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Welcome to Furness Enterprise and Furness

Furness Enterprise are your "first choice for business support" (source:Hill Taylor Partnership "furness business support survey, 2007") in South West Cumbria's Furness peninsula, one of the UK's Assisted Areas, where special grants are available to companies of all sizes. We are committed to helping your company to grow successfully by providing you with a ISO9001 Quality Assured, locally provided, locally focused, simplified enterprise and business support service. By the end of 2006 we had enabled companies to create over 8,103 jobs since 1992. We help individuals access jobs and companies to grow. We lobby Government for more resources, and contribute to the work of others such as West Lakes Renaissance,  Business Link north west and Cumbria Vision involved in sustaining a strong local economy.

Our mission is:

“To drive the development of Furness towards a stronger more balanced economic structure, where it generates wealth from a spectrum of industrial activities and provides stable employment”

The Furness area is home to UK's  naval submarine building industry,find out more about naval shipbuilding here

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NEW Watch Sir Richard Evans CBE, chairman of United Utilities address over 140 furness business leaders at our 2007 open evening.

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01/05/2008
Burlington used for new bypass
The aggregates division of natural stone producer, Cumbria-based Burlington, provided a total of 234,053 tonnes of crushed infill stone and over 8,400 tonnes of weathered walling stone for a new bypass in the Lake District National Park.



24/04/2008
512 new jobs created in 2007 with help from enterprise group
A DEVELOPMENT agency claims its grants and business advice helped create 512 new jobs in Furness in 2007. (NW Evening Mail 23/4/08)



21/04/2008
Take the Bite out of the Credit Crunch - Wednesday 30th April 2008
Seminar giving advice on how to deal with financial problems



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Furness is home to a wide range
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Between 1992 and 2007 we helped
companies create over 8100 jobs.


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NW England

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Furness Enterprise Ltd, Waterside House, Waterside Business Park, Bridge Approach, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA14 2HE

Tel: +44 (0)1229 820611 Fax: +44 (0)1229 827226
Email: info@furnessenterprise.co.uk

This project is part
funded by the European
Union


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