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The popular 'Follow the Thread' weekend is set to return to Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Rossendale. This year's event will take place on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 June from 11am to 5pm and has been organised by the Friends of Helmshore Museum. As well as different textile skills and artists being showcased, many exciting […]

• £5.6m Lancashire Skills Support programme now almost 90% subscribed • Businesses must act quickly to secure workforce training before funding ends A £5.6m programme which offers Lancashire companies access to free workforce training has helped more than 3,300 Lancashire workers gain new skills in just six months. Lancashire Skills Support (LSS), launched in September 2014, now […]

Some of the best creative businesses from across Lancashire are part of a special designer  showcase during the Best of Britannia (BoB) weekend. Creative Lancashire are curating a space to showcase some of the best, new and emerging businesses and individuals from the region, working in collaboration with partners including the BoB team and the Crafts […]

After three hugely successful events in London, the Best of Britannia (BoB) team is travelling north for the first time, to host their exciting 3-day pop-up unique department store in Preston, Lancashire. Taking place from 15th – 17th May in the historic Post Office building and Market Square in the heart of the Lancashire city, […]

The financial failure, last week, of paper giant Robert Horne Group has struck a huge blow to the East Lancashire Railway’s ambitions to restore their Bury Bolton Street Station back to its former glory. The heritage railway’s £100,000 project to re-establish the Victorian style station canopy at the showcase station’s platform 2 is now in […]

A Chorley-based retailer which specialises in outdoor clothing has bolstered its staff skills thanks to help from a £5.6m skills and training programme being delivered across the county. Out of the City, based at Buckshaw Village, has received funding from Lancashire Skills Support for the Workforce (LSS) to enable one of its staff members to […]

Rural businesses in Lancashire will benefit from £4.6m to support employment and growth. The funding will be available for eligible rural businesses located across Lancashire and in neighbouring parts of Greater Manchester. It will help farmers who are seeking to invest in new technologies, diversify or make onsite improvements. Funding will also be available for […]

150 Lancashire businesses celebrated at the sell-out Red Rose Awards in Blackpool, with 24 collecting specially crafted trophies to mark their exceptional business performance. The winners, along with a trio of firms which were highly commended in their categories, were cheered on by a capacity audience of more than 1,100 – filling the vast Winter […]

Thornton-based engineering firm Allan J Hargreaves has invested in up-skilling its workforce thanks to help from a £5.6m skills programme being delivered across the county. The firm, which repairs and maintains construction plant machinery and lifting equipment, has received help from Lancashire Skills Support for the Workforce (LSS) to enable 15 of its staff to […]

Businesses in Lancashire are being urged to act quickly if they want to secure free workforce training as part of the £5.6m Lancashire Skills Support (LSS) programme. It comes as new figures reveal that almost half of the places on the programme have already been filled, just four months after it launched in September 2014. […]

Stanley House Hotel and Spa has become the latest Lancashire business to get free training for its employees as part of a £5.6m workforce skills programme being delivered in the county. The award-winning business, based at Mellor in the Ribble Valley, was able to secure leadership and management training for three new staff members, while […]

On Thursday 6 November, The Blackpool Tower Ballroom proved the magnificent setting for Marketing Lancashire’s annual Lancashire Tourism Awards, where over 600 colleagues from the tourism industry also helped mark the 120th Anniversary of The Blackpool Tower.  The Lancashire Tourism Awards 2014 is Marketing Lancashire’s biggest event to date and was sold out weeks before […]