Welcome to CEME

an inspirational environment for businesses to grow

Inspiring. Inclusive. Innovative. Open and honest.

CEME is more than an inspirational environment for your business – it’s a dynamic contributor to your business growth. In fact, we’ve proved that businesses based at CEME grow on average four times faster than the national average.

Our mission is to inspire inclusive business growth, contributing to economic prosperity.

By working with partners, we are in an optimal position to help our business community benefit from regional regeneration and the economic infrastructure delivered by the Thames Freeport and developing hydrogen energy ecosystem. 

We are helping to shape the future of the Thames Estuary through the development of the Thames Estuary Regional Innovation & Enterprise District (RIED). Anchored at CEME, the initiative aims to connect businesses, universities, investors and public sector organisations to accelerate innovation, investment and economic growth across the region.

Our vision is a world where engineering, technology, design, and manufacturing businesses improve life and wellbeing.

We offer access to flexible workspace for business growth, training, potential funding sources and an exceptional research and development infrastructure, helping to expedite new innovations and ideas.

At CEME’s business campus in Rainham, East London, you’ll be part of a community of like-minded entrepreneurs, based in an environment that’s geared towards positive change.

Let’s start growing your business today.

Get to know us

Things we do

Our purpose is to create prosperity by delivering quality jobs, skills and opportunities in the communities we serve, across our region and the country as a whole.

Upcoming events

CEME is more than a space for your business. It’s a space for more than 100 engineering, technology and training businesses, meaning it makes you part of a community of like-minded potential partnerships.

To help generate and foster those partnerships, we offer regular, free learning events led by local experts. Take a look at some of our past successes and get yourself booked in for the next one.

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