Miranda Barker Chief executive
@elancschamber
chamberelancs.co.uk
MAKE BUSINESS SUPPORT A PRIORITY FOR JOBS AND GROWTH
European structural funds were born 47 years ago and places like Lancashire started on a path that was to bring millions of pounds of investment into business support.
This European money powered regeneration, business start-ups, scale ups and specialist support and drove economic growth. Whether administered by the Regional Development Agencies, Business Links or Lancashire County Council, it gave us support such as Boost - there to give all businesses a leg-up.
QUITE A RECEPTION
Almost 100 guests attended the Red Rose Awards 2022 winners’ reception held at Bartle Hall, near Preston.
They heard details of a new peer group open to this year’s winners which is being launched by Community and Business Partners. The first session will take place later this summer.
Jaydee Davis, operations director at the organisation, told the audience of winners and sponsors: “It will be a safe space
where the winners can come together to talk about challenges and solutions and continue networking.”
The event also heard from judges and sponsors who talked about the positive impact of the awards. The 2023 awards evening will take place at Winter Gardens in Blackpool on March 9.
For full coverage of the 2022 event please turn to page 18
But times are a changing and with our exit from Europe this funding will soon be no more, and is set to be replaced by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund - being handled by the first time by local district councils.
The district councils have been given funding directly from government to spend on local communities and places, supporting local businesses, people and skills.
They are understandably delighted to have some investment to spend on their towns and in their villages.
SHOWING OFF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
The countdown is on to the North Lancashire Business Expo.
Lancashire Business View is once again the exclusive media partner to the event which this year will take place on Friday September 30 at Lancaster and Morecambe College.
The business showcase with exhibitors, stands and talks attracted more than 2,500 visitors in its launch year.
It offers exhibitors a unique opportunity to meet north Lancashire’s most diverse gathering of business owners, decision- makers, and entrepreneurs. It targets high- achieving companies from all sectors and from all sections of the community.
The expo enables exhibitors to engage with customers who are attending with the specific intention of making new contacts.
Stephen Bolton, Lancashire Business View’s commercial director, said: “We’re
delighted to be supporting this great showcase which gives people the opportunity to get a taste of why the north of the county is so important. It is a real day of discovery.”
The North Lancashire Business Expo is organised by Lancaster and District Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Lancaster City Council and Lancaster and Morecambe College.
For more information visit
www.lancaster-chamber.org.uk
LANCASHIREBUSINESSVIEW.CO.UK
But we must encourage them to put some of that money into business support. Otherwise, we face a future of postcode lotteries again - with firms on one side of the street eligible and, on the other, nothing for someone wanting to start or grow a business and create jobs.
These are not far distant corporations, these are local firms giving jobs to our neighbours, our children, our friends.
Business support such as Boost, and so many other specialist projects, is essential as stimulation for all those trying to create prosperous companies which ultimately deliver business rates back to those local district councils to fund everything else.
If we don’t fund business support, we run the risk that in future years, those businesses will not be there, and with them gone, so will be those business rates, jobs and all our aspirations for the future.
Need business support?
info@chamberelancs.co.uk 01254 356400
chamberelancs.co.uk
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