Hundreds of skilled engineers

are now needed to help design build integrate Britain’s new nuclear powered submarines at barrow shipyard. www.baesystems.com/subsjobs
Come and join us on the edge of the Lake District a great place to live and work www.barrow.furness.co.uk

Safeguarding BT jobs in furness

Click here to see how we worked with Communications Workers Union, the MP and the local community. Months of negotiations and rigorous campaigning persuaded BT to safeguard 57 jobs at their Barrow customer service centre.

Excellent business events

We run a wide range of events offering businesses of all sizes the chance to participate in seminars, workshops, masterclasses, entrepreneur evenings. Find out more about our upcoming events here

Friendly, helpful, welcoming staff

We are businesses first choice for business support and a long established local enterprise partnership focused on delivering help for all businesses and job access for residents here

Helping local people into work

Helping you to find work, accessing and using IT facilities at our workshops for compiling CV’s and job searching on the internet, a telephone/FAX for job enquiries and up-to-date newspapers to view vacancies. Find out how we can help you here

Stunning business site
development

Furness has some really outstanding, cost effective business sites available for growing and expanding firms, the waterfront, Barrow in Furness, is the main business site. Plots from £1000,000 per acre ready now. Read more here

Great business premises

Local firms and those companies looking to move into the Furness Assisted Area have a great choice of facilities and skills to tap into. Rent typically £3.75 - £4.50 per sq ft.

Make your move - here’s how we can help

Engineering our Future

"More technology goes into a nuclear submarine than any other product on the planet"
- C. Blackhurst, Evening Standard,

Manufacturing our Future

Gyrodata are a large established American firm with its manufacturing HQ in Barrow energy here

Offshore Engineering Careers

REpower UK are recruiting a team of Offshore Service Engineers. Contact us for more details or download them here

Engineering our Future

Barrow and Furness - Manufacturing is at the heart of Cumbria here