TWO businesses in Hyndburn are to create 17 new jobs after a £44,825 funding windfall.

Government funding scheme Finance4Growth, which offers grants to develop established businesses, is to support furniture company Icon Designs, Knuzden, and Fitted Furniture Solutions, Clayton-le-Moors.

Funding will see new machinery and the creation of 12 jobs at Icon Designs, which manufactures memory foam products, including sofa beds, contract furniture and mattresses, supplying bespoke orders to TV programmes, including Big Brother.

At Fitted Furniture Solutions, five jobs will be created as a result of a grant for new machinery for the company, which designs, and installs, fitted furniture, mainly for the education sector.