Welcome to the Growing Calderdale website. Growing Calderdale is a service run by Calderdale Council dedicated to working with businesses to boost the local economy. Its aim is to facilitate growth, sustainability and prosperity in Calderdale by helping to create the best possible conditions for businesses.

Growing Calderdale offers support to businesses around the following key services:

• Skills bursaries
• Workforce development plans
• Job creation bursaries
• Vacancy service
• Property searches / directory of available premises

Calderdale is the heart of Pennine Yorkshire, a Metropolitan Borough which comprises the principal towns of Halifax, Elland, Brighouse, Hebden Bridge and Todmorden, as well as a sizeable amount of the stunning countryside which surrounds them. It enjoys good links to Leeds and Bradford in the East and Manchester in the West.

Traditionally, Calderdale was a manufacturing district. Although manufacturing has declined in recent decades the sector still employs around 20% of the local population, which is higher than the West Yorkshire and National averages. Other key sectors include Financial and Business Services, which is the largest sector in Calderdale, and Distribution, Hotels and Restaurants. Smaller, yet no less important, sectors include Creative and Digital Industries and those businesses connected to Tourism.

"The challenge for Calderdale at present is to continue growing a culture of enterprise. It is important that relationships between employers and education institutions are encouraged so that young people are given the skills they need to contribute to, and succeed in the workplace, and product innovation is enhanced. With a great quality of life, we want Calderdale to be the best place in the country to live, set up and do business."  - Councillor David Kirton, Portfolio Holder for Regeneration and Development, Calderdale MBC.