A Lake District networking event has picked up two new sponsors.

Chartered surveyors Edwin Thompson and NXT Recruitment will join the Cumberland Building Society as sponsors of LA23NET.

The group brings businesspeople from the South Lakes and beyond together for regular networking events.

PR company Flock has run LA23NET for the last three years.

The network now includes over six hundred businesspeople with up to two hundred attending the events.

The two new businesses will become official sponsors from the start of the new LA23NET season which runs from September 2019 to June 2020.

Grant Seaton, of the Cumberland Building Society, will continue as chair of the group.

He said: “As LA23NET continues to grow and evolve it is the right time to introduce additional support for the network.

"Both NXT Recruitment and Edwin Thompson are well respected and knowledgeable Cumbrian businesses and I have no doubt they will enhance the network and benefit from being associated with it.”

John Haley, partner at Edwin Thompson, said: “It’s true that Cumbria is a fantastic place to live and do business but getting people together from across such a geographically dispersed county can be tricky.

"LA23NET does a wonderful job of bringing the county together and as Edwin Thompson operate countywide it was a natural fit for us to support LA23NET.”