SPECIAL Enterprise Minister Stephen Timms is in the North-west to see innovative community-based schemes at work in Liverpool and Manchester.
Mr Timms is visiting the Furniture Resource Centre, at Brunswick Business Park, and Liverpool's Eldonian Village.
In Manchester he will address a seminar on corporate sponsorship before visiting a housing co-operative.
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