Our Crew! Info on our regeneration agency partners
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 Entrepreneurship in Furness' project managed by Furness Enterprise and Redbrick Enterprises Ltd and supported by West Lakes Renaissance.
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: info@furnessenterprise.co.uk
This project is part funded by the European Union
West Lakes Renaissance
West Lakes Renaissance is the Urban Regeneration Company for Furness and West Cumbria area.
In Barrow, 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.
We support the Youth Reaction Team as it provides a channel through which the young people of Barrow have a voice with local regeneration issues. This will enable them to shape their future here.
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.
Aim Higher
Many very able young people from the Barrow area do not progress on to Higher Education. Aimhigher...Cumbria works with young people to make sure that they have the information and support they need to achieve their full potential. Most of our work goes on in secondary schools but we also work with primary schools, colleges and adults.
We give young people a chance to learn what university is like and to consider if it's right for them by:
- Arranging visits to lots of different Universities
- Putting on 'Summer Schools' where young people get to try living like a student for a few days, attending lectures and living away from home
- Bringing guests into school to talk about College and University
- Running games and activities about University
- Getting help for our events from Student Ambassadors - current students who can tell you what life as a student is really like
If you'd like to know more about Aimhigher...Cumbria or about Higher Education please visit www.aimhigher.ac.uk/cumbria
Barrow Excellence Cluster Partnership
Barrow Excellence Cluster Partnership (BECP) is a team working with a group of 19 primary schools, 5 secondary schools and two colleges in Furness.
BECP’s aim is to work together with the schools to raise standards by ensuring that EVERY learner has access to high quality inspirational and aspirational learning opportunities.
We believe;
- every young person has their own gifts and talents, so we encourage schools to work together to provide a wide variety of teaching and learning activities which will enable all young people to achieve their potential.
- that the most effective learning happens when we work together, so we seek out opportunities for schools and learners to work with professionals from other organisations.
We value the views of young people, and believe that students should have the opportunity to make their voices heard so that schools - and other organisations who provide services for young people - can listen and incorporate their views when planning for the future.
This is why we are supporting the Youth Re:Action Team - so that young people across Barrow can have a say in the future of their town.
To contact BECP please telephone, 01229 407361
Creative Partnerships
What is Creative Partnerships?
Creative Partnerships is the Government’s flagship creativity programme for schools and young people.
It aims to develop:
- young people’s creativity, hopes and achievements
- the creative skills of teachers and their ability to work with creative people
- the skills of the creative companies to work with education
What does creativity mean to you?
Is it about doing art, music or drama – or is it more about questioning, making connections, inventing and reinventing, and flexing the imaginative muscles?
We believe creativity develops our capacity to imagine the world differently. We need the ability not just to cope with the world we live in, but also to positively change it for ourselves.
Therefore, we need the tools to imagine how the world could be different and the ability to help make it happen. We need to be able to take risks and fail confidently, to try out ideas in ‘real world’ situations and receive helpful critical feedback.
How does it work?
Creative Partnerships enables schools to work in long term relationships with creative professionals. The programme works by exploring the creativity of learners and teachers, and by supporting creative approaches to teaching all aspects of the curriculum.
We hope that Creative Partnerships enables head teachers, staff and pupils to realise their personal vision for their school, freeing them up to innovate and succeed.
Find out more
Creative Partnerships Cumbria works with a number of schools in Furness and across the county. To find out more visit www.creative-partnerships.com
Barrow Borough Council
Barrow Borough Council has a number of roles in the regeneration of Barrow-in-Furness Borough. The Council has worked with a number of local people and organisations to write a plan for the future, called the Sustainable Community Strategy.
The vision in the Strategy sets out how we are going to achieve it together. The Council does some of the larger building projects, as does West Lakes Renaissance. The Council also works with schools and colleges, police, health sector, County Council and businesses to help people get more out of life and prepare to take up the opportunities as they arise.
The Strategy explains how the Borough Council and all of its partners will try to deliver the things that local people have told us will make Barrow Borough a better place to live, while working in ways that contribute to sustainable development in the UK. Issues affecting young people form a big part of the strategy. This is an excerpt:
"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. Furness Partnership's priorities closely reflect the priorities of the "Every Child Matters" agenda, and we are committed helping children and young people to:
be healthy: enjoy good physical and mental health and live a
healthy lifestyle
stay safe: be protected from harm and neglect
enjoy and achieve: get the most out of life and develop skills
for adulthood
make a positive contribution: be involved with the community and society and not engage in anti-social or offending behaviour
achieve economic well-being: not be prevented by economic
disadvantage from achieving their full potential in life."
The Strategy was updated in 2008, but we are always interested in your views.
You can tell us what you think about the Sustainable Community Strategy by emailing your comments to consultation@barrowbc.gov.uk or, if you prefer, you can send your comments, questions or suggestions to our FREEPOST address:
Community Consultation
Strategy and Regeneration
Barrow Borough Council
FREEPOST NAT22944
Barrow-in-Furness
LA14 2BR