With great regret I must inform you that Preston Business Venture Ltd will cease trading on 31st March 2008.  We have been unable to secure any funding as a consequence the Board have made the decision to close the company.  

Although we are unable to provide you with any services, what can you do if you need help with starting your business in Lancashire?  In the first instance please ring Business Link on   0845 00 66 888 and they will provide you with an information pack and some more information. 

Are you an existing business who could use a Business Mentor?  Please contact Aileen Evans, CENTA Ltd, on  01254 828820  for further information.

If you are female, or from an ethnic minority, or disabled, or thinking of starting a social enterprise please contact Business Link and ask for the telephone number of Enterprise4All (E4A), believed to be based in Blackburn.  Since May 2007 these are the Lancashire deliverers of the NWDA's Business Start-Up service. 

All the best in your future as we get to grips with ours.

So it's goodbye from me, Philip Morris, and it's goodbye from them, Carol Douglass, and Jane Fitzell (who has recently emigrated to Melbourne, Australia)