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Relations Team of the Year - from the Educate North Awards, while Edge Hill University claimed a pair of its own - the Business Collaboration and Partnerships Award and Mental Health and Wellbeing Award.
Blackburn with Darwen Council revealed
the details of £90m regeneration programme for Darwen. The budget includes £25m secured from the government’s Town Deal fund and £65m committed by the council and private investors. The plan includes £13m invested in revamping the town centre and £47m committed to creating and safeguarding jobs in the town.
Active Lancashire received £208,000 funding from Sport England. The money will be allocated to projects and groups who work with people with disabilities, ethnically diverse communities, disadvantaged children, those with long term health conditions and more.
Chorley-based Nationwide Frame Services, which supplies and installs windows and doors
for housebuilders, secured a £1m funding facility provided by Reward Finance Group to help it capitalise on the post-pandemic construction boom.
Garstang-based Cheese Matters and
Lancaster-based Samuelson Wylie Associates each earned the Queen’s Award for International Trade for Outstanding Short Term Growth. The former increased international sales by 80 per cent between 2018 and 2021 while the latter has found European favour for its specialist PR and events services for the automotive sector.
Chorley-based investment portfolio management company handl Group acquired a group of clinical products specialists. IPRS, which stands for Injury, Prevention and Rehabilitation Services, consists of four brands which combined to generate £17m in revenues in the most recent financial year.
Preston-based Panthera Biosciences raised
£10m of funding from BGF and Gresham House Ventures to be invested in expanding its network of dedicated clinical trial sites across the UK and Western Europe.
Freedom Heat Pumps expanded its main office and distribution hub in Bamber Bridge after doubling turnover across the previous year. The new 15,000 sq ft facility brings all areas of the business together under one roof.
The government approved Blackpool’s £39.5m Town Deal allocation in full. The funds will be divided across seven regeneration projects, including moving the courts to release land for Blackpool Central, relocating Blackpool & The Fylde College’s Palatine Road campus to the town centre, improving access to the Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone and upgrading the illuminations. The town has also received £20m funding which will be used to introduce a fleet of 115 electric buses to its roads within five years. Its current diesel fleet will be sold on.
Building products manufacturer Forterra
is to invest £12m in its Accrington facility to capitalise on the growth in demand for brick slips, a more environmentally friendly alternative to the tradition bricks manufactured at the site for more than 100 years.
BCW Manufacturing Group has
taken over the operation which anodises aluminium chassis components for Lotus sports cars. The Burnley company will run the Lotus Lightweight Structures Anodising plant in Northamptonshire, which Lotus has operated itself since 2009.
Business First opened new serviced office
sites in Blackburn, Nelson, Rochdale and Blackpool, increasing its portfolio by around around 70,000 sq ft.
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) took home three awards - Business/ Industry Collaboration - University Sector, Research Project of the Year and External
Animate, the proposed city-owned cinema and leisure and complex, has been granted planning permission by Preston Council. The project has been designed by Leach Rhodes Walker, is being developed in partnership with Maple Grove Developments and will be funded by Preston’s Harris Quarter Towns Fund Investment Programme.
Sales at Blackpool-based food supplement and health product manufacturer Nutrition Group have grown by 22 per cent in the last 12 months, reaching £24.1m.
Blackburn-based Sales Geek is continuing to increase its footprint, opening its first franchise in Yorkshire and its second in London.
Housebuilder Redrow has secured the planning consent required to extend its housing development at The Grange in Burscough. The 12.5-acre parcel of land will include 169 new homes.
BAE Systems has been awarded an 11-year, £590m contract to continue its support of the RAF’s Hawk fleet. Engineers from Samlesbury and Warton will also be involved in technical support, engineering and project management.
Fylde Council acquired two historic buildings which it intends to refurbish as part of its wider £10m Kirkham Futures regeneration masterplan. The Grade II listed Hillside, located on Preston Street, will be converted into a centre of excellence for teaching heritage- based construction techniques and eco skills. The former Charity Girls School on Poulton Street, built in 1860, will be converted it into a restaurant and community cinema.
Ormskirk-based sports pitch specialist J Mallinson acquired Telford-based ALS Contract Services from owner Agrovista for an undisclosed sum.
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