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The UK businesses in your ecosystem are adopting AI. Corporate membership of AI for Growth helps you support them — and shape how it happens.

Corporate membership is for large UK organisations — banks, telecoms, infrastructure providers, and industry bodies — whose ecosystem includes the SMEs AI for Growth is built to serve. Members support AI adoption across their networks, shape the tools and content reaching thousands of UK business owners, and associate visibly with a nationally backed initiative.

What it is

Corporate membership is built around ecosystem reach and genuine contribution.

Corporate membership of AI for Growth is for large UK organisations whose relationship with SMEs gives them a unique role in the initiative's work — as ecosystem partners that can reach, influence, and support the businesses AI for Growth is built to serve.

Banks whose SME clients are deciding whether to invest in AI. Telecoms providers whose small business customers need to understand what AI tools are available on their infrastructure. Industry bodies whose members are asking what AI means for their sector. These are the organisations corporate membership is designed for.

Membership is contribution-led. Members contribute through some combination of time, expertise, convening power, reach, and financial support. What they get is proportional to what they bring.

What you get

Four benefits of corporate membership. Each one scales with your ecosystem reach.

  • 01

    Reach the businesses in your ecosystem

    AI for Growth gives you a structured, credible way to support AI adoption among the SMEs you already work with — customers, supply chain partners, sector members. Rather than pushing your own AI messaging through your own channels, you're contributing to a trusted national initiative that SMEs are choosing to engage with.

  • 02

    Shape what gets built

    Corporate members participate in the working groups where AI for Growth's tools, content, and guidance are developed. If your sector has specific AI adoption challenges — regulatory, infrastructural, or practical — that perspective belongs in the room where the guidance is being written.

  • 03

    Be part of the national conversation

    AI for Growth engages with government, regulators, and the media on AI adoption across the UK economy. Corporate members are part of that conversation — not as passive sponsors, but as contributing organisations with a stake in the outcomes.

  • 04

    Visible association with a credible initiative

    Publicly associated with a nationally visible, government-backed initiative dedicated to practical AI adoption. Relevant to enterprise buyers, government stakeholders, regulators, and the press — particularly for organisations operating in regulated sectors where responsible AI adoption is a reputational consideration.

Who it's for

Corporate membership is for large UK organisations with significant SME-facing ecosystems.

  • Banks and financial services

    SME lending, business banking, payment infrastructure — financial services organisations whose small business relationships give them direct influence over AI adoption decisions.

  • Telecoms and infrastructure providers

    Connectivity, cloud, and platform providers whose small business customer base is the infrastructure layer on which SME AI adoption runs.

  • Industry bodies and trade associations

    Sector organisations whose members are asking what AI means for their industry — and who have the convening power to translate AI for Growth's guidance into sector-specific adoption.

  • Large corporates with supply chain or customer SME ecosystems

    Retailers, manufacturers, and service businesses whose supply chains or customer bases include large numbers of SMEs — and whose influence over those relationships shapes how AI gets adopted through the wider economy.

If you work for an AI company rather than a large corporate, partnership is a different route.

Current members

The organisations already involved.

Corporate members include BT and other major UK organisations with significant SME-facing ecosystems. The full list of AI for Growth founding partners and members is published on the About page.

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Interested in corporate membership?

Get in touch and tell us about your organisation — your sector, your SME ecosystem, and where you think you can contribute. We'll be honest about whether there's a fit and what membership looks like in practice.

Get in touch

We aim to respond within a few working days.

Common questions

What people usually ask about corporate membership.

Corporate membership of AI for Growth is for large UK organisations — banks, telecoms, infrastructure providers, and industry bodies — that UK SMEs already rely on. Corporate members support the initiative, engage their own ecosystem, and help the businesses they work with adopt AI in practical ways. Membership is built around contribution and ecosystem reach. Members contribute through some combination of time, expertise, convening power, reach, and financial support — and the terms of each membership are agreed with the organisation based on what it brings and needs.

Large UK corporates join AI for Growth to support AI adoption among the SMEs in their supply chain, customer base, or sector; to shape the tools and content reaching thousands of UK business owners; to be part of the national conversation on AI alongside government and enterprise; and to associate visibly with a credible, nationally backed initiative. The benefit scales with ecosystem reach — the more SMEs your organisation works with, the more valuable your membership becomes.

Corporate members include BT and other major UK organisations with significant SME-facing ecosystems. The full list is published on the AI for Growth About page. Corporate membership is selective — focused on organisations whose ecosystem reach can meaningfully support UK SME AI adoption. The roster is growing as the initiative expands.

Get in touch via the AI for Growth corporate membership form on the Get Involved page. Tell us about your organisation, your SME ecosystem, and where you think you can contribute. AI for Growth responds within a few working days with an honest assessment of fit. Membership is built around genuine ecosystem contribution, and the terms — including any financial contribution — are agreed with each organisation based on what it brings and what it needs.