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Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough

LEPLaura 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• 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 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

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

laura.halstead@yourlocalenterprisepartnership.co.uk@YourLEPwww.yourlocalenterprisepartnership.co.uk