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Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP Laura Welham-Halstead Communications & Engagement Lead

Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP Laura Welham-Halstead Communications & Engagement Lead. The LEP Team. … And you!. Our Priorities. Enterprise Zone Infrastructure Skills Enterprise Profile. Growing Places Fund. £16.1m of funding 2 nd round pre-call out now Projects include:

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Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP Laura Welham-Halstead Communications & Engagement Lead

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  1. Greater Cambridge Greater PeterboroughLEPLaura Welham-HalsteadCommunications & Engagement Lead

  2. The LEP Team … And you!

  3. Our Priorities • Enterprise Zone • Infrastructure • Skills • Enterprise • Profile

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. How to engage? • VSE Sub-group • LEP Prize Challenge • Link to our key priorities • Jobs creation • Skills • Collaboration – with each other and business

  9. Thank you for listeninglaura.halstead@yourlocalenterprisepartnership.co.uk@YourLEPwww.yourlocalenterprisepartnership.co.uk

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