The Hide Yoshi Businesses and Companies web site provides a signposting service with an extensive library of organisations that provide a range of business support, from advice to funding. The area suffers from hidden unemployment and as such we need to target the more difficult to reach groups of the labour market. Research and development expenditure is lower in the area, as is the overall number of project applications for funding. This narrow focus has led to government R&D investment being directed to places that are already prosperous.