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The Chair of the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership, Steve Fogg, has welcomed the Chancellor’s announcement yesterday to offer loans of between £2,000 and £50,000 to micro and small businesses affected by Covid-19, saying ”I am delighted the Government has listened to businesses and extended the existing loan scheme to offer a 100% loan guarantee of up […]

The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has launched a single webpage with full details of all the latest help and support for businesses affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. The LEP has included signposts to all the relevant and current information on the webpage www.lancashirelep.co.uk/covid-19 to make it easy for employers to find out about the support […]

Lancashire head-quartered,Northern food retailer, Booths, has launched a campaign to support British artisan cheesemakers who are struggling to cope with the Covid-19 crisis. Graham Kirkham is one of the last makers of farmhouse Lancashire cheese in the country and makes his multi award-winning cheeses near Goosnargh. Overnight, he saw 60% of his markets disappear as […]

Some of Preston’s best venues have teamed up together to stage ‘Preston At Night Live’, a virtual day and night party on Saturday 25th April. Spearheaded by Preston At Night, a brand managed by the city’s BID, the online event will feature 12-hours of eclectic music from DJ’s who regularly perform at the city’s most […]

Wildlife charity WWT, which runs Martin Mere Wetland Centre in Lancashire, launches its new online ‘wild’ home learning hub to help hard pressed parents teach their primary school aged children key parts of the science curriculum. New resources, covering different conservation science themes, will be released weekly on a Monday morning during lockdown. WWT has […]

A record eight Lancashire-based businesses have been awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, announced on Her Majesty’s birthday (21 April). The Awards, now in their 54th year are the most prestigious business awards in the country, celebrating excellence in innovation, international trade. sustainable development, promoting opportunity through social mobility. The Chair of the Lancashire Enterprise […]

Employees from BAE Systems sites across Lancashire are continuing to ramp up efforts to donate vital Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the NHS, with the aim of delivering more than 145,000 face shields to the frontline in the coming weeks. All BAE Systems industrial-scale 3D printers, including at its site in Samlesbury, Lancashire, are now […]

The Covid-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges for all businesses especially within the hospitality sector in Lancashire and beyond. While many restaurants, hotels and eating/drinking establishments have closed, The Best Western Lothersdale Hotel in Morecambe has remained open. Working with various local and government authorities, The Lothersdale is providing accommodation for many key workers who […]

Local artist Gillian Wood set up the Fylde Coast Scrub Hub just over a week and a half ago to help local front-line NHS workers who have faced a scrubs shortage due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Hub uses donations to buy material and distributes it to local volunteer sewers to make up scrubs in […]

Two University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) engineering lecturers have teamed up to make potentially life-saving equipment for coronavirus patients from their homes. Dr Steve Sigurnjak, a senior lecturer in electronic engineering, and Dr Matthew Dickinson, a senior lecturer in mechanical engineering, have designed and created three brackets which will allow breathing masks to be attached […]

A Lancashire emergency Fund has been created to support those in most need across the county during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Community Foundation for Lancashire (CFL) – which is managing all donations received to the Fund, ensuring they reach the most vulnerable people affected by the coronavirus – is working in partnership with the National […]

Volunteers from Inspiring Grace and staff from Pendle Leisure Trust are putting together food parcels in a bid to stop Pendle’s vulnerable residents going hungry. Morrison’s in Nelson, Tesco in Burnley, Nelson and Colne College – but most of all, the general public – have donated much-needed food for those unable to shop for themselves. […]