… We started this group in order to bring together startups, entrepreneurs, investors, techies and webbies in and around Manchester. Anyone who is thinking about starting their own software or web company and wants to bounce ideas off each other and meet potential partners or investors are welcome to join this group! Our aim is to connect the various tech communities to help our members network, connect, invest and launch products in the hottest technology clusters. We plan to organise monthly mee …

We’re a group of designers, developers and creatives based in and around East Cheshire. We meet regularly to share experiences and bring together like minds. Our goal is to retain digital work within the county and provide a platform to do business.

Processing newbies, tinkerers and gurus are all welcome to an informal Meetup at the Ranch studio, Victoria Street Liveprool. Share what you are up to with Processing, pick each others brains and learn new tricks. This isn't an expert group, but a gathering of people working it out as they go along. The Meetup will take place on the last Monday of each month, 6.30pm - 8pm. The first meet up will be on the 31st of April. Organiser @onthepennines or neil@re-dock.org

South Cheshire Creatives is a group to bring local freelancers, workers and business owners together throughout Cheshire, and the surrounding counties. Something that will allow us to network, mingle and meet like-minded creative folk on our own doorstep. That's whether you're into photography, art, digital, marketing, music, design or fashion. We stage regular meet-ups, mainly at nice, cosy pubs around South Cheshire where we can chat over a pint or two. We hope to add more events in future onc …

The Mancester Umbraco Meetup is a networking group aimed at spreading the Umbraco love to in the north west. Come along, have a chat and a beer with other fellow Umbracians. Feel free to bring along your laptop and troubles and we'll try and help out. Find out what's happening in the community and maybe we can get some special guests along occasionally. Any Umbraco newbies will be welcomed with open arms. We're open to all and sundry who have an interest in Web development, Umbraco and/or CMS' …

A group for anyone working in the creative industries in and around Warrington. Whether you're studying, freelancing, working professionally or just interested, get involved in developing the creative, digital and arts industries in the town. You can expect a very informal event with a couple of presentations and the opportunity to meet people working in your industry over a drink. Follow us on Twitter - http://twitter.com/WA_creative

The Manchester Lean Startup Group is a group of entrepreneurs who learn from each other by trading stories about employing the Lean Startup principles within their startups.   Lean Startups use customer development to reduce waste, reduce time to market, increase contact with customers and avoid incorrect market assumptions. They do this by employing a collection of techniques built around maximizing validated customer learning thought fast Build/Measure/Learn iteration loops. Learn More about L …

MWUG, the Manchester WordPress User Group is run by the WordPress co-founder, Mike Little with support from entrepreneur Saz Bailey. We are a friendly, supportive bunch from in and around Manchester, UK, who use the open source web publishing software WordPress to blog, design and develop websites. We love sharing technical and marketing expertise to help others achieve what they intend through WordPress. We meet once per month, on the third Wednesday, at Manchester Digital Laboratory aka MadLab …

North West Sencha Touch User Group is focussed on the Sencha Touch mobile JavaScript framework for developing mobile web apps. Members include people with a passion for developing mobile web apps specifically utilising HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, designers and developers currently working with the framework or thinking about using it and anyone else interested in expanding their understanding of designing and building for mobile. Regular topics will focus on the features available through Sencha …

This group is aimed at UK members of the Pimcore community to help promote meetups in and around the UK. Whether you are a Pimcore pro developer, newbie or end user, we'd love to share ideas & knowledge about this extremely powerful framework. You've seen Drupal and Wordpress and it's rather extensive communities and groups; now lets do the same for Pimcore. For more information about Pimcore visit: http://www.pimcore.org/ For Official support and community support, join the Pimcore fo …

Monthly free casual informal gaming meetups for gamers of all walks of life; Geeks, Technologists, Gamers, Gadget lovers, Technocrats, Web enthusiasts, Coders, Digital minds, and such at pubs and other locales in Stoke-on-Trent and the Staffordshire area. No worries, we don't do sales talk and we're not networking hardcore, just a social mixer amongst technology+gaming interested folks, geeks, coders, gamers, and friends.

Achieve you business and personal goals faster. This is regular networking event for entrepreneurs and individuals who are currently thinking about starting a business and for established entrepreneurs who are trying to grow and develop their businesses. The event is also for freelancers, home workers who can help entrepreneurs grow and develop their businesses. We especially would like to meet web & IT specialists, sales & marketing professionals, admin & secretarial, finance, accounting …