Business partnerships and support

Welcome to your touch point to access our services for business and to partner with the University of West London.

Collaborate and grow as we shape what universities do to serve the needs of businesses. Whether you’re a blue chip, SME, Start-Up or charity we provide a broad range of services to help your business thrive.

Our mission is to be an industry partner of choice, supporting the modern needs of business and the economy through access to our services and talented students.

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Find out more about:

Degree apprenticeships
Recruit students and graduates
Events and venue hire
Consultancy partnerships and project funding
Entrepreneurship: Start-up business support
Professional development: Short courses and executive education
Research partnerships and intellectual property development
Community outreach and volunteering
Supporting the next generation

Degree apprenticeships

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At the University of West London, we deliver a broad range of rigorous, highly job-focused degree apprenticeships to add value to your organisation.

We will support you in the recruitment of your apprentice, meet regularly with you to monitor progress and to plan for the future. This helps to ensure the skills and knowledge they develop is of direct relevance to their role with you.

Recruit students and graduates

Here at UWL, we have a wealth of graduate talent ready and waiting to help you improve your business. Our recruitment services are ready at our London campus to help you recruit students and recruit graduates from a top modern London university.

We can help you advertise your job opportunities to UWL students and graduates, recruit a placement or internship student and welcome you to take part in our sector specific careers fairs.

Recruit our talent

Events and venue hire

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At UWL, we have a number of rooms and events hire spaces, including meeting rooms and lecture halls, training kitchens, performance spaces like Weston Hall and more.

With venue hire in Ealing, Brentford, Reading and Oxford, we have the business space available you need in locations across London and the South.

UWL also offer team building activities in London and our facilities include a professional-led Boeing 737 flight simulator.

Consultancy partnerships and project funding

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Fresh Minds for Business is a non-profit consultancy service, delivered by our students and supported by experienced consultants at the Claude Littner Business School. We offer our consultancy expertise to business and non-business clients from a wide range of industries and sectors.

Companies of all sizes can also gain access to expertise and facilities within the University of West London through our Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP). Our team is on hand to identify where we can help, and provide access to project funding and schemes.

Entrepreneurship: Start-up business support

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UWL's Westmont Enterprise Hub is an ideation, innovation and incubation centre based at the heart of the St Mary's campus. Backing brilliant business ideas and helping pre-startups grow, we welcome entrepreneurship from the University, or beyond, in the west London community. We partner ambitious entrepreneurs and start-up businesses with the investment, resources, experts and support needed to transform ideas into reality.

Professional development: Short courses and executive education

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UWL offers short courses in professional development and project management, as well as a range of MBA and Continuing Professional Development or CPD courses.

Short courses can help improve your professional career, boost specific skills in your employees and open up new pathways in your chosen field.

Research partnerships and intellectual property development

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Almost 80 percent of UWL research is rated as world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) in the latest Government Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment. By sharing our research and technology, and drawing on our close research partnerships with businesses and industry, we find answers to problems to improve our lives.

In addition, we frequently commercialise our intellectual property (IP) through partnerships with other businesses. We support businesses that have an interest in our IP available for commercialisation and offer market research to support intellectual property development.

Community outreach and volunteering

UWL's Outreach, Schools and Colleges team has years of experience working in universities, charities and schools. Through our community outreach initiatives, we aim to build strong partnerships in the community and within UWL itself.

The V Team offers a range of volunteering work and opportunities including external volunteer placements and project leader training.

Pyramid clubs are also run in individual schools, groups of schools or academy chains, and in voluntary organisations across the UK under a licence from the University of West London.

Supporting the next generation

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The Development & Alumni Relations team at UWL offer a range of initiatives for companies to demonstrate their commitment to higher education and in supporting the next generation.

Companies can financially support UWL students through establishing a scholarship and also share their expertise through our volunteering and mentoring programmes.

Find out how you can financially support our students on the UWL alumni website.