The Barrow-in-Furness New Entrepreneur Scholarship programme is managed by Furness Enterprise, a development agency dedicated to the economic development of the Furness Peninsular. NES has allowed Furness Enterprise to deliver a comprehensive business support service to local people with a range of issues and perceived ‘barriers’ to self-employment.

As well as start-up businesses courses such as NES, Furness Enterprise also coordinate a number of services including supporting firms looking to relocate to Furness, assisting unemployed and redundant local people back into employment, encouraging technological innovation and diversification and building a greater entrepreneurial culture of the area.