1. Boosting Local Enterprise
6th December 2012

2. Session 2 – Business Advice
Lucy Haynes
– CBI East Midlands
Maxine Aldred
– Federation of Small Businesses
Sue Tilley
– Leicester and Leicestershire Economic Partnership

3. How the CBI is supporting
Regional Growth
Lucy Haynes
Director, CBI East Midlands
6 December 2012

4. The UK’s premier business organisation
providing a voice for employers
Membership A selection of our members
• The CBI is the UK’s premier business lobbying organisation
providing a voice for employers
• The UK’s leading business organisation speaking for some
240,000 businesses -together employing around a third of
the private sector workforce
• Membership comprises the majority of the FTSE 100 & UK’s
major employers;
• Including mid-caps; SMEs; privately owned businesses and
trade associations
• The CBI speaks for all sectors - agriculture, automotive,
aerospace, construction, creative, financial services, IT,
manufacturing, professional services, retail, transport,
tourism, utilities…..
• Our mission is to promote the conditions in which businesses
of all size and sectors can compete and prosper for the
benefit of all

5. We lobby on behalf of business
Lobbying
• Our lobbying and campaigning keeps business interests at the
heart of policy in Westminster, the devolved administrations and
internationally
• Unrivalled access - our senior team meets regularly with key
Ministers, policymakers, legislators and regulators
• CBI President Sir Roger Carr sits on Prime Minister’s Business
Advisory Group
• Supported by an advisory team of 90 economic and policy
specialists
Policy Formulation
• Our policy work is driven by a robust consultation process with
our members
• Policy is determined locally via twelve regional councils
• And driven nationally via specific working groups, committees
and task forces
Intelligence
• Market data, forecasts and analysis from CBI surveys
• Influential thought leadership reports
• Strategic foresight – Intelligence First products help you manage
the impact of legislative changes on your business in advance The CBI is ranked the most assiduous corporate
lobbyist with no fewer than 75 ministerial
Business Networks meetings ahead of TUC (45)
• Networking, profiling & best practice exchange Source: Evening Standard & Public Affairs News
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• Regional and national events

6. Key priorities for the East Midlands
Improving • Making the most of the region’s connection
to the capital
inter-regional
• Improving connections between the East
connectivity and West Midlands
• Potential to improve digital infrastructure
Governing a • Despite multi-polar nature of the region, there
unique, is still potential for powers and resourced to
challenging be devolved
geography
• The East Midlands generates more
Profiling the manufacturing output and has more
role of manufacturing jobs relative to the size of the
manufacturing population than any other region of the UK
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7. Promoting growth in all regions
Our Objectives
• Provide thought-leadership on the issue of spatial
rebalancing.
• Promote a better understanding of the supply side
constraints to growth in the UK’s regions.
• Ensure the government’s local economic development
policies reflect the varying economic circumstances
across the country and concentrate on removing
barriers to growth.
• Bringing a private sector voice to the spatial
rebalancing debate.
• Influencing government policy around Local
Enterprise Partnerships, Enterprise Zones, City Deals
and the Regional Growth Fund.
• Improving coordination of policy from the local, to the
sub-regional to the national level – and ensuring
nothing gets lost in between.
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8. Support for Business
Campaign
for Medium
Sized
Businesses
Profiling
Support for business
Supporting
SMEs businesses in the
of all sizes East
Midlands
Removing
the
obstacles
to growth
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9. Get in touch
Lucy Haynes
CBI East Midlands
E: lucy.haynes@cbi.org.uk
T: 0115 852 3151
M: 07949 609 888
Visit the website
www.cbi.org.uk
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10. Session 2 – Business Advice
Lucy Haynes
– CBI East Midlands
Maxine Aldred
– Federation of Small Businesses
Sue Tilley
– Leicester and Leicestershire Economic Partnership

11. Federation of Small Businesses
Supporting local Entrepreneurs

13. Are you an entrepreneur?
Entrepreneurs have good
business ideas and take risks
to put them into practice.
Entrepreneurs start and grow
their business with passion
and determination.
Being an entrepreneur
transcends gender, age, class
and every other social divide.
Anyone, if they invest their
mind and money into it, can
be an entrepreneur.
It’s you!! All our members
are business owners and
entrepreneurs.

16. FSB Legal Benefits Package
• Access to legal advice from qualified lawyers 24/7 365 days a year
• Tax advice from Revenue trained specialists
• Information and documentation on employment law, tax and commercial law
through the FSB’s members-only website: www.fsblegalinfo.org.uk
• Insurance cover for legal and tax professional fees and statutory awards in the
event of an employment dispute, aspect enquiry or full tax enquiry

17. Bank for Free with FSB Business Banking
• No fees to pay for standard non-cash transactions such as Direct Debits,
standing orders and automated credits
• You can pay in as many cheques as you like and deposit up to £4,000 in cash per
month, all for free interest is paid on your entire credit balance
• There's a dedicated team in place to help you transfer accounts
• What's more, we will give you an annual £25 loyalty bonus just for banking with
us!
• The benefits don't stop there - once you have made the switch you can also
apply for a fee-free overdraft facility, a fee-free FSB Business charge card and
Business loans from £2,000 to £25,000.
* Terms and conditions apply

18. FSB Merchant Services
• Automated Credits – Less cash to handle and bank
• Increase your average customer spend and increase the
amount of impulse purchases
• Extra customers
In addition to these benefits, FSB members also receive:
• Free account set up
• Reduced terminal rental
• Competitive credit & debit card processing rates
• Discounted fully secure eCommerce payment pages for trading over the
internet

19. FSB Mobile Card Payment Terminal
Completely wireless solution to process secure credit and debit card
transactions without the need or expense of fixed telephone lines.
•All major credit & debit cards accepted – *WHEREVER YOU ARE!
•Our mobile terminals work using the GPRS mobile networks, processing real-time transactions
within 3-5 seconds, without any additional line call charges. Lightweight, easy to use and
completely mobile, our GPRS mobile terminals are fully Chip and PIN compliant, delivering
members the ultimate protection against fraudulent cards.
123 Send offer a range of options to suit your individual business needs:
•Purchase: For members who prefer to own their businesses' equipment
•Long Term: Keep your monthly costs to a minimum with a fixed, market leading monthly rate
•Mid Term: Busier during certain times of the year? – 123 Send offer a unique mid term hire option
with a minimum 3 month contract.
•Short Term: Perfect for any event! Perhaps you are going to a show or exhibition, or putting on an
end of year sale?

20. FSB Insurance Service
Here are just some of the advantages you might experience:
• Register free by calling the Helpline number on 0845 7626158
• Full range of commercial and personal insurance products
• Market leading Credit Management and Credit Checking Service
• Your own independent loss adjuster to help with bigger claims
• Unlimited free expert advice

21. FSB Independent Financial Services
Here are just some of the advantages you might experience:
• Sound, unbiased advice on investments, savings and income protection, across the entire
financial services market place.
• NO OBLIGATION FINANCIAL HEALTH CHECK WORTH £250
NEW LAWS - From Oct 2012 new laws introduced on pensions!
You may have no choice …….
Talk to FSB IFS to find out about how they can help you

22. FSB Pension Scheme
Got staff? Got a Pension Scheme? From 2012, it’s the Law!
Between 2012 and 2016 ALL employers will need to:
• Have registered a pension scheme
• Auto enrolled ALL eligible staff into it
• Pay contributions into it
You could wait until you HAVE to do it or plan ahead NOW!
Don’t worry – the FSB can help.....
Talk to FSB IFS to find out about how they can help you

23. FSB Care
As a right of membership, this will give you:
• access to your own personal nurse adviser who will be there for you to provide
practical information and emotional support for as long as you need it.
• Your personal nurse adviser can arrange:
• a Home Visit by a specialist nurse to answer your questions, allay fears, and help
identify issues you should raise when you next see your consultant,
• OR, if more helpful to your situation, arrange
• a course of therapy, including physio, occupational, speech or complementary,
depending on your needs,
• OR, if more appropriate in your circumstances , a course of specialist counselling.
• You will also have access to a network of specialist charities and self-help groups if
these will help.

24. FSB Print & Mail
FSB members can now benefit from a new mail service, which not only makes it
easier for you to keep in contact with your customers, it saves you time and
money too.
• Significant cost savings (price is less than the cost of a stamp), no printing, no toner
cost or franking machine rental required
• Time savings – no printing and hand enclosing of envelopes, create your own
mailing anytime and from anywhere
• Inventory saving - cost and space
• Security – Send your post with peace of mind with secure data transfer
• You retain full control!
FSB Print and Mail is a new generation of mail service which allows
members to compile and send post direct from their desktop - from
just one individual letter or invoice, to regular, branded, marketed
mailings. You compile the letter on your PC; upload online and then
FSB Print and Mail prints and posts it on your behalf.

25. FSB Data Services
Established in 1972, Market Location is the market leading
business data supplier in the UK
As a member of the FSB you can benefit from obtaining
accurate information on businesses for your own marketing
campaigns at beneficial rates using FSB Business Data

26. Other Benefits available to FSB
Members
• FSB Telecom
• FSB Fuel Car Programme
• FSB Factors
• FSB Office Solutions

27. FSB National Conference comes to
Leicester 21-23rd March 2013
700 small businesses
Headline politicians
Motivational speakers
Exhibition

28. FSB/Streamline Launch National
Awards
The FSB Streamline UK Business
Awards celebrates the successes of
the UK's small to medium sized
business community.

29. Local Campaigning
Working with LEPs across our region
Small Business Rate Relief
Public Procurement
Keep Trade Local
Local Authority Meetings
Business Crime

30. Events throughout
Leicestershire/Northants/Rutland
Business Breakfast Meetings/Lunch Events
Evening Networking Events
Sporting events – Golf Days/Karting
County Shows around the 3 counties
Business Exhibitions

31. Did you know that FSB
membership
starts from as little as £120?

32. For more information telephone
0116 2597 707
Maxine.aldred@fsb.org.uk
www.fsb.org.uk/leics-northants-rutland

33. Session 2 – Business Advice
Lucy Haynes
– CBI East Midlands
Maxine Aldred
– Federation of Small Businesses
Sue Tilley
– Leicester and Leicestershire Economic Partnership

34. HUB:BLE
6th December 2012
Sue Tilley
LLEP

36. Background to LLEP
•LEPs introduced by Government through
the Localism Act
•LLEP is one of 39 national LEPs formally
recognised by HM Government
•Partnership between business, local
authorities, HE and FE and voluntary sectors

37. Role of LLEP
To lead economic growth in Leicester &
Leicestershire by:
Engaging with business, local authorities, HE, FE
and the voluntary sector
Influencing national Government economic policy
and spend including national contracts
Facilitating local partnership working and relations
with national Government
Investing discrete LLEP funding and partner
resources to achieve economic growth

38. Economic Growth Plan
District and City Council Private Sector
Leadership Leadership
Area Based Priorities Sector Growth Priorities
LLEP Area Priorities
City and County Council
Leadership

39. Ambition
By 2020 we will:
• Create 25,000 private sector jobs
• Attract £2b private sector investment
• Increase GVA by £4b to £23b

40. Strategic priorities
Match skills supply with demand
Increase availability of employment land and infrastructure
Support enterprise growth and investment
Match available capital to enterprise growth

41. Match Skills Supply with Demand
Priorities
1. Improve engagement between employers and training providers
2. Increase number and flexibility of work placements, apprenticeships internships
3. Improve careers advice from schools through to FE and HE
4. Address worklessness by raising ambition and employability skills

42. Increase Availability of Employment
Land & Infrastructure
Priorities
1. Increase availability of ‘fit for purpose’ high quality employment land and
premises
2. Ensure transport infrastructure supports future economic growth
3. Promote need for high quality digital infrastructure
4. Increase provision of quality housing to support economic growth

43. Promote Enterprise Growth and
Investment
Priorities
1. Provide effective business support to assist enterprises to start and grow
2. Support innovation and technologies for new processes and product
development
3. Attract foreign and domestic inward investment
4. Simplify business regulation through the Better Business for All Project
5. Support local SMEs to procure public and private sector contracts

44. Achievements to date
• Significant private sector
engagement
• Inward Investment
working with UKTI
• Better Business for all
national pilot
• Development of the
Employment and Skills
plan

45. Achievements to date
• £19m Successful EZ bid for MIRA Technology Park
• £27m RGF secured
through rounds 1 and 2
• £400k secured for
LEP start up fund,
Capacity fund,
Growth transition fund

46. Achievements to date
• £14m Growing Places fund
secured
• Revolving loan fund which
re-cycled over 2 year period
• Currently 5 loans of £4.5m
have been granted with a
further £8m on offer

47. Latest News !
• Successful bid into a national government
programme ‘Regional Growth fund’ round 3
• £8 million LLEP SME Growth Fund
• Will provide 25% Capital investment grants
• Minimum grant funding £25k up to £150k
to businesses in the manufacturing sector
• Will create 312 direct and 936 indirect jobs
• Looking for Expressions of Interest now
• Launching in 2013

48. Thank you
• Contact Sue Tilley
• Sue.tilley@llep.org.uk
• 07880745876
• 01162 2528636
• www.llep.org.uk

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