This project will enhance the scope, performance and strategic contribution of the Energy Innovation Centre (EIC).
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) - as the new administrator of the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) – with the support of Government
It is important that the monitoring of outputs is robust and consistent across all projects and programmes. This document provides definitions for each output and advice on when they should be counted.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) are to invest £8.8 million to enable developers English Cities Fund (ECf), with support from Liverpool Vision, to take forward the development of the third and final phase of St Paul’s Square in Liverpool.
Recipients need to understand the rigour with which they will be tested for evidence of compliance with the legal framework governing the use of ERDF funds, and the systems and processes which they will need to establish in order to ensure they are able to provide evidence, at the right time, in support of ERDF-funded activity.
In the Development & Appraisal stage of the application process all ERDF Revenue Projects are required to submit Revenue Breakdown Spreadsheets.
A unique loan fund is set to help even more social enterprises in the region, thanks to a recently awarded grant of £500,000 from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The University of Central Lancashire, (UCLan), has been successful in securing European funding to help regional small to medium sized enterprises, (SMEs), gain access to valuable business support.
The Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Programme is pleased to announce £3.4 million of funding to support the creation of four exciting exhibition spaces at the new Museum of Liverpool.
Recipients of ERDF funding are required to consider guidance on carbon management and incorporate it into the design and delivery of ERDF funded projects.
The current tendering opportunities associated with the ERDF Programme 2007 - 2013 in the Northwest are detailed below. These tenders are not being offered by the NWDA as the Managing Authority for the ERDF Programme, but by the individual project applicants. Therefore we do not accept any responsibility for the content of the documents or the outcome of the tender process.
Liverpool’s public transport network is set to benefit from an investment of over £6 million from the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The ERDF Programme in the Northwest is known as the Northwest Operational Programme (NWOP).
All ERDF-funded projects are required to undertake an Equality Impact Assessment.
All ERDF-funded projects must complete an estimate of their carbon impact using the Online Carbon Calculator.
List of ERDF technical assistance contacts within each of the five sub-regions.
Are you part of a Business Support Project funded by ERDF working with new, fledgling or established businesses?
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) - as the new administrator of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in the Northwest - is pleased to announce the adoption and approval of the Northwest Operational Programme (NWOP) from the European Commission today.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), with support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), has announced a £15m transitional venture capital (VC) & loan fund for businesses in the region, at the Business Finance 09 seminar in Manchester today (Monday 29th June).
The Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Programme is pleased to announce £880,000 of funding to support an exciting programme of major exhibitions at Tate Liverpool over the next three years.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) is pleased to announce that one of the first Merseyside projects to receive an investment from the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2007-13 has been approved.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the Northwest ERDF Programme have launched a new High Growth business support programme designed to help businesses in the region with ‘Starting a High Growth Business' and provide 'Coaching for High Growth’ that will support and grow the Northwest economy.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency and the Northwest ERDF Programme have today launched a new Innovation Voucher scheme to help support and grow the Northwest economy.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Programme have today announced £10m funding to construct a new access road for the Waterfront Business Park, currently under construction in Barrow-in-Furness.
New cycle routes and improved cycling facilities into Liverpool city centre are set to get underway in a bid to encourage more people to consider travelling by bike, thanks to a £640,000 investment from the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
All ERDF-funded projects will be subject to a Project Engagement Visit (PEV), Progress and Evaluation Visit (PAV/Article 13 Visit), Article 16 Visit and other audits. These documents are intended to provide guidance on the requirements, process and types of evidence needed to be kept and presented during these audits.
As a recipient of funds from the ERDF you are contractually bound to adhere to the branding and publicity requirements stated in this guide. Failure to do so may result in the withdrawal of funding.
A new project to speed up the transfer of groundbreaking research and development from the North West Laser Engineering Consortium (NWLEC) to Northwest businesses has been given the go ahead following the confirmation of an £882,000 investment from the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the Northwest ERDF Programme have today announced the launch of the latest round of Innovation Vouchers with the news that 50 additional larger Vouchers will now be available to Northwest businesses.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) will today (15th October) launch the new Manufacturing Strategy and Action Plan for the Northwest. At the same time the NWDA and the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) programme has also confirmed £20m of new funding for the enhanced Northwest Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS Northwest).
The Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Programme is pleased to announce £2.4 million of funding to support a unique programme of marketing activity to boost the region’s visitor economy over the next three years.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) programme have today confirmed funding for the North West Aerospace Supply Chain Excellence Programme 2 (ASCE).
A road corridor improvement scheme to improve linkages between Edge Lane and Liverpool city centre has been awarded a £1.5 million investment from the Northwest European Regional Development (ERDF) programme.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have today (11th December 2009) agreed to launch a new £100m fund to finance urban development projects across the Northwest of England. The NWDA expects these projects to create/safeguard several thousand jobs.
The OJEU thresholds for public procurement have changed from 1 January 2010.
These thresholds apply to all publicly-funded projects, including ERDF projects.
This project has been allocated £417,000 of ERDF funding to enhance the welcome, attractiveness and accessibility of the gateway underground stations to Liverpool city centre.
The Museum of Liverpool is due to open in 2011. ERDF will be spent on the exhibitions and interpretation in order for the museum to explore the extraordinary and complex story of Liverpool within the context of the wider region and the big national and international themes that shaped the city and other British cities.
Investment of £6.3million in digital media hub, The Sharp Project, is being granted by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) on behalf of a new holding company Northwest Business Finance Ltd (NWBF) can today announce the structure of the new long term Venture Capital and Loan Fund (VCLF) for the Northwest which will be one of the largest public sector VCLF in Europe and the largest in the UK. On the same day the first investment has been made from the Interim VCLF.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) with support from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is today (31st March 2010) launching a Call for Expressions of Interest (EoI) with the aim of selecting two Urban Development Fund(s) (UDF) to receive resources from the North West Urban Investment Fund under the JESSICA initiative for the Northwest region of England.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is delighted to announce the first Interim Loan awards just days after the first Interim equity investment was announced.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) today confirmed funding of £3.1 million to kick-start the development of a new Science Discovery Centre at Manchester’s famous Jodrell Bank Observatory.
Northwest Business Finance Ltd (NWBF) with support from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) can today (15th June 2010) announce the successful fund managers for The North West Fund.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) have approved £8.1m to support the growth of one of the regions priority sectors.
A derelict Grade II listed building in Dingle, Liverpool, is to be given a new lease of life following confirmation of £1.5 million investment from the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) today confirmed over £1½ million of investment to help boost Carlisle’s appeal as a heritage tourism destination.
Liverpool Innovation Park (LIP) operator Space North West is investing £2.5 million, matched with £1.42 million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), to create a new networking hub and business gateway to its Edge Lane site.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) is pleased to announce the appointment of David Malpass as the agency’s new Director of European Programme.
To encourage private sector investment in the strategic sites and 'pump prime' investments in deprived areas and target communities, as defined in the NWOP and associated investment frameworks, it has been agreed to accept a limited number of applications that deliver the above type of project.
To encourage private sector investment in the strategic sites and 'pump prime' investments in deprives areas and target communities, as defined in the NWOP and associated investment frameworks, it has been agreed to accept a limited number of applications that deliver public realm improvements.
The Northwest Urban Investment Fund (NWUIF) is a new £100 million fund to help support urban development projects in England’s Northwest.
Both the General Election & Local Elections are taking place on 6th May 2010 and the NWDA is now in the Purdah period for these elections.
ENWORKS, the Northwest environmental business support service, has received approval for a £9.9 million investment to extend its existing service and continue to offer specialist support to the region’s SMEs until 2013.
Corridor Manchester is set to begin its ambitious transformation of the public spaces on the Corridor – the Oxford Road area of Manchester with the announcement to be made at international property exhibition MIPIM (15 – 19 March 2010, Cannes, France) that it has secured £5.1 million funding for the first phases which will be completed in 2010.
Businesses in the North West could soon be taking advantage of a little-understood technology previously consigned to prototype manufacturing.
We are currently inviting Expressions of Interest for renewable energies and energy efficiency actions in housing projects under AA2-1.
We are currently inviting project applications under AA 2.2 strands 3 and strand 4 to support the delivery of science and innovation projects in England’s Northwest.
A new £100m fund has been set up to help support urban development projects in England’s Northwest. This Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas (JESSICA) initiative will be branded in the region as the Northwest Urban Investment Fund.
The Northwest Urban Investment Fund (NWUIF) is a new £100 million fund to help support urban development projects in England’s Northwest.
The fund is a Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas (JESSICA) initiative. This is a new financial instrument created by the European Commission in conjunction with the European Investment Bank.
The focus of the project is Blackpool Seafront Parade 5, situated between Central Pier and the emerging Tower Festival Headland. It is the next phase of public realm works for the Central Seafront Development Scheme in Blackpool.
The focus of the project is Blackpool Seafront Parade 5, situated between Central Pier and the emerging Tower Festival Headland. It is the next phase of public realm works for the Central Seafront Development Scheme in Blackpool.
SMEs in the Northwest’s medical technology sector are set to benefit from a £816,000 investment that will enable Medilink North West to increase its resources and support for the sector.
An offer of £100,000 Grant for Research & Development (GRAND) has been awarded to a Preston based company to design a ‘smart glass’ enclosure for microscopes for use in bioscience experiments, where a controlled environment is essential.
Construction work has just started on a £7 million refurbishment of the Main Building at MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry) in Manchester.
The region’s aerospace sector is set to benefit from a new centre for virtual engineering at Daresbury Laboratory, following the confirmation of a £5.3 million investment.
The Chapel Street Project is a key element of the Salford Central area, which is one of the five priority regeneration programmes identified in the Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company’s Regeneration Framework and in its annual Business Plan.
LOCAL Member of Parliament Louise Ellman took time out earlier this month to survey the progress being made on the multi-million pound development of the brand new Womens International Centre for Economic Development (WICED).
Urban regeneration company, New East Manchester has announced that work will start today, Monday 6 September, on site preparation of a 17 acre plot (6.88 hectares) at Eastlands next to the City of Manchester stadium.
Waste Management, Recycling and Technology Industries in the Northwest are set to benefit from the expansion of a highly successful project that will coordinate and deliver a range of activities to promote sustainable production and consumption in business.
Construction businesses across England’s Northwest will benefit from a new £6 million ‘knowledge hub’ aimed at honing the regions’ competitiveness, increasing productivity and helping them respond to the threats and opportunities posed by climate change.
Businesses in England’s Northwest have been given a further boost with £2.3 million approved for the Low Carbon Market Development Programme.
This project will enhance and expand the current scale and scope of services and activities being delivered by Envirolink Northwest within the Northwest Environmental Technologies and Services (ETS) Cluster Development Programme.
The project will undertake public realm improvement work on three sites along Oldham Road, a strategic economic corridor which links Rochdale town centre and Kingsway Business Park. The project will enhance the image and perception of the area and foster greater pride, in turn stimulating private sector investment and increasing values. Public realm improvement work delivered through this project will include new, hard and soft landscaping, tree planting and other related improvements.
The next Cycling Sunday in Speke will be an excursion along the country lanes around Hale to Pickerings Pasture and Spike Island, on Sunday 7 March.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) is granting £10.76million to launch the redevelopment of the Chapel Street area in Salford.
‘Innovation’ will be the focus of a two-day European conference heading for Manchester Central in December this year which will un-lock the requirements and open the door to projects seeking a share of a €355m European Programme.
A ground-breaking new international women’s business centre is to be built in Liverpool – the first of its kind globally.
What is the project? The historic city of Carlisle has been identified as a strategic priority for heritage-based tourism infrastructure and product development in sub-regional and regional strategies.
This call requesting Expressions of Interest for Action Area 1.2 Strand 2 is designed to attract projects to provide tailored and highly targeted support to businesses and supply chains, in the following priority sectors:
A £100,000 Grant for Research and Development (GRAND) has been awarded to Manchester based biotechnology company Ai2, to research a new use for their peptide-based product for contact lenses, using it in a hydrogel for wound dressings.
A £146,191 Grant for Research and Development has been awarded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) to Reaxa Limited based in Blackley, Manchester.
Nearly 3000 businesses will be assisted over the lifetime of the project run across the Northwest by ENWORKS, a well established, not-for-profit organisation. The funding will allow ENWORKS to deliver a regional comprehensive environmental business support programme linked into Business Link Northwest.
The North West Science Fund project “North West Laser Engineering Consortium” (NWLEC) has transformed laser materials research in the Northwest.
Friday 5 March sees the official opening of the People’s History Museum in Manchester with the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP. The museum is a unique centre which explores many of the world-changing ideas fought for by the working people of Britain and charts the history of democracy from the early 18th century to date.
As part of the Northwest Regional Development Agency’s (NWDA) Grant for Research and Development (GRAND Award), the first £18,878 Proof of Market grant has been awarded to start up company Qualoria Ltd.
Commercial Property Developers Redsun Developments Ltd has just completed a major industrial project in Wirral and has already secured a hi-tech Wirral based company as anchor tenant for the scheme.
We are currently inviting Expressions of Interest under Strand 4 of Action Area 2-2.
£650,000 has been awarded in the latest round of the Northwest Transitional Loan Fund (TLF); helping businesses from across the region obtain business finance in the absence of conventional commercial sources.
The purpose of this project is to stimulate and support regional SMEs to invest in carbon reduction technologies through the provision of grant funding.
Catalyst Science Discovery Centre and Museum (‘Catalyst’) is an award-winning specialist science education and visitor centre run by an independent regional charitable trust.
This project will upgrade a significant bus corridor connecting Liverpool city centre with St Helens to improve access into the city centre.
The focus of this project is to enhance the Business Link Northwest service by developing and implementing an Innovation Specialist brokerage service providing information, diagnosis and brokerage support on innovation-related business issues.
This project is a road corridor improvement scheme to improve linkages between Edge Lane and Liverpool City Centre.
A three year targeted support programme to deliver enhanced business growth in the region.
This project, a partnership of five universities in the region, will help graduates to be more enterprising and potentially become successful enterpreneurs by connecting them with an Enterprise Champion.
This project will upgrade a significant bus corridor connecting Liverpool city centre with Allerton, Aigburth, Speke and Liverpool John Lennon Airport to improve access into the city centre.
This project will upgrade a significant bus corridor connecting Liverpool city centre with Kensington, Old Swan, Dovecot, Page Moss, Huyton, Prescot, Whiston, Rainhill, Widnes and St Helens to improve access into the city centre.
This project will enhance the gateway station to Liverpool’s waterfront and the western areas of the city centre, including Liverpool ONE.
This project will deliver high quality public realm at Liverpool Lime Street Station - a major gateway to the city centre.
The aim of this project is to construct a public sector-led purpose designed Managed Workspace Facility on the site of the former British Industrial Plastics factory in Maryport, Cumbria.
This project offers international trade support to Northwest companies.
This project will deliver 10,219 sq m of Grade A office space in the Commercial District in Liverpool City Centre.
This project will focus on a number of areas in the context of Rapid Manufacturing (RM), including suitability for implementation in SMEs (particularly in the supply chains of Northwest industry sectors, such as aerospace, biomedical, nuclear, and energy and environmental technologies), design functionality for bespoke part manufacture, and part consolidation and optimisation in the RM process.
The major exhibitions programme at TATE Liverpool will deliver three major international summer exhibitions, one per year for three years, starting in 2009 by working with MOMA, New York, to bring ‘Colour Chart’ to the UK.
The aim of these works is to significantly improve the environment, image and identity of the area which now includes key destinations like the Contemporary Urban Centre, which welcomes visitors from around the globe.
A new £5 million access road to serve Waterfront Business Park in Barrow has been officially opened by town MP, the Rt Hon John Hutton.
Two of Blackpool’s most iconic visitor attractions, Blackpool Tower and the Winter Gardens complex, are to get a major facelift and redevelopment as part of a groundbreaking £38.9 million project, joint Communities and Business Minister Rosie Winterton announced today.
This project will enable Baltic Creative to purchase property assets on a long-term lease and manage the estate within the Baltic Triangle.
This projects aims to continue with the second phase of works within Nelson Town Centre. These include surfacing improvements, new lighting, street furniture and road realignment. This will facilitate the introduction of West to East traffic flow for cars along currently pedestrianised sections of Manchester Road and Leeds Road. It will also allow for the creation of new parking spaces on Leeds Road, including disabled parking spaces at both ends.
The LCR Sector Investment project is a major collaborative programme to attract new investment from UK and international companies into Merseyside.
This project aims to design a centre, the Education, Innovation and Enterprise Centre, which is able to provide business support that is responsive to employers needs and which can support both employer-led curriculum development and outreach delivery.
This project will see the development of a former colliery site in Haydock and the first phase development of a new office-based business park on an adjacent brownfield site.
Phase 4 of Atlantic Park will include site preparation and infrastructure works (including new site roads, drainage, services, landscaping and off-site junction improvements) to bring forward 9.2 hectares of development land which has the potential to provide approximately 45,000 m² of office and industrial space.
The Solutions for Business globalisation product ‘Accessing International Markets’ will provide support to Northwest SMEs to trade internationally. This product is one of 29 Solutions for Business products and aims to help companies to implement their plans to either become exporters or to enter new overseas markets.
Open Call: AA 4-2 Project Ideas
England's Northwest is fully committed to maximising the opportunities associated with European funding and engagement.
This conference provides an opportunity for delegates to find out about two key areas of European activity - European funding and transnational projects.
The purpose of this project is to stimulate and support regional SMEs to invest in carbon reducing technologies through the provision of grant funding, which will lead to reduced future carbon dioxide emissions.
This is a partnership project led by Cheshire and Warrington Economic Alliance in their capacity as sub-regional economic development partnership for Cheshire & Warrington. The project has been designed to address barriers that SME’s in the sub-region face surrounding recruitment.
IDEAS@Daresbury (Innovation Design Entrepreneurship and Science) is an exciting new partnership between the three leading Business/Management Schools of the Northwest – from the universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster, along with ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University’s creative design research lab, further supported by the Science &Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus (Daresbury SIC).
Businesses need to innovate to remain competitive in the face of current global challenges. This project is a voucher scheme that will work with businesses who do not normally engage with the knowledge base, with the aim of resolving issues which would increase productivity and/or competitiveness.
This project will support the development and implementation of Proof Of Concept (POC) funding for early stage high technology, or aspiring high technology SMEs as part of the new DIUS descriptor for Grant for Research and Development.
This project will upgrade a significant bus corridor connecting Liverpool city centre and Bootle with Walton, Fazakerley, Old Roan, Maghull and Kirkby to improve access into the city centre
This project seeks to overcome real and perceived barriers to making journeys by bike.
The aim of the project is to increase the market for renewable energy in the region and to help grow the renewable energy companies within the environmental technologies sector.
This project is designed to create and deliver a sector development programme for the Maritime industry on Merseyside that will support productivity, business growth and job creation and so help enhance the competitiveness of the sub-region both nationally and internationally.
This project supports new and existing businesses in the biomedical sector, enabling health technology products to reach the market quicker, thus generating earlier income, jobs and improving regional growth and Gross Value Added.
This project will provide support and guidance for construction businesses in the Northwest helping them to become more productive, cost effective and efficient, whilst reducing their environmental impact.
Established in response to the current economic downturn, the Transitional Loan Fund programme enables businesses to obtain finance in the absence of conventional commercial sources.
The Waterfront Business Park Barrow Access Road forms part of the Barrow-in-Furness Masterplan. The strategic aim of the Masterplan is to diversify the area’s economic base and develop the town’s role as an economic, civic and cultural centre for the wider South Cumbrian economy.
This ambitious project builds on the achievements of the current North West Manufacturing Advisory Service. It aims to significantly reduce the GVA gap and will be delivered from a regional centre during the period 2009 – 2013.
Northwest Vision and Media will provide a Business Collaboration Network to deliver specialist sector support to compliment existing activity currently available through Business Link Northwest. The project will focus on the immediate survival and sustainability of digital and creative businesses during the current recession, and achieving growth potential.
This project will: deliver TravelWise: a bespoke support package to key visitor economy locations to enable development of Travel Plan to achieve sustainable transport access; create an innovative cycle hire scheme increasing access for visitors by bicycle; work directly with the tourism sector to develop on-line travel information on the websites of visitor economy locations across Merseyside, including attractions and accommodation; and improve pedestrian and cycle access to key coastal and visitor attractions.
Liverpool Biennial is one of the UK’s leading public art commissioning agencies, with an international reputation for its delivery of the UK’s Biennial every two years. This project consists of two elements, The Canal Programme, a series of residencies, artworks and community engagement in North Liverpool, and the 6th Liverpool Biennial festival. This will showcase an international exhibition and an integrated marketing campaign.
The redevelopment of Manchester’s Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) to provide better facilities for customers and to encourage more visitors to the region.
The Regional Marketing Culture & Heritage project is a tourism marketing campaign aimed at increasing visitor spend and boosting tourism in the region. The project will increase visitor spending through focussed promotion of the region’s three key themes – Industrial Powerhouse, Lake District Outdoors and Garden’s of Distinction.
The project aims to create a world class Virtual Engineering Centre which will be staffed by highly experienced Virtual Engineering Engineers and will build on a strong public and private sector partnership.
A project focused on linking people and jobs.
This is a project designed to reflect and support the priorities of the emerging Multi-Area Agreement for the Liverpool city region and the City Employment Strategy Pathfinder.
ASCE2 has been designed to build on the success of the ASCE1 programme. Its key aim is to provide the conditions and infrastructure for the Northwest aerospace supply chain to develop into a world-class integrated cluster capable of competing globally. It represents the essential next stage in the development of the cluster. The programme will be selective and support will be targeted towards areas of the supply chain where the Northwest is in a strong competitive position.
The Innovation Economy Centre is a business facility focused on making a significant impact on business productivity and wider economic benefits throughout the region. The Centre will encourage a synergy between businesses, academics and existing business support agencies.
To develop a centre for biopharmaceuticals that will enforce the Northwest’s reputation as the ‘go to’ location for biopharmaceuticals across the UK and globally, as well as providing a facility for advanced biopharmaceutical methods to be developed.
MediaCityUK plans to establish an international hub of digital creativity and business. A key objective of MediaCityUK is to provide support and accommodation for businesses across the media sector. This will be enabled by a Media Enterprise Centre (MEC), which will be located within MediaCityUK.
The proposal is to develop the former Thermal Ceramics site which will result in the reclamation and redevelopment of brownfield land classified as vacant but useable.
This project is designed to further improve the visitor economy in the Liverpool city region.
This Loan Fund provides loans of between £3,000 and £50,000 for individuals, small business owners, social enterprises and start-up enterprises wishing to consolidate or expand their business activity, but who have been unable to secure all or part of their finance requirements from either conventional bank lending or the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme (EFG).
The social enterprise sector consists of new and established organisations that have huge potential through mutual support and skills/knowledge transfer.
As part of the ongoing development of the sector, the NWDA will work with the Social Enterprise North West Ltd to deliver a series of activities that develop and strengthen the existing networks and partnerships across the region.
This project will ensure that the profile of Liverpool and Merseyside as a whole is maintained, and that key visitors including day visitors are attracted to future events. This will maintain the lasting legacy from the hugely successful Capital of Culture year and continue to grow the visitor economy.
This project will ensure that additional power provision is made across the Estuary Commerce Park estate to enable the future marketing of the regionally strategic employment site.
This project aims to improve the competitiveness of manufacturing SMEs within the region (typically tier 2 and 3 suppliers) to become competitively engaged with the global automotive supply chain.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) involve the formation of a partnership between a business enterprise and an academic institution to achieve the transfer of skills and expertise from academia to business enterprises. The aim of the KTP programme is to enable business to improve competitiveness, productivity and innovation through the understanding, sharing and use of the knowledge, technology and skills transferred from academic institutions.
Provision of business support to improve the impact and rate of adoption of resource efficiency technologies, systems and processes, with a particular focus on delivery to specific priority sectors, high growth companies and companies with high resource efficiency opportunities.
This project offers a unique solution to provide the regional SME community with a comprehensive business support programme through supported knowledge exchange intervention. This will increase business innovation and have a direct measurable impact on productivity and overall business performance.
SMEs looking to invest in the latest Renewable Heat Technologies are being given a helping hand by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) as part of the £4.3 million Grant for Improving Your Resource Efficiency.
The Exchange Greengate project comprises an acquisition programme and capital funding for the delivery of a high-quality public realm scheme and infrastructure works.
The project will deliver public realm improvements in Liverpool's Commercial District.
This project will deliver public realm improvements in the Mount Pleasant area of Liverpool, a key part of the Knowledge Quarter.
This project will create a flagship initiative for the Women’s International Centre for Economic Development (WICED). It will involve the development of a 2,010 sq m facility within the Baltic Triangle area of Liverpool.
This project will introduce and integrate the delivery of a new Access to Finance specialist brokerage service to the existing core brokerage services available to SME businesses across the region from Business Link Northwest.
As part of the Northwest Climate Change Action Plan, the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) is offering Small to Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) the chance to access a £2 million of Grant funding to develop and demonstrate innovative technologies that reduce carbon emissions.
Cheshire based Carbon Ceramics Ltd makes its entrance into the green materials market place with the support of a Grant for Research and Development awarded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA).
Funding for this project will secure the long-term future of the area by rejuvenating tourism and ensuring that Blackpool maintains its status as the UK’s leading resort.
The project lies within the Bolton Innovation Zone, identified as a strategic investment site within the European Investment Framework. The project encompasses three distinct elements, including the construction of a new site access road, a new pedestrian footbridge and additional public realm treatments.
The aim of this project is to improve coastal defences, connect the new promenade spaces to the foreshore and create five new headlands linked together by parades.
This project aims to support further economic growth in Manchester by enhancing Sportcity as a world-class destination for sport.
This project will convert a 1930s office building into a ‘third sector business support centre’ providing bespoke work areas for social enterprises and other third sector organisations.
The project will provide 250 high-quality, ‘graduate-level’ internships, for approximately six months, to sub-regional SMEs.
This project is seeking to drive up productivity through initiatives that accelerate new business formations and enable businesses to develop skills.
The purpose of this project is to stimulate and develop the higher-added-value sub-sectors of the region’s food and drink economy, while ensuring a safe and sustainable environment in which to grow.
Through the Innovation for Growth project Lancaster University will deliver a programme of high-quality knowledge exchange that will embed innovation within the business management processes and practices of regional SMEs. This aims to drive improved performance, productivity and growth.
The purpose of this project is to raise the quality of the region’s visitor and tourism offer by creating a visitor destination that will attract people to the area and increase visitor spend. This will increase the number of jobs in the local area and have a positive economic impact.
CYCLE Speke’s latest Sunday bike ride, on 4 July, provides a chance to explore the Mersey Estuary.
Business Start Up Phase II follows on directly from the previous Northwest Business Start Up provision, which ended in March 2009.
The Florence Institute (The Florrie) is a Grade II listed former boys’ institute, in the Toxteth /Dingle area of Liverpool. Currently in a state of disrepair, the building represents an important opportunity to provide community facilities, local services and managed workspace for the surrounding area.
The concept is to create a high-quality, multi-functional space that is suitable for established digital businesses to flourish and for small-scale companies to grow in order to drive forward Manchester’s position as a creative city forward.
The abandoned Gardens and ruined Castle, near Penrith in the Lake District National Park, will be transformed from a dangerous and inaccessible wreck to a high-quality destination that will change perceptions of Cumbria’s visitor offering. It will not only benefit visitors to the area, but it will also be of benefit to local people and their communities.
This project will make Jodrell Bank a key tourist attraction while showcasing the science and research expertise to encourage the next generation of scientists within the region.
This project involves the development of a 7.3 hectare brownfield site, located adjacent to the A627M into Rochdale town centre, to provide a high quality, mixed use business park.
This project aims to create 1,629 sq m of refurbished office accommodation within the main building at Liverpool Innovation Park. It will also create new car parking space, a main entrance and reception area with a canopy, meeting pods, a refurbished covered walk way, toilet facilities and landscaping to link the entrance with the linear park.
This project involves the development of a 7.3 hectare brownfield site, located adjacent to the A627M into Rochdale town centre, to provide a high quality, mixed use business park.
Top Northwest Universities launch New Partnership Initiative Promoting Innovation to regional SMEs.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) is planning to set up a EUR 50 million (GBP 46 million) JESSICA holding fund in cooperation with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support projects that will help regenerate sustainable development in the North West’s urban areas.
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson gave the go-ahead for a new £35m Business Start Up programme for the Northwest, during a visit to the region today.
Each Action Area is driven by a comprehensive Investment Framework which details the types of activity to be funded and identifies the types of organisations that are best placed to deliver such projects. NWOP funding is allocated in accordance with these Investment Frameworks.
Over £2m has been earmarked from the Northwest Regional Development Agency’s (NWDA), Grant for Research and Development (GRAND) programme over the next two years to help companies test the commercial potential of an idea a technology innovative new product, process or service.
Over £3m to help place the region on the world stage for sustainable innovation
Envirolink Northwest is proud to be the main sponsor for BWEA31. As the organisation responsible for delivering the Northwest Regional Development Agency’s (NWDA) cluster development strategy for the region’s energy and environmental technologies and services (ETS) sector, Envirolink Northwest supports the development of the renewable energy sector in England’s Northwest.
The public realm works in Ancoats, east Manchester, have won the Landscape Institute’s Urban Design and Master Planning 2009 Award.
The NWTVCEII project involves the continuation and extension of a highly successful project that co-ordinates and delivers a suite of activities to support development of the waste management, recycling and technology industries within the Northwest.
The People’s History Museum in Manchester explores the world changing events led by the working people of Britain.
Two overgrown and untidy sites that have been prone to littering are getting a major improvement as part of the ‘Brighter Futures’ regeneration of the Oldham Road and canal side area.
After 22 years of service in the Main Building at MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester) the ramps which started the prestigious career of architect Ian Simpson are currently being dismantled and taken out, as part of the Museum’s £7million redevelopment. Small sections of the ramps will be created into limited edition collector’s items as a unique souvenir from MOSI, at the end of the project.
The Mini car which millions of people have lifted in MOSI’s (Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester) interactive Xperiment gallery, was lowered out of the gallery yesterday, as part of the £7m Main Building redevelopment.
This project will encourage business innovation within SMEs. It will seek to harness and create a direct mechanism for access to the knowledge, expertise and the significant resource available at InfoLab21 – Lancaster University’s ICT Centre of Excellence.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) has awarded four ‘Proof of Market Grants’ to the value of £79,146 to companies throughout the region.
This project will work across all priority business sectors to improve their performance by better exploiting the specific market demand for mainstream (rather than niche/specialist) products and services which have reduced/minimal environmental impact by virtue of their design, raw materials, manufacture, use, application, reuse and disposal.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) has awarded a £100,000 Grant for Research and Development to Cubic Motion to research a new technology that would revolutionise the way facial animation is created within the digital media industry.
The redevelopment work at MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester) was inspected by one of its youngest visitors this week, when eight year-old Holly Smallbone of Sale was invited on an exclusive hard hat tour of the site with the Museum’s Director, Tony Hill.
Isis Forensics, a Lancaster University spin out company based in InfoLab21, with the support of the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and InfoLab21’s Knowledge Business Centre, has launched a £54,000 Research and Development project to develop next generation child protection technologies that can be run on mobile phones.
Business leaders from some of Merseyside’s foremost Maritime Sector companies gathered together last week to hear sector representative organisation Mersey Maritime set out its plans for the future.
Recycled materials will be a key theme in the newly-developed main building at MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester) when it opens to the public later this year. Recycled concrete, steel, wood fibre, banknotes and tiles are amongst the materials reused by the Museum in its £7million makeover, and these will be demonstrated in an interactive trail about recycling throughout the main building.
Work to transform former brownfield sites in Haydock is now underway. A new business development, Empress Park and an industrial zone at Boston Park, home to a former colliery site, will pave the way for over 2,000 jobs.
The design contract for a showcase new interactive gallery at MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester) has been awarded to London-based design company kin.
Improvements to the appearance of two run down sites in Rochdale have provided a major boost to businesses and helped stamp out anti-social behaviour.
Visitor attractions in Rossendale will be buzzing this summer thanks to the Rossendale Tour Buzz.