Edwin Booth visits new world-class science and engineering facility

Students at Runshaw College showed off their new £6.2m world-class science and engineering facility for the first time.

Whilst its formal opening is not until 23 September, Runshaw principal Simon Partington gave chair of Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Edwin Booth a preview ahead of the public unveiling in recognition of the LEP’s £4.3m investment in the scheme. Edwin Booth toured the centre and met Runshaw students.

“The LEP is investing £30m of Growth Deal Skills funding in a network of modern centres across Lancashire, of which Runshaw is the latest to be launched.

Simon Partington said: “It is a real pleasure to have this partnership with the LEP, the SEIC is a remarkable state of the art facility that our young people, who travel from all over the North West, will benefit from for years to come. We can’t wait for our students of all ages to use it.”