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GBSLEP roadshow events to promote EU structural and investment fund opportunities — dates & venues confirmed

February 09, 2015
by Alun Severn
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GBSLEP recently announced that it would be holding briefing roadshows to alert organisations to forthcoming opportunities arising from the LEP’s European Structural & Investment Funds strategy. Dates and venues for these events now confirmed. Please see below. Download PDF flyer.
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GBSLEP announces roadshow events to promote EU structural and investment fund opportunities

February 02, 2015
by Alun Severn
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GBSLEP has recently announced  that throughout February and into March it will be holding briefing roadshows to alert organisations to forthcoming opportunities arising from the LEP’s European Structural & Investment Funds strategy. Venues and timings are still being sorted
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Update from GBSLEP ESIF Committee (No. 2) 17/12/14

December 18, 2014
by Alun Severn
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    Tony attended an ESIF Shadow Committee meeting on the 17th December 2014 and has asked that this update be published here: Update from GBSLEP ESIF Committee 17/12/14 The meeting was chaired by Cllr Ian Courts from Solihull MBC. The first important announcement was that t
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Update from GBSLEP ESIF Committee

November 25, 2014
by Alun Severn
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  Many of you will recall from this post that we recently elected a social enterprise representative to the Greater Birmingham & Solihull LEP ESIF Committee. This is the committee that has responsibility for overseeing the LEP’s European & Structural Investment Fund
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Voting for social enterprise rep to the Greater Birmingham & Solihull European Structural & Investment Funds Committee

September 16, 2014
by Alun Severn
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  Voting for social enterprise rep to the Greater Birmingham & Solihull European Structural & Investment Funds Committee Please note that in order to vote you should be from an organisation based in the Greater Birmingham & Solihull LEP area, as seen above. Further to
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Nominations for social enterprise rep to the Greater Birmingham & Solihull European Structural & Investment Funds Committee

September 11, 2014
by Alun Severn
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This,  just in from The Digbeth Trust, which has offered to co-ordinate the nominations process… Nominations for social enterprise rep to the Greater Birmingham & Solihull European Structural & Investment Funds Committee The government has outlined new plans for how Loca
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“Don’t get too excited” — Lottery CEO cautious but optimistic for EU matching scheme

June 16, 2014
by Alun Severn
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Dawn Austwick, chief exec of the BIG Lottery has been very cautious in the words she has chosen too describe progress towards a joint Lottery and EU match-funding deal. If successful the proposal will enable around £500m-worth of Lottery funds flowing through the third sector to be ma
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Social enterprises in the Greater Birmingham area employ over 14,600 people and turnover at least £180m a year

March 12, 2014
by Alun Severn
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Research just published by the GBSLEP (March 2014)  offers a level of detail about the social enterprise sector that has never previously been available, underlining just how important the sector is — socially and economically. Size of the sector There are an estimated 450-500 s
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Heseltine Review argues for greater devolution of funds, local partnerships and competitive bidding as foundations for economic growth

November 29, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Lord Heseltine’s economic growth plan, No stone unturned in pursuit of growth has just been published. In it he calls for a major rebalancing of responsibilities for economic development between central and local government, and between government and the private sector. Heselti
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Local Enterprise Partnerships to get core funding

September 19, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Local Growth Minister Mark Prisk announced on Monday that Local Enterprise Partnerships will receive modest core funding for the rest of this financial year, with a further £500K per LEP over the following two years. There is also the potential for further competitive funds to be made
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LEP confirms sites and priorities of Birmingham’s Enterprise Zone

December 13, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership has today confirmed the sites and priorities for its Enterprise Zone proposal, one of four EZs recently given the green light by the Chancellor. The EZ will cover 26 sites in the city centre focusing on 7 clusters that rep
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‘Local Growth’ white paper confirms Regional Growth Fund bids open to social enterprises & SMEs

October 29, 2010
by Alun Severn
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Yesterday’s Regen & Renewal online has good coverage of the government’s new Local Growth White Paper and what it has to say about LEPs — local enterprise partnerships, covered elsewhere on this blog. The white paper confirms that: LEPs will be expected to fund t
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LEPs — ‘loose associations’ or ‘formal legal entities’?

August 04, 2010
by Alun Severn
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Further to this post, Steve Walker at ART has drawn my attention to this informative account in the Local Government Chronicle online of how the battle for LEPs — the Local Enterprise Partnerships which will take over many of the functions of the closing RDAs — is shaping
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