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Pennine Lancashire Museums group, has secured a grant £71,000 of Arts Council strategic support funding for a new multi-museum project, ‘We are the Champions’. This ambitious project will see all nine museums in the partnership develop workforce ‘champions’, to develop their brand, share best practice across the museums and improve the visitor experience as a result. […]

Marketing Lancashire is calling on all Lancastrians to help create Lancashire’s Hall of Fame as partof a VisitEngland national campaign to find the country’s ‘great and the good’. From the country’s most notorious witch hunt in Pendle to spearheading the Industrial Revolution, Lancashire has played a huge part in the shaping of England’s history.  Add […]

Visitors to Preston, the Guild City, should have no problem finding their way around, thanks to a new city centre map. Featuring Preston’s key attractions, recent graphics graduate, Ric Bixter alongside UCLan graphics tutor, Pete Thompson, developed the map on behalf of Preston City Council and the Business Improvement District (BID). The map will replace […]

Blackpool Zoo is urging visitors, members, Facebook fans and Twitter followers to ‘pull the plug’ for Climate Week (3rd – 9th March 2014). The research and education team at the zoo are working with the European Association of Zoo’s and Aquariums (EAZA) on a two-year campaign entitled Pole to Pole, which has been designed to […]

Entries for the second Asda Foundation Pennine Lancashire 10K were officially opened on Monday 3rd February as it was revealed local charities are in line for a huge £10,000 boost. The cash was raised by the face of Safestyle Windows’ famous TV adverts, Jeff Brown, who lost over 5 stone in weight to take on the […]

Marketing Lancashire, the destination management organisation for Lancashire, is working with Creative England, to help raise the profile of the many unique and photogenic locations and venues available in and around the county, for television and film-makers. Creative England supports creative ideas, talent and businesses in film, TV, games and digital media and, as part […]

Marketing Lancashire, the destination management organisation for Lancashire, is working with Creative England, to help raise the profile of the many unique and photogenic locations and venues available in and around the county, for television and film-makers. Creative England supports creative ideas, talent and businesses in film, TV, games and digital media and, as part […]

More than 30,000 people visited Showzam! Blackpool’s festival celebrating Circus, Magic and New Variety. Showzam! Central, the hub of the celebrations during the 10-day festival, attracted 21,600 people while audiences at the event’s 60 plus ticketed shows and tours attracted in excess of 10,000. And while the figures are pleasing news to VisitBlackpool, the force […]

Ruth Connor, CEO of Marketing Lancashire joins Judith Dugdale head of Moore and Smalley’s leisure and tourism team in Lancashire to discuss the current health of Lancashire’s visitor economy and issues and opportunities for the county’s leisure and tourism businesses.

The Blackpool Tower Eye will be introducing interactive character tours at the very top of The Blackpool Tower as an addition to the experience in conjunction with the 120th Birthday celebration.  We are looking for actors to play the role of Sir John Bickerstaffe, a visionary and inspirational character who played a pivotal role not […]

The Woodland Spa located in Burnley, Lancashire has fought off stiff competition from the best day spas in the UK to win the much coveted title of Day Spa Of The Year at the prestigious Professional Beauty Awards 2014 in London. This comes after the Spa has only just celebrated its first birthday. Despite only […]

The Hemingway family’s Vintage By the Sea Festival, led by Wayne, Gerardine and Jack Hemingway, is to return to Morecambe for a second year on 6th & 7th September. In 2013 the Festival marked The Midland’s 80th anniversary and attracted over 7,000 thousand visitors to the town. The Hemingway team has since been working towards […]