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Help for firms to take on jobseekers
Published: 27/02/2023
COPELAND Borough Council is offering financial backing to businesses who take on jobseekers.
The wage subsidy scheme, which the council has successfully run in the past, is available to firms with less than 50 staff. They can apply for up to £3,000 towards wages and training costs for 26 weeks. The new staff must live in Copeland and be unemployed or in receipt of benefits.
Winner chosen for landmark artwork
Published: 27/02/2023
AN OPTICAL illusion in an incredible beachside location has been chosen as a landmark artwork for Copeland.
Provisionally titled Your Daylight Destination, Olafur Eliasson and Robert McFarlane’s piece is an elongated pool which, when viewed from a nearby platform, will form a perfect circle. The location will be at or near Silecroft, subject to planning permission.
It has been chosen as the flagship piece for the Deep Time art project – part of Copeland Council’s Connecting Cumbria’s Hidden Coast programme.