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Date: 28 April 2026 Time: 08.30-11.00
Venue: Dunkenhalgh Hotel and Spa
Join decision-makers implementing AI and automation, and those considering their next steps.
Hear from business leaders and specialist practitioners on what is working, what is challenging, and how organisations are adopting new technologies while managing risk.
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Brought to you by:
Supporting Lancashire businesses for 40 years.
In association with: Amy King, Mark Gibbons and Martin Emmott with Richard Slater
ROSEBUD BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
“Rosebud provides the building blocks and those building blocks helped get us to where we are today.”
That simple message from Phil Barnard, co founder of Adlington-based DA Techs and Smart Techs, became the unofficial theme of Lancashire County Council’s Rosebud 40th anniversary celebration, held at The Flower Bowl near Preston.
Business founders, fund managers and county leaders heard about Lancashire County’s Council’s relationship-led business finance programme that does more than lend, it underpins and supports Lancashire businesses to scale, diversify and endure.
Amin Vepari, the business finance and scaleup lead at Lancashire County Council, says Rosebud’s success is down to taking considered risks and evolving with the market.
He said: “Rosebud’s been around what seems like forever and it’s very unusual for a council to do this kind of stuff as it goes into that commercial space, and there’s risk involved, but there’s a lot of satisfaction with it as well.
“We’re not a transactional lender. We’ve made it more about relationships and we’ve grown that. There’s no mandate saying ‘we have to do this’. We do it out of choice because we want to.”
Rosebud has created over 1,400 jobs in the
last 14 years and invested more than £27.5m in the last 12 years.
Delegates heard from the inspirational panel of Rupert Gatty from Coolkit, Janis Saveljevs of JJS Supplies, Phil Barnard of DA Techs and Smart Techs and Mike Riding of Process Instruments about the impact of Rosebud on their organisations.
Rupert talked about the aftermath of the credit crunch in 2010 when Rosebud stepped in where others wouldn’t.
He said: “Rosebud agreed to invest £20,000, it was a big step forward and helped us work our way into major vehicle leasing businesses.”
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