Daniel Lefton – sales specialist, Taskers of Accrington
We pretty fortunate in the fact that we have good people working for us. Quite a few have been with us for more than 20 years. We don’t have a high turnaround because we try and invest in people.
Daniel Lefton
We have quite intensive training to get team members up to speed. It is very much a mentoring type of business. If we’re hiring people, they don’t necessarily have to have all the skills before they join, they don’t have to be right, right away.
You need to give them a bit of breathing
space to develop and become right for your business. Every person in our business is a key member.
We are a heritage business. People come to see us from far and wide and our location is a positive. We bring a lot of people to Accrington.
You look at the companies in this area, they’re absolutely massive. are not aware of.
It’s something people
The council needs to work with the businesses in the area but they also need to work with their constituents to create a sense of community.
Stuart Maher – operations director, Watson Ramsbottom solicitors
To a lot of our clients Hyndburn’s spending seems to be focused only on Accrington. And Accrington’s only a small part of Hyndburn.
I’m Great Harwood born and bred and there’s never any mention of any investment there. I talk to people in Rishton who I’m sure feel the same. There’s no investment in these towns at all.
Stuart Maher
We’ve heard of £23m coming in which is absolutely fantastic news for the borough. It’s all going on three buildings within a 500- yard radius.
When it comes attracting people into the wider
borough to be able to work in businesses, the challenge is that there is far too much focus on Accrington town centre. Businesses also need to be involved in the decision-making
The opportunities lie in what these other towns and the people in them can offer. We hire locally as much as we can. As a business we hire people first and foremost because we like them. We train and we have grandchildren of staff working for us so heritage is very important to us as a business.
Huncoat Garden Village is a fantastic concept but there needs to be more than one. It needs to look wider and bigger.
Barry Thomas
Barry Thomas, managing director, Clayton Park Bakery
You don’t automatically link your business to the benefits of regeneration and the work that is being done, but on reflection that link is there.
We’ve had difficulties attracting employees and keeping them here. We’ve got people travelling from as far as Manchester and it is a difficult place to get to from those areas. Staff retention and training is paramount.
We set off 30 years ago with four employees and we now have around 230 staff at both our sites. There is an appetite to increase and develop the business.
So we have a massive part to play in the economy and the beauty about where we are, at both sites, is the motorway network.
There’s absolutely nowhere better in the north of England to be than on junction seven and eight of the M65, and we’re there.
Communication and a sense of togetherness will improve Accrington and the other towns in the borough.
This is a really exciting time. Levelling up is reaching Hyndburn and
we’re receiving significant investment
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