CUMBRIA LEP
KEY SECTORS 
TOP 5 VISIBLE SCALEUPS BY EMPLOYEE GROWTH
STORY CONTRACTING
Story Contracting offers construction and civil engineering services, specialising in transport infrastructure projects.
TOP NOTCH CONTRACTORS
Top Notch Contractors provides development, construction and land management services.
LAKELAND LAND ROVER
Lakeland Land Rover sells new and used Land Rover vehicles, parts and accessories and offers automotive servicing.
POINT ON TRACKWORK
Point on Trackwork provide railway maintenance services.
THE SWAN HOTEL
The Swan Hotel operates a luxury hotel and restaurant.
TOP 5 VISIBLE SCALEUPS BY TURNOVER GROWTH
THE SWAN HOTEL
The Swan Hotel operates a luxury hotel and restaurant.
LECK CONSTRUCTION
Leck Construction provides a range of property development services, constructing across the residential, industrial and commercial industries.
STORY CONTRACTING
Story Contracting offers construction and civil engineering services, specialising in transport infrastructure projects.
POINT ON TRACKWORK
Point on Trackwork provide railway maintenance services.
IMPACT INTERNATIONAL
Impact International provides leadership and management training to organisations.
LOCAL LEP SCALEUP PROGRAMMES
Cumbria is developing a programme for scaleups based on leadership development, investment, trade and export awareness. The LEP has been using existing data as a first step to discover suitable scaleup companies to target.
A significant part of this is to work with large corporations based in Cumbria to develop local supply chain knowledge, overcoming barriers to accessing new customers and markets at a local level, for scaleups.
Existing networks are being used as a knowledge transfer network and scaleups are invited to participate in this.
SCALEUP VIEWS:
The key barriers to growth are access to talent and infrastructure, alongside UK markets and the right bank finance. They are looking for support from LEPs and Growth Hubs, alongside peer to peer networks.
Analysis by BVA BDRC from the Scaleup Survey 2018
TOP BARRIERS TO GROWTH:
Access to the talent you can hire who can do the jobs you have available
Access to markets and customers in the UK
Access to infrastructure/premises and broadband
Access to the right bank finance for the business (including debt finance, bank loans, credit cards, overdrafts)
WANT TO SEE MORE OF:
- GrowthHubs
- LEPs (Local Enterprise Partnerships)
- Peer to peer networks
WHAT’S NEXT/FUTURE PLANS: Look out for our developing scaleup programme in 2019.
These are programmes offered by the LEP and do not represent all the programmes offered to scaleups in the local area. These have not been evaluated or endorsed by the ScaleUp Institute for their impact and effectiveness. Data utilised at the top of this page is taken from the IDBR 2016. The confidentiality of all data held on the IDBR is protected by the National Statistics Code of Practice and associated Protocols and by specific legislation. In accordance with these requirements, data presented is rounded to prevent disclosure. Differences may exist in totals across tables due to disclosure methods used.
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