East Midlands Chamber ( Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire) is the leading voice for business in the region of the East Midlands. With a growing membership base of 3,800 businesses, it is the second-largest chamber in the country. Members benefit from a wide range of business support services from lobbying and campaigning, helping businesses realise their international trading ambitions, showcasing and market making activities to workforce training. Apprenticeships and development. No other business support organisation can offer what is at the heart of Chamber activity – a passionate commitment to putting its Members first.

Building on 150 years of history, Stepnell has a notable list of customers with over 74% of our turnover from repeat business due to our proven ability to consistently exceed expectations on time, budget, cost, handover and aftercare. Stepnell is a family owned, private limited company, where a combination of hands-on management by our owners, talented teams, innovative thinking and high integrity, sets us apart from our peers. With a healthy balance sheet, a turnover of £120 million and a strong forward-order book, we are a financially robust company. We operate through a network of regional offices across central and southern England, which enables us to offer an integrated service that operates close to the local markets and our customers. Our committed teams have extensive knowledge and expertise across a range of markets that include the Healthcare, Leisure, Residential, Education, Commercial, Industrial and Civil Engineering sectors.

Energy for Business can support energy innovators and those who want to become more energy efficient by forging links between businesses and world-class academics, researchers and graduate talent in the energy field.

Delivered by the Energy Innovation and Collaboration team and funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) this low-carbon innovation project offers product research and development, business support and capital funding to SMEs in the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire region.