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When Anne Selby arrived at The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and Merseyside, it was based in a ramshackle shed in Cuerden Valley Park Over the past 29 years Anne has presided over the creation of a chairty that stretches across the whole North West region and includes 37 nature reserves. Millions of people will […]

Its forecast published today shows a gradual increase in the value of inbound tourism during January to March 2021 with a step-change heading into Easter and the spring, if national restrictions are eased as expected, particularly from short-haul European markets. Overall, VisitBritain is forecasting 16.9 million inbound visits in 2021. While this is an increase […]

The Lancashire Wildlife Trust receives grant of £218,000 from the government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund 68 projects have been awarded grants between £62k and £3.8 million to kick-start a pipeline of nature-based projects while creating and retaining jobs First funding round sees £40 million pot allocated, second round of funding to open in early 2021 […]

Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty receives grant of £233,900 from the government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund. ·         68 projects have been awarded grants between £62k and £3.8 million have been awarded by Defra to kick-start a pipeline of nature-based projects while creating and retaining jobs ·         First funding round sees £40 million pot allocated, […]

The Eden Project has received £1.2m from the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to fund the development work needed to prepare a planning application for Eden Project North in Morecambe. The money from the LEP will fund the next stage of the design work, further developing the content of the project and conducting the environmental impact […]

A new joint initiative led by Edge Hill University to support the adoption of productivity-boosting digital technologies in SME manufactures, has officially been launched across the north-west. The Manufacturing Connect (MC) initiative brings together manufacturing, technology and business experts from Edge Hill University, Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (NW), and Manchester Metropolitan University. The UK’s productivity […]

For Lancashire Day 2020 Marketing Lancashire invited the county to share thank you photo messages and virtual hug videos, in a year that has challenged and affected us all. People across the county and beyond responded in their thousands and the hashtag #LancashireDay reached out to a record-breaking 147million* people (compared to 124 million in 2019), in 846 different locations around the […]

Highways work on the University of Central Lancashire’s (UCLan) £200m Masterplan is supporting local SMEs around Preston and the North West. Every penny spent on the supply chain by main highways contractor Balfour Beatty has been awarded to companies based within 40 miles of the construction site in the centre of the University’s Preston Campus, with 96p […]

Morecambe Business Improvement District (BID), in partnership with Lancaster City Council, will be lighting up five of Morecambe’s iconic buildings this year with the technical expertise of Brent Lees, the man behind some of Light Up Lancaster schemes, the Ashton Memorial and The Dukes theatre lighting. The five buildings, all on the promenade are The […]

A group of organisations working to change Lancashire for the better have created more than 20 new jobs and grown their collective turnover by more than 40 per cent while delivering vital community support within the county during the lockdown period. The ten fast-growing social enterprise organisations have gained 31 new projects and contracts worth […]

Lancashire is bidding to become UK City of Culture 2025. It will be the first time that a county-scale cultural programme will compete for the title and the team at Lancashire 2025 needs you, the residents of Lancashire, to help shape a programme that will win this prestigious competition.  Winning will bring about major change […]

A book revealing the changes in and around Morecambe Bay through the observations of former Queen’s Guide to the Sands Cedric Robinson is in the running for a prestigious national award. ‘Sands of Time,’ written by award-winning journalist and author Lindsay Sutton, is on the three-strong shortlist for the British Guild of Travel Writers’ ‘Travel […]