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Business Growth Programme for supply chains, innovation and expansion

November 11, 2016
by Alun Severn
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The Birmingham City Council/GBSLEP Business Growth Programme is now open for applications. This programme of funding and support specifically targets supply chains, innovation and expansion. Eligible businesses must: Be SMEs with a turnover <£35.5m; Have been trading for at least s
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GBSLEP is recruiting a non-executive director for young people

November 10, 2016
by Alun Severn
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The Friday 2nd Dec 2016 deadline is approaching… The Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) has just announced that it is seeking to appoint a Non-Executive Director aged 18-30 to lead on the representation of Young People. The GBSLEP says: The i
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Being a social enterprise champion — a GBSLEP year

September 07, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Melanie Mills is the social enterprise champion for the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership. In this post she reflects on what being a social enterprise champion means and looks back over her first year in this role. Being a social enterprise champion —
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GBSLEP announces workshops for next round of ERDF calls

July 20, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Greater Birmingham & Solihull LEP has just announced that it is hosting information events on the government’s European Structural and Investment Funds Programmes 2014-20. ESIF Workshops across the area are planned for: ERDF Priority Axis 3 – Enhancing the competitiveness of small
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GBSLEP chooses new social enterprise champion

June 29, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Back in April we announced that Greater Birmingham & Solihull LEP was seeking nominations for a new post of social enterprise champion. The selection process has now been completed and we’re delighted that Melanie Mills, previously chief exec of Social Enterprise West Midlan
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Next round of ESIF calls will be mid-July

May 28, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Greater Birmingham & Solihull LEP has just announced that the next round of calls for European Structural and Invest Funds proposals will be mid-July. GBSLEP says: These will be national calls with a ‘local bias’. For the GBSLEP area, the calls will be for ERDF, including the Prio
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Help position the Birmingham city region — locally, internationally, globally

May 14, 2015
by Alun Severn
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  How do you tell the ‘story’ of something as amorphous as a ‘city region’ in a way that will appeal equally to the new inward investor, the young family looking for affordable housing and family-family neighbourhoods, entrepreneurs looking for the best pl
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GBSLEP seeks social enterprise champion — call for applications

April 01, 2015
by Alun Severn
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  Urgent news just in from the GBSLEP… The Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) is seeking to appoint a Champion for Social Enterprise in recognition of the key role that this sector plays in the local economy. It is looking for a passionate
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GBSLEP — European funding update

March 13, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Update 20/03/15: Further to the post below, the first calls have just gone live on the gov.uk website → HERE. Those who attended one of the GBSLEP roadshows (they took place in late-Feb and early-March) may already know this, but colleagues from the ESIF team at Solihull Council have
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