Hundreds of firms are being given a chance to hear how a thriving regeneration programme can help them.

Royds Community Association staff are currently putting together a help package for firms attending its next Employers' Club at the Guide Post Hotel in Low Moor.

Some 400 companies are being invited to the event which is on Tuesday, March 28, and will include information about how tomorrow's Budget will affect them.

Details will be given of the Working Families Tax Credit, the Fairness at Work legislation and the Competition Act. The meeting is scheduled to end at 12.30pm when Employers' Club members will have a buffet lunch.

The Employers Club will also hear how the regeneration scheme has fared in its fifth year and there will be information about joining the organisation's subsidiary company board.

Royds Community Association is responsible for a seven-year, £31 million regeneration of Buttershaw, Woodside and Delph Hill estates using the Government's Single Regeneration Budget.

The Employers' Club is part of a raft of programmes developed by the economic team at Royds including awarding small business development and business start-up grants and job search and employment outreach.

The programme is also involved in the creation of three companies called Royds Reseacrh, Royds Groundforce and the Royds Training Initiative.

For details phone Andy Greenough, Royds corporate manager, on (01274) 414111.

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