By STUART KLOSINSKI, Industrial development manager for Furness Enterprise

Last updated at 12:55, Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Stuart Klosinski explains how the £900k scheme announced this week will create jobs for the area

PUTTING FURNESS FIRST: Stuart Klosinski, industrial development manager at the Furness Enterprise

TODAY marks a new era for delivery of business support throughout Furness.

The peninsula is the only coastal location in northern and north west England to receive a share of the new, national Coastal Communities Fund. Furness receives one of the largest of only six grants awards in clear recognition of Barrow and Furness being a coastal place where emerging opportunities for growth can be realised and individuals “most in need” can be helped to find jobs.

The move gives Furness Enterprise funds to enable it to deliver its “unleashing growth in coastal Furness” programme to deliver 275 new jobs.

As project manager steering the bid to success, I am particularly delighted we can continue to help individuals and businesses throughout Furness.

Individuals will get a new type of support to help them start up new businesses.

Taking the Plunge alerts people who have recently become unemployed to alternatives to seeking a job, namely setting up a business. From the first day they become unemployed, they won’t have to wait months before they can get assistance. They’ll get more than counselling and help to produce a business plan.

Building on our highly successful Job Access service Employer-Employee Partnerships give unemployed people capacity to be job ready.

Businesses throughout Furness will benefit most. New supply chain forums and a Find it in Furness website bring large and small/medium sized firms together to highlight upcoming tender prospects, engage in open supplier discussion focused on stimulating local sourcing and innovative, cost effective supplier relationships.

Coastal Discovery Marketing will deliver national and international promotion of coastal business sites and premises.

It will draw firms into obvious locations; Furness Business Park, the Waterfront in Barrow and east Ulverston. It also promotes individual buildings; Dean Steele’s industrial unit at Ashburner Way in Barrow, for example.

Furness Enterprise Partnership is bouncing back, as your “first choice for business support”. It all starts on September 1.

First published at 12:58, Tuesday, 14 August 2012
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