Make UK Defence is proud to be the trade association representing the defence supply chain, SME & mid-tier community across the whole of the UK. Part of Make UK, the national voice of manufacturing, we represent over 700 companies. Our focus is on creating meaningful connections for companies in the sector and providing stronger representation for those that provide vital components, technologies and services to both industry and government. Most of our team is not London based because we feel it is important that we live and work in the regions, towns and cities that our members are based in. We receive no Government funding, and we also cap our subscriptions with the big Defence Primes, so our voice remains truly independent.
Our mission is simple:
• To understand our members, their capabilities and their challenges.
• To help suppliers find relevant opportunities within defence.
• To assist companies in finding suppliers to help build the programmes of today and tomorrow.
• To help our members improve their performance through our Fit for Defence programme.
• To create the best networking community in the UK defence industry.
• To relentlessly champion the UK defence supply chain.
Together, we are building an innovative, forward looking, world-class and British defence supply chain.
I am also privileged to be a member of the new Defence Industrial Joint Council, representing our members and the UK Defence Sector more widely, so we are at the heart of defence reform and embedding improvements in working between the MOD and the UK Defence sector and supporting the Primes in their supply chain improvement journey. – Andrew Kinniburgh, Director General