The Physiological Society’s Departmental Seminar Scheme provides funding to support members to host seminars about physiological research. This funding covers the cost of transport and accommodation for visiting speakers. Last year we submitted a joint application for funding to organise a one day symposium between the three Universities. The main advantages of this were: we did not have to find a suitable time every month to guarantee a good audience, we were able to invite speakers from three institutions (with reduced travel costs) and our potential audience was much larger. Furthermore, the size of the grant awarded is dependent on the number of members at the institution(s) applying. Last year we organised a ‘Greater Manchester’ Physiology symposium at MMU, with 8 speakers from UoM, MMU and UoS. We attracted an audience of 90, which included mostly Society members, but also a few undergraduate students. We combined the symposium with Rachel Tribe’s GL Brown Prize lecture (awarded to MMU), thereby boosting her audience. We opted against a specific theme for the symposium, but encouraged speakers from different stages of their research careers (from a PhD student to a Professor with over 40 years’ research experience). Audience members benefitted from a day of stimulating 20 minute physiology-themed seminars, a chance to interact with researchers from other institutions and a good lunch and evening reception. This May we organised a similar symposium (hosted by UoM) and included a poster presentation over lunch/coffee for early career researchers to showcase their work. Attendees were asked to complete a survey about their views of this year’s symposium. All 17 respondents agreed that the Symposium had furthered their knowledge of Physiology, with 88% stating that they had learnt about physiological molecules and pathways they were not previously aware of. 71% stated that they had learnt about physiological techniques, and a further 71% about physiological mechanisms which were new to them. Of the respondents who had also attended the 2018 symposium, 30% stated that they had gained advice from another attendee in the last year. 76% attendees this year would consider collaborating with another attendee. These findings suggest that hosting a physiology symposium between geographically close institutions is an effective way of sharing findings from current or recent research studies, and may help to instigate collaboration between researchers. Furthermore, it is an economical way of bringing physiologists together and ensuring a good audience for some talented researchers.