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Greater Cambridge
Greater Peterborough
LEP
Laura Welham-Halstead
Communications & Engagement Lead
The LEP Team
… And you!
Our Priorities
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Enterprise Zone
Infrastructure
Skills
Enterprise
Profile
Growing Places Fund
• £16.1m of funding
• 2nd round pre-call out now
• Projects include:
– Haverhill Research Park
– Fenland Horticulture & Land
Based Skills Centre
– Future Business Centre
(Social Enterprise)
– Transport improvements
LEP Prize Challenge
• £1m fund for Voluntary
and Social Enterprise
led projects
• Getting people job
ready (1,000) and into
work (250)
• Eight winners in the 1st
round
European Structural and
Investment Funds 2014-20
• Single EU Growth Programme for England combining:
• European Social Fund (ESF – skills, employability
and social inclusion)
• European Regional Development Fund (ERDF innovation and enterprise)
• European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
(EAFRD - agriculture and rural development)
• €75.5 million (£64 million) provisional allocation for
GCGP area 2014-20 (ERDF and ESF)
• Further small allocation under EAFRD
LEP role in European Funding
2014-20
• LEPs responsible for prioritising spend locally
• GCGP to submit final European Structural and Investment
Funding Strategy to Government by 31 January 2014
• 20% of ESF to tackle social inclusion and combat poverty
• Programmes to begin delivery mid-2014
• GCGP to facilitate proposals for local projects
• Public and private sector match funding required
• National match funding options available – including Big Lottery
and Prince’s Trust for Social Inclusion
How to engage?
• VSE Sub-group
• LEP Prize Challenge
• Link to our key priorities
– Jobs creation
– Skills
• Collaboration – with each
other and business
Thank you for listening
[email protected]
@YourLEP
www.yourlocalenterprisepartnership.co.uk