£1.8 million available to Cumbrian businesses

In 2011 Enterprise Answers who are Cumbria’s only Community Development Finance Institution announced they had been awarded 1.8 million pounds from the Regional Growth Fund. After a long wait this money is now available to many businesses in Cumbria seeking additional...

Regional Growth Fund Round 4 bids - LEP support
The Government has launched a fourth round of Regional Growth Fund bidding and £350 million is available nationally for bids for individual projects o...
MP welcomes manufacturing jobs for South Lakes
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed an announcement by Business Secretary Vince Cable that £239,000 will be invested to help boost advanced manufac...
CN Group to hand out £4m Government cash to local businesses
North West publishing house, CN Group, has won a bid to distribute a £4m slice of the Government’s Regional Growth Fund (RGF). The RGF was set up to b...
Financial support for SMEs in Cumbria
The Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) comes to an end in December 2013. All the money the programme had in the Solway, Border and Eden ar...
MP calls on Cumbrian businesses to bid for regional growth funding
The Coalition Government scheme that has already created or safeguarded 1144 jobs in South Lakeland opens a new round of bids today, Thursday 17th Jan...
Opportunity to join Cumbria LEP Board
Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has now been in operation for more than 18 months. In that time they have already brought many millions of...
Keith Proudfoot ICAEW Regional Director
Northern business confidence hit by high unemployment and concerns over public policy
Business confidence in the North of England has slipped back to negative territory. According to the Quarter 4 2011 ICAEW/Grant Thornton UK Business Confidence Monitor (BCM) senior business...
Cumbria's MP's welcome Osborne's Autumn Statement
Cumbria’s MPs have given a positive response to the Autumn Statement given by Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.
£2.75 million RGF grant will create 500 jobs and could "tranform" Kendal says MP
A new £2.75million grant will create 500 South Lakes jobs and safeguard a further 250,and could potentially transform Kendal, says local MP, Tim Farron, who worked as part of a team to win the award...
Cumbrian bids successful in second round of the Government’s Regional Growth Fund
The Cumbrian business community has welcomed the success of local bids in the second round of the Government's Regional Growth Fund (RGF).