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Welcome to Furness Enterprise, your "first choice for business support" (source:Hill Taylor Partnership "furness business support survey, 2007"),

Furness is part of a UK Assisted Area - here special discretionary grants for capital investment and job creation are available to companies of all sizes.

Furness has a really strong manufacturing base which underpins the wealth creating ability of the sub region.Leading businesses based here include Kimberly-Clark,BAESYSTEMS Submarine Solutions,Centrica Energy,Liberata,Agilisys.

Furness Enterprise 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.

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”

We help companies of all sizes to grow by offering a wide range of discretionary grants and other assistance including Masterclasses,seminars,training courses and other events at our Waterside House business incubation and events centre where we can also assist those international compnaies seeking a "soft landing" in the area or UK by offering virtual office facilities and other assistance.

We lobby Government for more resources, and contribute to the work of other organisations such as NWDA, West Lakes Renaissance, Business Link north west and Cumbria Vision to sustain a strong local economy. We also address worklessness by helping individuals to access jobs.

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

Naval Shipbuilding Website

Sir Richard Evans CBE, chairman of United Utilities presentation to our 2007 open evening is available here

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How to find us

Cumbria,
NW England

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Contact Us

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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Other Resources

Cumbria Vision
North West Development Agency
West Lakes Renaissance

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Last Updated: 06/07/2008

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