Kirkbymoorside

Business Opportunities
Many skilled and inventive people and businesses would like to live and work in Kirkbymoorside with its combination of quality lifestyle, excellent services and accessibility to potential markets. There will be opportunity created by the massive investments in sustainable tourism projects in Dalby Forest and around Helmsley. There are other initiatives including the Sustainable Tourism Project, This Exploited Land and a range of cycling strategies, all championed by the North York Moors National Park and other local authorities. 
These types of initiative offer opportunities for Kirkbymoorside and its communities to exploit these opportunities directly or act as a quality business services provider to those businesses. A study carried out for Yorkshire Forward has identified the opportunities for the North Ryedale Market Towns arising from these initiatives with a recommendation that a joint approach is adopted to realise them. It is for each town to consider the most appropriate way in which economic benefits can be exploited.

There are opportunities for Kirkbymoorside to become a centre for vocational and life long learning, to offer the people of Northern Ryedale a range of training options “on their doorstep”, to meet the needs of the businesses in and around the town.
There are issues to be considered, however, in order to confidently address the opportunities:

• Address labour and skills shortages.
• Identify how new sustainable and active tourism projects potential can be best maximized by the town.
• Employ a strategy that delivers businesses that pay more because their markets allow them to. Encourage the use of new technology to make businesses more profitable and competitive.
• Develop the existing advanced metals cluster.
• Develop a Business/Trades Association of some kind.
• Retain/develop/attract entrepreneurial talent for the town.
• Improve the transport infrastructure.