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Blackpool College

Cleveleys Building is set to undergo a £3.5million transformation to significantly improve the learning and working environment for students and staff. The College is one of the largest colleges in the country and the work we do is remarkably diverse. We work closely with schools on the Fylde coast, providing programmes for over 600 14-16 year-olds who come into the College and study with us every week. Then there are the 3000 full-time 16-19 year-olds who study further education courses in a tremendously wide range of areas ranging from Aviation Engineering to Society, Health and Childhood Studies. ... Read More

Access To Finance

Invest in Blackpool is an initiative of Blackpool Council that offers grant and loan assistance to local businesses and investors aiming to bring forward their investment plans, either to sustain and grow their business, or to modernise and bring back into use commercial and industrial property. ....Read More

Blackpool Tourism

Blackpool is heavily dependent on tourism. In what is often regarded as its heyday (1900–1950), Blackpool thrived as the factory workers of northern England took their annual holidays there en masse. Any photograph from that era shows crowds of tourists on the beach and promenade. Blackpool was also a preferred destination of visitors from Glasgow and remains so to this day. Reputedly, the town still has more hotel and B&B beds than the whole of Portugal. The town went into decline when cheap air travel arrived in the 1960s and the same workers decamped to the Mediterranean coastal resorts due to competitive prices and the more reliable weather. Today Blackpool remains the most popular seaside resort in the UK, however the town has suffered a serious drop in numbers of visitors which has fallen from 17 million in 1992 to 10 million today. Similarly Pleasure Beach Blackpool was the country's most popular free attraction with 6 million visitors a year but has lost over a million visitors since 1998 and has recently introduced a £5 entrance fee. Today, many visitors stay for the weekend rather than for a week at a time.... Read More