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Sandra
Turner
Sandra Turner
ESF Effectiveness Officer
Setting the scene
European Structural and
Investment Funds : Future of
Structural Funds in England
Ingrid Gardiner
ESF Effectiveness Manager
[email protected]
Sandra Turner
Civil Society secondee at BIS
[email protected]
European Funding
Network
European Structural and
Investment Funds
•Introduction to the European Structural and Investment Funds
•The Structural and Cohesion Funds are the European Union’s
main funding programmes for reducing social and economic
disparities across the EU. In England, these funds comprise
the:
•European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) which
supports research, innovation, business development and
infrastructure investment
•European Social Fund (ESF) which supports training,
enhancing access to employment and social inclusion.
•It will also include part of the European Agricultural Fund
for Rural Development (EAFRD), and will be aligned with the
European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF). This
funding should begin to come on stream in mid-2014.
European Structural and
Investment Funds
•2007-2013 Programme
•DWP’s European Social Fund Division (ESFD) is the Managing
Authority of the ESF Programme in England and funding is ‘matched’
with UK Government funding. You can also access ESF through one of
the Co-financing organisations, including NOMS, and Skills Funding
Agency, Department for Work and Pensions More information on the
European Social Fund in England is available at www.dwp.gov.uk/esf.
For information on ESF and civil society, please go to our dedicated
European Funding Network website.
•Above opportunities tendered through PQQ and ITT
•Community Grants through Grant Co-ordinating Bodies
•e.g. The Consultancy Home Counties Limited, Surrey Community Action
and WEA
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Proposed Delivery Arrangements
European Structural and
Investment Funds
• To re-cap, LEPs are responsible for:
• coming up with an investment strategy for spending their allocation
• finding projects to deliver that strategy, using a mixture of
commissioning, bidding and co-financing as best meets local need
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finding match funding for those projects
ensuring those projects deliver their targets
making sure their allocations are spent on time
monitoring how well they are delivering against their strategies and
the programme priorities
Civil Society and LEPs
• Engagement with all
stakeholders
• Building meaningful
strategic relationships
• Help deliver social
inclusion (20%!)
• That is not the only
offer – civil society
sector comes in many
different forms –
CICs, social
enterprises, mutuals
and trade unions
Local focus
new opportunities?
• Match funding for the
sector (e.g. Big
Lottery Fund) to
complement Growth
Programme
• Community Led Local
Development
• Community Grants
• Social innovation,
social inclusion, social
investment, technical
assistance and
capacity building
Local focus
new opportunities?
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What is CLLD?
Modelled on previous Leader approaches (RDPE)
An optional tool for territorial development
Focussed on sub-regional areas (10-150,000
population)
• Driven by local communities
• Multi-sectoral (public, private and civil society)
• Integrated approach single or multi-fund options
possible e.g. ESF + ERDF; Leader + ESF + ERDF;
EMFF + ESF etc.
Tasks of LAGs
• Local Action Groups
(LAGs) select
accountable body
• Build capacity
• Draw up selection
criteria
• Call for proposals
• Selection
• Monitoring and
evaluation
Why should LEPs
consider CLLD
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Local communities and business in control of needs of local
area and preferred solutions
Opportunity for small scale localised and micro-interventions
Interventions complementary to LEP investment strategies
Builds the capacity of communities to act & work in
partnership to respond to economic, social and
environmental challenges
Based on co-responsibility and ownership
Networking and cooperation activities
Strong focus on innovation
Long term investment
Benefits of investment stay in community
Concentrated on areas of need
Timetable
• April 2013 –
•Guidance to LEPs on EU Investment Strategies issued
•July 2013 – Final Guidance issued to LEPs
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LEP Notional allocations announced
•September 2013 – First Draft Investment Strategies
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LEPs produce economic strategic plans
•January 2014
- Final Investment Strategies
•Summer 2014
-Delivery begins
•Partners encouraged to link up with LEPs NOW to develop
‘transformational’ projects.
Questions?
•Thank you and remember that this is an opportunity for
you…
•http://www.europeanfundingnetwork.eu
•Thank you!
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