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Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough
LEPLaura Welham-Halstead
Communications & Engagement Lead
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The LEP Team
… And you!
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Our Priorities
• Enterprise Zone• Infrastructure• Skills• Enterprise• Profile
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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
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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
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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
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LEP role in European Funding2014-20
• 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
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How to engage?
• VSE Sub-group• LEP Prize Challenge• Link to our key priorities– Jobs creation– Skills
• Collaboration – with each other and business