Dorset Chamber to give businesses a helping hand
Now more than ever there is a need for small and medium businesses to grow.
Now more than ever there is a need for small and medium businesses to grow.
A total of 830 new homes are to be built on the site of Holes Bay power station, which closed in 1994.
An organisation which drives economic growth in Dorset is looking for a new chairman.
The road system in the western part of Wallisdown is set to be improved dramatically.
Seven small businesses in Dorset, which have been significantly affected by COVID-19, have been given a financial helping hand.
To support Covid-19 recovery in Dorset and to secure over 120 jobs in the healthcare sector, Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is investing over £2.28 million of government Local Growth Deal funding towards the creation of a new Histopathology Diagnostic Hub at the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Dorset LEP has secured £11.8m in government funds to help stimulate local economic recovery and create new jobs.
A video conference – one of Dorset Chamber’s new Business Leaders’ Events – produced many shared thoughts on the challenges facing companies and organisations, and the further measures required to help them as the county’s economy emerges from the crisis.
Dorset LEP is to receive government funding to enable the expansion of the Dorset Careers Hub.
During the Covid-19 pandemic more than 123,000 jobs have been supported in Dorset, either by the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) or by the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.