A movement to help Creston area businesses struggling to access financing.
Plans to create a Community Investment Fund are progressing.
Kootenay Employment Services has launched a feasibility study into the locally based economic development initiative.
Eden Yesh says it will create jobs and benefit the local economy.
The feasibility study is expected to be complete in a few months and then business planning will start.
Yesh says the initiative is geared at socially and environmentally responsible companies looking to expand.
