00:00 Hi I'm Claire Bairdham, I'm Assistant Director for Skills and Enterprise at Wigan Council.
00:05 Today we're running our second business festival in the borough.
00:09 It's an event that's been co-designed with our business consortia
00:12 and it's very much about bringing businesses together.
00:15 We've got lots of exciting panels, it's about learning from each other, it's about networking
00:20 and we've also got a business support area.
00:22 So we're very much building on all the brilliant strengths, all the great businesses that we've got in the borough
00:27 and bringing everyone together to really learn from one another today at the business festival.
00:33 We also have an artisan market, so again really supporting our local businesses.
00:37 We're really committed to community wealth building and ensuring that we're really growing our local businesses across Wigan Borough.
00:45 [crowd noise]
