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Furness Enterprise

Winners of the Enterprising Britain 2008 Northwest regional award
"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"

Furness Enterprise can help you through our total business support service

We help entrepreneurs and their companies to realise their business ambitions in a realistic way. We provide a professional, free, effective, co-ordinated, service to all enquiring companies, and then look to support them throughout their life and evolution.

Find out more about Furness Enterprise by visiting: www.furnessenterprise.co.uk

At Furness Enterprise we have a large focus on the future of the Furness area. This obviously includes young people living and working in the area and we have set up a designated project for the area's young people to access and assist them to become successful in business and employment.

Go Furness

A one-stop shop for young entrepreneurs in Furness

The Furness Enterprise project, Go Furness was set up to offer young people opportunities in business and employment.

We organise events throughout the year, where young people can find out about local opportunities and becoming an entrepreneur. Recently we have had speakers, including amongst many others; Wayne Hemmingway, Tori James and Imran Hakim, (famous for his I-Teddy on BBC's Dragons Den). Many of these are planned and delivered by the Furness Youth Professionals (FYP), a group established to bring together young professionals living or working in the area

Find out more about Go Furness by visiting: www.gofurness.com

The Go Furness website is a popular source of business news and events and an online platform for employers to connect with enterprising recruits.

The site is part of the ‘Encouraging Enterprising Communities’ project managed by Furness Enterprise, supported by Barrow Regeneration and Barrow Borough Council.

From the site, visitors can read up on local business news, check out upcoming events being held by Furness Enterprise and partners and, if you are a young person looking to move back or in to the area, upload CV details that are being promoted to local employers.

Visitors can also visit the 'Image Bank'; an area on the site dedicated to showing contemporary images of Barrow and surrounding areas, taken by local residents, photographers and film makers.

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: jbarker@furnessenterprise.co.uk

This project is part funded by the European Union

Barrow Regeneration

Barrow Regeneration is the Urban Regeneration Company for Furness.
There are four main aspects to our work.

• The "Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness" Master Plan – includes a new business park, an interesting mix of apartments and houses on Marina Village, a marina and sports and leisure facilities
• Business Support Strategy - to support new and growing businesses
• Festivals strategy - supporting good quality festival events
• Retention Strategy - involves improving the participatory sports, cultural, higher education and evening economy offer for the 18-30 age groups in the town, to ensure that there are young people around for local businesses to employ

It is essential that these four strategies work together, as they are all interdependent.

Cumbria County Council

Cumbria County Council is working with partner agencies and the local community to build pride in Cumbria. We will achieve this by focusing our efforts on:

• Improving Council services
• Making Cumbria more prosperous
• Improving the health and well-being of adults
• Improving the life chances and well-being of children and young people
• Creating safe and secure communities
• Creating and protecting a high quality environment for all

The Council's Local Committee for Barrow is pleased to support the Youth Re:Action Team. We see the Youth Re:Action Team as a vital link with young people in the Barrow area - helping us to achieve our aims.

To find out more about Cumbria County Council visit www.cumbria.gov.uk

To contact the Local Committee for Barrow, ring 01229 894312.

Barrow Borough Council

Barrow Borough Council has a number of roles in the regeneration of Barrow and the surrounding area. The Council manages some of the larger building projects, as does Barrow Regeneration, but we also work with other organisations as part of Furness Partnership - the Local Strategic Partnership for the Borough. Together we have developed a plan that sets out how we want to make life better for everyone, by doing things that local people have told us will make Barrow Borough a better place to live.
 
We want to make our Borough a place that is recognised, both by local people and by those outside the area, as a prosperous, pleasant, healthy and safe place to live and work. 
Our plan is called the Sustainable Community Strategy. Issues affecting young people are a big part of the strategy and this is what it says:

"The young people of Furness are at the heart of our vision for the future. If we are to achieve our vision we must strive to improve the health, well being and learning outcomes of children and young people, while ensuring that they acknowledge their responsibilities to the community".

To find out more about what the Sustainable Community Strategy says about helping young people to be healthy, stay safe, get the most out of life and achieve their full potential, visit www.barrowbc.gov.uk/community.

Or, if you prefer, you can email your comments, questions and suggestions to consultation@barrowbc.gov.uk, or send them to our FREEPOST address:
Community Consultation
Strategy and Regeneration
Barrow Borough Council
FREEPOST NAT22944
Barrow-in-Furness
LA14 2BR
You can pick up a copy of the Sustainable Community Strategy from Stephen McKinnell at the Town Hall. Tel: 01229 876341