Hive launches as Community Interest Company

Celebrity fashion designer Patrick Grant will attend an event where Hive, Blackburn with Darwen’s business leaders’ network, will launch as a Community Interest Company.

The event takes place on October 8 and you can register your interest here.

Khalid Saifullah, director of Blackburn manufacturing firm Star Tissue and Chair of the Hive network, said: “We’ve had recognition of Hive’s role in improving the local business environment following our commendation at the 2014 Enterprising Britain Awards; we’ve hosted leading figures from within industry and we’ve celebrated the very best of business via the inaugural Hive Business Awards held at Blackburn Cathedral earlier this year. Working together, the Hive CIC now provides the platform for a sustainable business model and we hope that as many businesses as possible are able to join us at the launch to be inspired and find out more”.

Despite a new structure, the aims of Hive remain the same and are underpinned by the town’s famous motto of arte at labore – by skill and hard work. With a proud history of manufacturing and making, Hive exists to raise the profile of Blackburn with Darwen, locally and across the wider UK, as a great place to do business.