Transcript External Relations Team

EU Structural and Investment
Funding in Lancashire 2014-20
BIG Lottery Fund Stage 1 Event
18th November 2014
Sean McGrath
Head of Economic and External Relations,
LCC
ESIFs Strategy Development
• National (England) 7 year programme for ERDF/ESF/EAFRD
• ‘Notional’ allocation of funding to Lancashire - £230m
– European Regional Development (ERDF) Business Support, Innovation and
Knowledge Transfer £136m
– European Social (ESF) Social inclusion and Skills Development £90m
– European Agriculture, Farming and Rural Development Fund (EAFRD) £4m
• LEPs submitted ESI Funds Strategies
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11 EU Priorities distilled into 6 Lancashire ESIF Priorities
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Strategic Development, Infrastructure & Environmental Resilience £34m
Business Growth and Innovation £57m
Growth Sectors and Supply Chains £48m
Inward Investment and Marketing £9m
Skills for Growth £49m (£38.4m ESF)
Creating Opportunities for Disadvantaged Communities & Groups £33m (£30.4m ESF)
ESI Funds Delivery
Methods for allocating Funding
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Open Calls for projects based upon call criteria agreed by the Lancashire ESIF
Partnership and Government Departments. This will involve project promoters
providing their own match funding. Calls will be agreed by the Lancashire ESIF
Partnership as part of the ESIF Strategy Implementation Plan.
The Opt In process will involve organisations such as the Skills Funding Agency
pre- matching parts of Lancashire's ESIF allocation and using their own
procurement mechanisms for selecting delivery activity. The Lancashire ESIF
Partnership will agree Delivery Plans, including outputs, with Opt In promoters.
The Opt In process will be the main way of allocating ESF Funding
ESF Outputs
Number of participants
32,970
Number of unemployed
9,660
Number of inactive participants
8,230
Number of employed (including self-employed) participants
Number of participants aged 15-24
15,080
3,370
ESF Opt Ins and Open Calls
• Big Lottery Fund (BIG) – £5m
– BIG funding will focus on supporting the Third Sector. One Lancashire have
been appointed by BIG to develop the funding mechanism for Lancashire
• Skills Funding Agency – TBC
– Discussions ongoing on priorities for SFA delivery
• Department for Work and Pensions – TBC
– Discussions ongoing on priorities for DWP delivery
• Princes Trust – 600k
• Local Impact Fund – TBC
Open Calls
• HEIs
• Priorities outside Opt In focus
• LEP specific priorities
ESIF Governance
European Structural and Investment Funds Governance
Government Departments
(Managing Authorities)
Dotted lines indicate a local
relationship
Lancashire Enterprise Partnership
ERDF/ESF England
Growth Board
EAFRD England Programme
Monitoring Committee
LEP Board
Executive
Committee
Lancashire European Structural and
Investment Funds Partnership
Skills Group
BOOST Group
Delivery
Next Steps
• UK Partnership Agreement agreed October 2014
• First ‘Shadow’ Lancashire ESIF Partnership meeting in
November 2014
• ERDF/ESF/EAFRD Operational Programmes likely to be agreed
from December 2014 onwards
• Operational Programmes will set out the financial allocations
between different types of activity and Unit Costs for outputs.
• Revise ESIFs Strategy based upon agreed Operational
programmes
• ESIF Partnership to negotiate/agree Opt In Delivery Plans
Operational Programmes ‘go live’ Spring 2015