Cumbrian business network celebrates its 400th member

• Community News, Features
• 18th October 2022
• Cumbria Guide

Cumbrian business network celebrates its 400^th member

Since 2015, Carlisle Ambassadors, has been promoting and operating a business relationship community with a vision to engage with local businesses, through assisting them to network, learn, grow and build profitable strategic partnerships, growing to over 400 members in that time.

The membership is made up of like-minded business people who want to benefit from a strong and influential network and are interested in making a difference for the future growth and development of the City of Carlisle.

Carlisle Ambassadors is designed to grow and promote business development opportunities for the district. It aims to do this by working with a variety of partners to build key relationships, with the overall objective of actively encouraging inward investment to ensure the sustainability of existing businesses and the incubation and growth of new high value businesses.

At its recent event on the 11^th October at Carlisle Racecourse, Carlisle Ambassadors welcomed Enterprise Answers as it 400th member, where Grahame Latus and Mark Cheetham collected their certificate. Enterprise Answers is Cumbria’s only Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) and the only rural CDFI in the north of England. They are a sustainable, independent organisation providing financial services across the region with the aim of creating social improvement and business development returns.

Michelle Masters, Carlisle Ambassadors, project lead, said: ‘’We have seen a steady growth in our membership over the last eight years and we hope to develop our membership further in the coming months and years. We firmly believe that building long term effective relationships through local business networking, opens up opportunities leading to business growth. As we all know spending time in the company of the right people is an investment in your business’s future.”

Leader of Carlisle City Council, Cllr John Mallinson added: “It’s great to see Carlisle Ambassadors welcoming more members and going from strength to strength. Carlisle has a lot to offer and we should be proud of the economy and our businesses.”

Carlisle Ambassadors is funded by Carlisle City Council.

To find out more contact Michelle Masters by email [email protected] or by calling 07810 224 735