The project will create jobs through a holistic & flexible programme entitled ''Unleashing Growth in Coastal Furness.'' It aims to drive sustainable economic growth within the coastal community by creating an innovation network for product development to enable new markets to be opened up, stimulating the supply chains of existing local businesses, providing support to new start businesses, working with the unemployed to make them more job ready and acting as a match maker between employee and potential employee and leading a coastal discovery marketing scheme to attract companies to the Waterfront Business Park in Barrow.

Award: £900,000

Local Authority: Barrow-In-Furness