Business, professional and Financial Services
Networking
Barnsley is located within both the Leeds and Sheffield City Regions. Companies already investing in these areas include HSBC, Barclays, RBS, DLA Piper, Eversheds, Pinsent Masons, Ventura, KPMG, Ernst and Young, Deloitte and Price Waterhouse Coopers.
An excellent range of business networking organisations exist in Barnsley and the two City Regions, offering all the support and advice needed to set up and develop your business.
Research and Development
There are over two hundred BPFS university courses at both, Sheffield Universities (Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Sheffield), Leeds Universities (University of Leeds and Leeds Met University) and the University of Huddersfield ranging from Accountancy, Economics and Business to IT, Maths and Computing, helping to provide a significant pool of skilled expertise in the local area to recruit from.
Many of the local colleges and universities now offer tailored courses, working in conjunction with local businesses, to help businesses develop the expertise they need. In the Yorkshire and Humber region over 44% of graduates remained in the area as their first destination of employment providing a pool of highly trained expertise
Properties
Barnsley has a good selection of Grade A quality office schemes available including a number of established business parks located at Junctions 36 & 37 of the M1 motorway, together with recent high quality developments in the town centre including Queens Court and the Gateway Plaza developments. Office occupiers in Barnsley benefit from excellent access to the UK motorway network and substantial property savings in comparison to city locations of Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester.