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Invest in Surrey

With a fantastic location, highly-skilled workforce, and innovative and collaborative business ecosystem, Surrey is a top business location of choice.

Invest in Surrey is a dedicated resource to help you relocate your business to Surrey.

Get in touch to find out how we can support your business.

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Welcome to Surrey: one of the UKโ€™s leading regional economies

A testament to its exceptional qualities as a place to live, work, and visit, Surrey boasts a long and successful history of attracting international businesses while nurturing some of the UKโ€™s most successful and innovative companies.

Join us on this journey by contacting our Invest in Surrey service.

We offer free, confidential and bespoke services to assist companies intending to relocate to or invest in our region.

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Key stats

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110,000+
businesses

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3 world class
universities

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ยฃ50bn Gross
Value Added (GVA)

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2nd UK Vitality
Index (2024)

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4th most
innovative region

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54% of residents educated to degree level or higher

Why Invest in Surrey?

Rural yet connected

In Surrey you are uniquely able to be simultaneously a stones throw from London whilst being surrounded by some of Englandโ€™s most wonderful countryside. Enjoy the best of both worlds in Surrey.

First class schools & universities

Surrey is home to first class schools and world class universities that provide R&D support to innovative businesses. Surrey has exceptional talent and a well-qualified, highly skilled workforce.

Businesses succeed in Surrey

In Surrey businesses do well, we account for 14% of all business births in the South East and our businesses have a close to 90% business survival rate. Itโ€™s clear we have all the ingredients for your business to be successful in Surrey.

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How Invest in Surrey can help your business

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Relocation and expansion

Whether youโ€™re looking to move to Surrey or expand your current enterprise, our team is on hand to help. Our commercial property finder showcases all the properties available in Surrey and at any one time, Surrey has several key major developments in situ which can allow for pre-let discussions.

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Business case

We can provide local market intelligence to help you build a business case that demonstrates why Surrey is the ideal location for your company. We have access to a range of local research and market intelligence including local industry and sector profiling.

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Talent and recruitment

We can support your company’s recruitment programme to help you recruit the right members of staff. If your business wants to recruit apprentices, we can help here too.

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Connections

No-one knows Surrey better than we do. Each industry sector has a wealth of associations, networks and events where you can meet organisations to share best practice, address industry-related issues and explore opportunities for innovation, collaboration and R&D

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Celebrate success

Weโ€™re dialled in to the region’s social media and press networks and have a growing active audience. Once you become a Surrey business, we want to share every success you have to our contacts.

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Confidential and bespoke

All of our services are complimentary, confidential and bespoke to your business. Support is available to both national and international organisations of all sizes that are considering relocating to or expanding in Surrey.

In good company

Surrey is home to thousands of businesses, including global corporates and household names. By relocating to our region, you’ll be in good company.

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