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Cumbria Business Growth Hub is a focal point for businesses looking to increase their competitiveness and grow by offering a great choice of advice, training, funding, networking and more, all tailored to your needs.
If you’re thinking of starting a business, in the process of setting up or relatively new to business, this is a great place to find inspiration, contacts, practical support and useful resources.
Over the years, we've helped 1000s of businesses grow with grant funding. All funding opportunities will be added here as soon as they become live.
Whatever stage you’re at there’s a great range of support available to help you make your business more profitable and competitive – much of it free!
It's our mission to empower Cumbrian businesses and the people who work in them to achieve their full potential.
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18 February 2026
Network with fellow business people in Cumbria to share ideas, experience and promote your business informally over tea/coffee and homemade biscuits at Higham Hall.
Learn more5 March 2026
Come join us for an evening at Tullie House, where you can network with fellow business people to share ideas, experience and promote your business informally.
Learn more17 March 2026
Rosehill Theatre
Come along and enjoy some face-to-face networking, Coffee, Teas & Biscuits at the Rosehill Theatre with stunning views over the Solway as your backdrop - weather permitting!
Learn more16 April 2026
The Melbreak Country House Hotel
You are invited to spend the evening at a Business Bites event and enjoy some relaxed informal networking with nibbles and canapes or maybe some coffee and cake whilst on Tour Coffee Mornings.
Learn moreHigh street banks are disappearing and many businesses are being pushed towards fast, expensive online lending without real advice. In this episode, we speak with James Todhunter from Enterprise Answers about the growing finance advice gap in Cumbria, the risks of “quick fix” funding, and where…
Behind the highlights and beyond the hype. Join a group of young business owners as they talk candidly about the freedom, pressure and purpose that come with building a business early in life. An honest conversation about belief, balance and what success actually feels like.
This month we are joined by one of our advisers Ian Wilson, Managing Director of IW Process Solutions. To celebrate International Manufacturing Day we talk about Ian's Manufacuring experiences and his vision for the future. Ian Wilson is a Lean expert with over twenty years’ experience of…
This month we are joined by Matt Ryder the Principal Lecturer at the University of Cumbria. The topic of our conversation is the opening of the new university campus in Barrow. We discuss the different courses that the university will be running and how the campus community will affect Barrow's…
Keith and Jaqui Jackson are here to talk about their new leadership programme LEAD iT.
