Useful Business Contacts
These are listed in alphabetical order.
- ACAS offers support to improve
employment relations for employers and employees
- Cumbria County
Council website offers information and advice
- Cumbria Business Education Consortium
(CBEC) helps link schools and businesses together for
mutual benefit, help businesses network with other businesses and
schools and assist schools with work experience placements.
- Cumbria Chamber of
Commerce offer an extensive range of member services and
benefits for businesses.
- Cumbria Community
Foundation provides community funding and grants to local
charities and manage grant-making funds on behalf of individuals
and organisations.
- Cumbria Cultural Skills
Partnership helps developing and promoting continuous
professional development, skills and training for Cumbria's
cultural sector and creative industries.
- Cumbria Social
Enterprise Partnership is aimed at growing and
strengthening a dynamic and sustainable social enterprise sector
and to help to create an inclusive and growing Cumbrian
economy.
- Cumbria Strategic
Partnership (CSP) is the countywide partnership in Cumbria
which brings together partners representing the public, private and
third sector organisations in Cumbria. It is responsible, on
behalf of the County Council, for developing a Sustainable
Community Strategy and for developing and implementing the Local
Area Agreement.
- Cumbria Tourism
(CT) - formerly Cumbria Tourist Board is the lead
organisation for tourism in the county.
- Cumbria Vision is strategic
organisation charged with leading the economic regeneration of
Cumbria, bringing together the rural and urban regeneration agendas
to create a county-wide strategy.
- Department for Business Innovation and Skills is
responsible for productivity, business relations, energy,
competition and consumers, with the Better Regulation Executive
(BRE), previously part of the Cabinet Office.
- Direct-Gov On-line
access to public services.
- District Valuation Office is
responsible for setting up business rates and handling
appeals.
- Europe Direct - free
help and advise on anything EU related, from employing non UK
workers, EU funding opportunities and much more from Europe Direct
Cumbria.
- Federation of Small Business offer
an extensive range of member services and benefits for small
businesses.
- Get Safe
Online - offers free objective advice on staying safe
on the internet, supported by the British Government.
- HM Revenues and Customs / Inland
Revenue help and information on Tax and Self Assessment for
individuals and businesses including PAYE, Sick Pay and
Maternity payments.
- Learn Direct provides access to
a wide variety of training courses.
- Learning and Skills
Council are responsible for planning and funding
high-quality vocational education and training for young people and
adults/
- Made in Cumbria provides
practical business services and sales opportunities for Cumbrian
craft, giftware and food producers.
- Manufacturing
Institute provide free diagnostic visits and subsidised project
support to help advance manufacture performance.
- National Business
Register - designed to enable new business starters and
entrepreneurs to decide on which is the best structure for a new
enterprise.
- Northwest Regional Development Agency
(NWDA) is the regional body charged with the economic
development of the North West region including business support,
skills, infrastructure and ICT.
- Prime Time for
Business - Self-Employment Site for the over 50's
- Rural
Community Shops - Site dedicated to promoting and supporting
community shops
-
University of Cumbria
Business Services at the University of Cumbria - offer
various business and graduate placement and scholarship
programmes.
- Young Enterprise provides
young people with the opportunity to gain personal experience of
how business works.
-
Cumbria Business Environment
Network (CBEN) - CBEN website offer free advice, audits
and awards to help businesses across Cumbria with environmental
issues. For further information about CBEN contact Cumbria
Business Environment Network on 01768 891555 or email cben@crea.co.uk
-
Environment
Agency - The Environment Agency job is to look after your
environment and make it a better place. They also provide advice,
grants and support to businesses.
-
Nurture Lakeland - A
not for profit organisation that works with tourism and related
businesses, encouraging both fundraising for landscape
conservation, and the development of environmentally sustainable
practices within the industry in Cumbria.
Page Last Updated: 31 March 2011