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recorded a 73 per cent increase in turnover, up to £3.9m, an 81 per cent increase in pre-tax profit, to £403,000, and growth in its team, from 19 employees to 26.


Paradigm Precision, which employs a


Several cultural projects in Lancashire have received funding from the government’s £42.5m levelling up pot overseen by the Arts Council. Blackburn with Darwen Council has received £2m to be allocated to Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, National Festival of Making, British Textile Biennial and Culturapedia. Blackpool will receive £225,000 per year, starting in April 2023, to invest in the Lightpool Festival. The resort’s Grand Theatre and Grundy Art Gallery have had their funding extended by three years, receiving more than £1.5m and £99,000 respectively. Accrington-based DanceSyndrome, the dance-based charity which supports people with learning disabilities, has received £300,000.


The relocation of Blackpool’s courts, a key


part of the resort’s £300m regeneration plan, can now progress after receiving £40m levelling up funding. The magistrates and county courts currently sit on land earmarked for the Blackpool Central year-round leisure destination.


Lancaster-based LiNa Energy, which is


developing next-generation battery technology, has raised a further £3m in late seed funding, primarily from existing investors.


through a management buyout led by Simon Blackley, who has been a director at the business since 2009.


Farleys Solicitors has secured the backing to


accelerate its growth plans after joining Lawfront. The Blackburn firm will be able to tap into the group’s investing capital, central systems and people to unlock new growth opportunities.


Burnley FC in the Community has


teamed up with Pendle-based FUNDA to create a state-of-the-art, 133,00 sq ft leisure facility at its Leisure Box site.


Weeton-based Fylde Fresh & Fabulous


Group has acquired Troy Foods through a pre- pack administration. The Leeds-based fourth- generation family business employs 104, with all jobs transferred across.


Vincents Solicitors is to open a new office OnSide, which supports young people by


providing affordable activities, has submitted a planning application to open a Youth Zone opposite Preston’s bus station. The charity’s national network of 14 locations includes established sites in Blackburn and Chorley.


The £11m Strawberry Meadows Business Park in Euxton has opened, comprising a mix of office and light industrial space ranging from 500sq ft to 5,000sq ft units. Of the 33 units available, 17 are allocated with 15 already occupied.


The John Lewis Foundation Trust has donated


£100,000 to Youth Zone Darwen - an offshoot of Blackburn Youth Zone. The two organisations were put in touch by Herbert Parkinson, a patron of the charity which has supplied textile products to the retailer since 1953.


Burnley-based textiles firm Ashfield Mill and its two subsidiaries have been acquired


An area of land spanning 45 acres which was once home to Darwen Moorland High School is set to be sold for housing. The land is currently owned by five different parties, including Blackburn with Darwen Council. It was ear- marked for development in the council’s 2015 Local Plan. Now Vistry Partnerships has been selected as the preferred bidder for a project which would see a new neighbourhood of more than 470 homes built.


Over its most recent accounting period, Skelmersdale-based Walker Engineering


in Lytham to accommodate its growing team, which includes five senior appointments across its private client, residential property and family law departments. The firm takes on the former home of Linder Myers Solicitors, the former employer of all five recruits.


Lytham-based pet nutraceuticals


manufacturer VetPlus is strengthening its links with South America by opening a base in the Argentine capital city Buenos Aires.


EFL League One’s Morecambe Football Club has recruited Lancaster-based design studio Two Stories to refresh its brand.


workforce of more than 200 in Burnley, has been acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Greenbriar Equity Group, both based in the USA. The company will be merged with Connecticut- based Whitcraft Group, already part of Greenbriar’s portfolio. Annette Weekes has been appointed general manager of the business.


Chorley-based travel firm Alfa Leisureplex has secured a £15m funding package with NatWest to continue its post-pandemic growth plans, including adding to its portfolio of 21 hotels.


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