, GM Business Growth Hub can help. They work hand-in-hand at every stage of a business’s growth journey. Whatever the need, GM Business Growth Hub has the right support to succeed.
GM Business Growth Hub is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
About the Growth Company
The Growth Company is an award-winning social enterprise with a 30-year history of enabling growth, creating jobs, and improving lives.
They help people and businesses across the UK to develop, grow and succeed through a range of employment, skills and business support services.
Their combined offer provides unrivalled insight, which means they are uniquely placed to help the places they work with to shape and deliver the best services to meet local priorities.
The Growth Company delivers profit with purpose and has been awarded a Gold Mark for its commitment to social value and impact.
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About UK Shared Prosperity Fund
GM Business Growth Hub received £7.5m of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus
This project has been made possible thanks to Greater Manchester Combined Authority securing funding to deliver UKSPF projects, which forms part of the Government’s wider Levelling Up agenda.
