StartUp Britain is a national campaign by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, harnessing the expertise and passion of Britain’s leading businesspeople to unleash entrepreneurship across the UK. The campaign is run by the Centre for Entrepreneurs think tank and supported by Sage and Natwest.
Founded by eight entrepreneurs and launched in March 2011 by the Prime Minister, StartUp Britain is completely private sector funded, and was launched in response to the government’s call for an ‘enterprise led’ recovery.
The statistics relate to 2014 the they are the latest statistics available. West Midlands has performed well with Birmingham top of this entrepreneurial league with a record of 14,152 new companies a figure which is much higher than Manchester who are second with 8,172 new companies registered.
Locally following Birmingham is Coventry with 3,325; Wolverhampton with 1844;Dudley with1801;Shropshire 1603;Walsall with 1576;Solihull with1566;Lichfield with1030;Telford 781;Stafford with 671;
I am pleased to see that Wolverhampton is seen very much as a hot-spot for start up business and for entrepreneurs who want to create jobs and prosperity. We are as always keen to see growth and opportunity.
