As we start to see lockdown restrictions gradually lifted in the UK, much debate is being had about the big return to the office.
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Allia is a not-for-profit organisation that supports businesses - through flexible workspace, social finance and free business support - so that they can grow and create positive impact, on their communities and on the planet.
Allia amplifies impact for people, place and planet
Allia is an independent not for profit with a social mission, dedicated to helping impact organisations and initiatives to grow through flexible workspace, business support and social finance.
Allia has been at the forefront of impact since its foundation in 1999 finding innovative ways to tackle unemployment, enterprise and social housing with pioneering products. Our work has helped 1000s of people into work, out of debt and to establish enterprises driven by more than profit. But we can’t create change alone.
Our world needs effective solutions and new thinking to solve the most pressing global and local challenges. Organisations and individuals that aim to make positive change and address these challenges – impact ventures and impact entrepreneurs – can transform peoples’ lives. Allia recognises that they need the right kind of support and we are dedicated to helping them set up, grow and develop. We call it amplifying impact.
- Inspiring workspaces at our Future Business Centres – flexible and supportive innovation communities
- Business support through a range of incubator and accelerator programmes, helping businesses and individuals to innovate, start up, grow and scale
- Innovative social finance through Allia C&C - innovative investment and social finance to help charitable organisations and responsible corporates deliver greater impact
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International Women’s Day (IWD) is always marked at Allia.

Do you have an exciting business idea but don’t know where to start?

Do you work for a social enterprise, charity or climate impact company? Allia Future Business Centre is excited to deliver two upcoming events for social enterprises of Cambridge.

Allia Future Business Centres' programme manager, Alex Potter, highlights businesses that have 'pivoted, innovated, and fought tooth-and-nail to stay afloat this last year.'

Allia Future Business Centres has been awarded funding from the European Regional Development Fund to support hundreds of local businesses across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough through a range of free training, advice and support programmes.

Could you use free business support to grow your start-up? Is your business or solution focused on creating social or environmental change - and do you need help to create more impact?

It’s that time of year when you’ll already have started to think about festive gifts – maybe you’re still at the list-making stage, or have you got most of your presents wrapped and ready? Whatever stage you’re at, we’re sure you’ll find something interesting in our festive gift guide with a difference.

To help small businesses stay connected while their teams continue to work from home, Allia is offering ‘part-time private offices’, where your team gets its own dedicated workspace - with all the usual benefits of a standard office, but for as little as one day a week. The initiative will allow you all to work from home or remotely for the rest of the week, but have a regular day or two ...

Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, millions of us spent our working days in an office – it was our norm, with team meetings, in-jokes and water-cooler moments creating our culture. Then, with the advent of lockdown forcing many to work from home, this all changed.

Allia has joined forces with DIF Capital Partners, and is looking to support three ambitious start-ups who are passionate about solving the most pressing social and environmental challenges that we face today.

Recovery. A word we’re hearing a lot right now, as we start to emerge tentatively from the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. For some, the recovery will be a physical one, to gradually get well again after falling ill with the virus that has affected millions of people the world over.

Allia leads innovative housing project providing homeless people with supported housing in Cambridge
Allia works with Jimmy’s and New Meaning Foundation to design, build and install much needed community housing in the city.
Allia Future Business Centre’s story has been captured through short animations created in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University’s School of Art.

Seven organisations across Cambridgeshire, including Arts & Minds and Blue Smile (who are tenants at Allia’s Future Business Centre in Central Cambridge), have joined forces to form a new programme, Fullscope, to support the mental wellbeing of children and young people in the region.

Tech for good and social ventures addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals to be given no-cost individual packages of support to help them create greater impact

Last week was Volunteer’s Week – and Allia Future Business Centre’s marketing team celebrated by spending the day at Cambridge Cyrenians allotment project.

Allia Future Business Centre is excited to partner with Cambridge Independent for its Science and Technology Awards again this year and to sponsor the newly launched 'Tech for Good' category.

The search is on for 20 of the UK’s most inspiring start-ups tackling the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Cambridge Applied Research (CAR) will host >sudo : city, a Smart City hackathon, in partnership with Alchera Technologies at the Allia Future Business Centre on 11-12 May. After the success of the >sudo : sequence hackathon in October 2018, CAR is organising the next in the series of >sudo hackathons.
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Come learn from Tech for Good/Impact Investors as they hear 15 pitches from the Allia Impact Accelerator Autumn 2020 Cohort.

Innovation Lab Technician
Innovation Lab Technician – 18-month fixed term contract (With possibility of extension)
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