Contact info for areas not yet in a LEP

Contact name/description	Contact details
Other economic partnership Swindon	Organisation: Forward Swindon Main contact: Ian Piper, Chief Executive Tel: 01793 429256 Email: ianpiper@forwardswindon.co.uk
Other economic partnership Surrey	Organisation: Surrey Economic Partnership/Surrey Connects Main contact: Mark Pearson CEO/Surrey Economic Partnership Tel 01483 685230 Mobile 07855 387 422 Email : mark@surreyeconomicpartnership.org
Other economic partnership Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset	Main contact: Adrian Trevett Economic Development Manager, Borough of Poole Tel: 01202 633032 Email: a.trevett@poole.gov.uk
Other economic partnership Buckinghamshire	Organisation: Buckinghamshire Business First Main Contact : Alex Pratt Address: The Saunderton Estate, Wycombe Road, Saunderton, Bucks HP14 4BF Tel: 01494 568937 Website: http://www.bbf.uk.com/ Email: : info@bbf.uk.com

LEP Capacity Fund: Who got what?

I have sourced this via desk research and other informal means.  If something is wrong or you would like me to add anything in just let me know.  Please also note that  no partnership has received in excess of £48k.

M3 Enterprise awarded £9,000

Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP was awarded £48,000

Cumbria LEP awarded £25,350

Greater Manchester LEP received £15,000

Oxfordshire LEP awarded £15,000

Hertfordshire LEP given £25,000

The Marches LEP awarded £45,000

Sheffield City Region LEP allocated £20,000

Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire LEP awarded £48,000

West of England LEP given £20,000

The D2N2 LEP received £48,000 from the LEP Capacity Fund

Lincolnshire £48,000 from the fund

Solent £25,000

GLA £10,000 http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/greater-london-authority/directors-decisions/dd514 

BIS LEP contact info

 BIS local relationship managers

Area	LEPs	Contact (email – firstname.lastname@bis.gsi.gov.uk)
East and South East Midlands	D2N2; Lincolnshire	Maria Lyle (tel – 01159712552)
	Leicester and Leicestershire; South East Midlands	Will Morlidge (tel – 01159712563)
London and East	Hertfordshire	Peter Northover (tel – 01223372693)
	London; Kent, Essex and East Sussex	Iain McNab (tel – 020 7215 3295)
	New Anglia	Lisa Roberts (tel – 01223372647)
	Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough	Kevin Jones (tel – 01223372563)
North West	Cheshire & Warrington; Greater Manchester	Martin Wood (tel – 01612610305)
	Cumbria; Liverpool City Region; Lancashire	Ian Hamilton (tel – 01612610369)
South Central and West	Cornwall and IoS; Heart of the South West	Sally Edgington (tel – 07776457708)
	Oxfordshire; TV Berkshire; Coast to Capital	Clare Marett (tel – 01483884838)
	West of England; Gloucestershire	Paul Shand (tel – 07748180119)
	Enterprise M3; Solent	Angela Alderman (tel – 01483882382)
West Midlands	Stoke and Staffs; Black Country; The Marches	Kevin Postones (tel – 07769671058)
	Coventry and Warwickshire; Greater B’ham and Solihull; Worcestershire	Ian Smith (tel – 07825850953)
Yorkshire and Humber and North East	Leeds City Region; York and North Yorkshire	Lorraine Coates (tel – 07825841832)
	North Eastern	Adrian Coates (tel – 07825841834)
	Tees Valley Unlimited	Margaret Coates (tel – 07825841835)
	Sheffield City Region	Peter Campey (tel – 07825841831)

Areas not covered by LEPs	Contact (email – firstname.lastname@bis.gsi.gov.uk)
Surrey Buckinghamshire	Ian Coates (tel – 01483882350)
Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset	Angela Alderman (tel – 01483882382)
Hull and Humber	Peter Campey (tel – 01333412652)

Everything you need to know about each LEP... contact and priorities (where avaliable)

Please see June 2012 version for up to date information

LEPs: what does success look like?

We have 34 LEPs in place and 12 Boards appointed (all with private sector Chair’s) http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/economic-development/leps/lep-contact-details with more to follow.

The next job is prioritisation of issues and identifying what it is the LEP will do.  Any of us who have seen a central government presentation on LEPs will have got the message loud and clear that LEPs should focus on a few priorities and have an impact. 

Many LEPs will be using their local authority produced (recently completed) Local Economic Assessment (and other evidence) as well as capacity funding to understand local issues.  The LEP will not be able to tackle all of the issues.  It will have to focus. 

Strategic local issues will be the priority, for example: infrastructure; transport; broadband; sector prioritisation; nuclear, international trade / exports, new business formation, renewables etc obviously this will be different for each LEP and will depend upon if an area is for example a city region, rural, one county or many, demographics etc BUT also what can a LEP hope to influence and what funding / other resources might be available to do this.

So this brings me to the question of who will be doing the delivery?  There is no point of having strategic objectives if you cannot deliver these objectives (or at least influence others to deliver your objectives).

I have been doing some thinking about how the strategic objectives and delivery fit together.  How will a LEP prove it’s ‘successful’ if it doesn’t deliver anything?  But should LEPs be involved in delivery? 

Perhaps the answers to these questions will be different depending upon which LEP you are in…

As Local Authorities are on LEP Boards (generally a 50/50 public private split) it seems that they will be the / a delivery vehicle?  The interest on LinkedIn (numerous groups including ‘Local Enterprise Partnerships’ and ‘From RDA to LEP’) and Communities of Practice http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/welcome.do especially ‘Local Enterprise Partnership’ group have high public sector interest.  This is where the LA officers share best practice, presumably this is then used to inform LEP Board reports.   The relationship between the public and private sector within the LEP (outside of the Board) does not seem to be clear.  Events about LEPs don’t seem to satisfy both audiences.  The public sector is engaged (economic development and others) as it is their job, but there is a long way to go to ensure business is engaged (businesses need to know how to do this, what is required from them and what they get out of it). 

LEPs do not and were never intended to replace RDAs entirely.  The LEP role is not yet fixed and it is likely that their role is still to develop with more policy areas coming under their remit e.g. transport?

Interest in LEPs is high but for many different reasons.  There needs to be strategic coordination (LEP chairs to meet to discover opportunities for synergy and to raise issues to BIS etc) and well as practitioner coordination (who is doing what well and how).  This is difficult in a competitive environment.

Individual LEP success will be about if they achieve their (local) objectives. 

For now:

• Understand your local area (using evidence)
• Prioritise the local issues
• Define the LEPs objectives
• Communicate and involve the private sector in this process
• Deliver or facilitate delivery to impact on these objectives
• Check what other LEPs are doing (not just your geographical neighbours), are there any opportunities here?

Many of you will have given this more thought.  Do Share.