Including Barrow-in-Furness, Kendal and Penrith
As of 1 November 2026, 285 schemes are open to businesses in Westmorland and Furness; 1 of them is only for Westmorland and Furness or Cumbria. Updated 1 Nov 2026.
In October 2026, no scheme only for Westmorland and Furness or Cumbria opened or closed.
What opened and closed across the North West this monthTalk to someone in Westmorland and Furness
Schemes for Westmorland and Furness alone, not for the whole of Cumbria.
Visit Eden
A small tourism marketing grant of up to £500 per project for tourism-related projects, events and activities that add value to the visitor offer or the visitor economy of Westmorland and Furness.
Open to businesses anywhere in Cumbria, Westmorland and Furness included.
River Capital
Debt finance from £25,000 to £100,000 for new or growing businesses in the North West.
Boost Business Lancashire, 3D360 Printer
Free or subsidised online and in-person training in advanced manufacturing topics such as 3D printing, robotics and AI, for employed, self-employed and other learners in Lancashire.
Local services that help businesses in Westmorland and Furness. Each number is from the organisation's own website.
Advice, training, funding, networking and start-up help for businesses across Cumbria.
Cumbria Accelerator (Cumbria Combined Authority)
Fully funded one-to-one advice for established SMEs across Cumbria, from the Combined Authority.
Invest in Westmorland and Furness (Westmorland and Furness Council)
Helps businesses start, grow or relocate in Westmorland and Furness, with funding and property search.
Your chamber of commerce: Cumbria Chamber of Commerce (01228 534120)
For the whole region or the North, Westmorland and Furness included. The soonest to close first.
Support programme · Open all year
Investment · Open all year
Loan · Open all year
Loan · Open all year
Support programme · Open all year
Loan · Open all year
Support programme · Open all year
Membership or network · Open all year
Loan · Open all year
Loan · Open all year
Open to businesses across England or the UK, including Westmorland and Furness.
Open to businesses in Westmorland and Furness, local and national, soonest first.
What it does, how long it has been going, how many people work there, what it needs help with and what it is looking for: the best matches in Westmorland and Furness come first.
In-person events in the next 30 days in Westmorland and Furness, then within about five miles of it. 58 online events are open to anyone.
No in-person events found in or near Westmorland and Furness in the next 30 days.
Events for Westmorland and Furness, week by weekOnline events
Coworking spaces, incubators and workspaces a business can use, and venues to hire for a meeting, training day or event, each from its own website. Those with a known address are dots on the map below.
Studios and workshops · Sedbergh · Studios are priced between £140-£370 per month.
Studios, meeting rooms, training rooms and labs or workshops
Coworking space · Barrow-in-Furness · Desk for a Day £17.50 +VAT; Membership desk once a month £10 +VAT per month (minimum 6 month term)
Hot desks, dedicated desks, meeting rooms and private offices
Managed offices · Kendal · Annual rental prices start at £19 sq/ft, including service charges, utilities, and premises insurance.
Private offices
Conference centre · Penrith · Pink Room and Green Room: full day £300+ VAT, half day £250 + VAT.
Meeting rooms, event space, catering and hot desks
Meeting rooms to hire · Staveley · Full day room hire £140+VAT; half day room hire £80+VAT; hot-desking per day £18+VAT; 5 days a month £81+VAT
Hot desks, meeting rooms, training rooms and catering
Managed offices · Kendal · Rental prices are from £17.50 per sq/ft (excludes legal fees, VAT, business rates…
Private offices
Managed offices · Penrith
Private offices
Managed offices · Ulverston
Private offices, meeting rooms, studios and catering
Event venue · Kendal · Up to 8 people seated theatre style
Meeting rooms and catering
Community venue · Barrow-in-Furness
A theatre or auditorium, meeting rooms, a conference hall, event space, exhibition space and catering
Heritage venue · Bowness-on-Windermere · Up to 20 people seated theatre style
Meeting rooms, event space and catering
Conference centre · Ambleside · Up to 37 en-suite rooms for overnight guests
Meeting rooms, event space, a conference hall, outdoor space and catering
Arts venue · Kendal · Screen Three max. 15; Warehouse 26/40 seated; The Malt Room max. 300; Theatre max. 260
Meeting rooms, training rooms, a conference hall, a theatre or auditorium, event space, catering and studios
Event venue · Grange-over-Sands · 150 person capacity
Meeting rooms, a conference hall, event space, outdoor space and catering
Arts venue · Barrow-in-Furness · Studio space: 60 cinema-style or 40 with tables. ICT suite and training workshop: up to 15 classroom-style.
Studios, training rooms, a theatre or auditorium, event space and catering
Heritage venue · Penrith
Meeting rooms
All 28 workspaces and venues in Westmorland and Furness, on a map
No business in Westmorland and Furness has listed itself yet. Is yours here? List it, free: we read your website to say what you do and put you on the map.
Groups and memberships a business here can join, then the networks and chambers based here.
Membership or network · Open all year
Councils first, then the organisations with the most schemes open here.
Each town's page shows the businesses listed there, its events, places to work and meet, and the local schemes for businesses.
Westmorland and Furness is a council area in Cumbria, in North West England. Its biggest towns are Barrow-in-Furness, Kendal and Penrith.
Next to it: County Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, North Yorkshire, Lancaster
Choose an area on the map to see its page. The shaded shapes are its towns, each with its own page. The dots are its workspaces and venues. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.
Local Landscape gathers these details automatically from public web pages, and only some have been checked by a person, so check them with the organisation before you apply. Part of Cumbria. Show open funding for Westmorland and Furness on your website. Every area