A new £7.25m programme that will promote Lancashire businesses and create jobs has secured matched funding from the European Regional Development Fund. The Lancashire Business Growth Hub will enable businesses to create more than 1,200 jobs by 2015, safeguard a further 700 and boost the Lancashire economy by £20m. Through the hub, firms with high […]

A Chorley businessman has developed a new online tool that will help students enter the business place with experience of mobile app creation.

Plans to bring a disused building in a Green Flag park back to life are underway in Nelson – thanks to a new business start up programme. The Victoria Park Pavilion, which has been closed for six years, is being transformed into a cafŽ and community hub. Entrepreneurs Louise Hoole and Petra Wilson are turning […]

Small and medium sized businesses in Lancashire are being asked to consider alternative methods of funding after new research shows 65% are disillusioned with sourcing financial support from banks.