The document discusses how organizations can prepare to work with Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) to access European Union and other funding streams. It provides an overview of the LEP's role and priorities, including social inclusion and innovation. It outlines the LEP's economic strategy and funding opportunities available through the EU and other programs. Finally, it suggests organizations start thinking about needs in their areas, what they currently do, how they could help deliver LEP objectives, and whether they are ready to take on contracts.

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Shaping up for Local Enterprise
Partnership Contracts
Chris Head
West of England Rural Network
13th February 2014
(An overview of the LEP and European Union investment
potential & your organisations part in it......)
Fund It Workshop

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Agenda
• Understanding of the role of the LEP
• What’s going to be important for the LEP
• What’s Social Inclusion (& Innovation) and
why its important
• How you can get your organisation ready
• Making your organisation commissionable
• Working together but differently
• Follow up activities

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Regions to Local Enterprise Partnerships
9
to
39
Regional structure until mid 2010 LEP structure from late 2010

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http://www.westofenglandlep.co.uk/

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Strategic Plans
Structural &
Investment
Fund
Strategy
[SIF]
EU
Structural
Funds
City Deal
Strategic
Economic
Plan
[SEP]
Single
Local
Growth
Fund
West of England's Strategic Plan for Growth
Approx £59m
+ match over
6 years (from
2014) + Rural
£1.4m (from
2015)
Share of a
£2bn pot p/a
(divided by 39
LEPS) over 5
years
(from 2015)
Bristol City
Region Deal
(1st Wave)
£1bn pot over
30 years (from
2013)
Other Local
Plans &
Strategies
PLANFUNDING
LocalDevelopmentFrameworks
&CoreStrategies
Health&WellbeingStrategies
Local Major
Transport
Projects
Travel West
£44.9m over
5 years (from
2015)

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The LEPs Economic Strategy

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Business
Support &
SME
Place &
Infrastructure
People & Skills
Inward
Investment
Cross Sectoral
Interventions
High Tech
Industries
Low Carbon
Aerospace &
Advanced
Engineering
Creative &
Digital
Professional &
Legal Services
Project 1aProject 1
Project 2
Project 3
Project 4
PrioritySectors
Drivers of Growth
Interventions Matrix

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EU Thematic Objective
1. Innovation
2. ICT
3. SME
Competitiveness
4. Low Carbon
5. Climate Change
Adaptation
6. Environmental
Protection
7. Sustainable
Transport
8. Employment
9. Social Inclusion
10.Skills

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Social Inclusion
• Improving employability
• Promoting active inclusion and combating
discrimination
• Outreach activities and access to locally
provided services.
Social inclusion and combating poverty is
defined as provision for those beneficiaries
furthest away from the labour market.

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Social Inclusion
In addition, provision can assist in;
• Targeting groups
• Health and Wellbeing
• Improving educational attainment
• Improving family, parenting and
relationship intervention and access to
flexible and affordable childcare
• Homelessness, learning difficulties, life
skills and disabilities

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Social Inclusion
Now included in SIF
•£3m LEP + £3m match over six years
•Integrated strand
•BIG Lottery opt-in
•Bespoke design
•Targeted delivery
•Pathways to economic activity

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Barriers to work
Activities
&
services
Information
Advice
Guidance
(IAG)
VCSE
interventions
Outcomes
Destinations
Skills (formal
& informal)
Employment
steps
towards
employment
Breaking down barriers to work

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Social Innovation – why now?
• Identification of new/unmet/inadequately
met social needs;
• Development of new solutions in response to
these social needs;
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of new
solutions in meeting social needs;
• Scaling up of effective social innovations.
Social innovation describes the entire process by
which new responses to social needs are developed
in order to deliver better social outcomes.

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Social innovation approaches are:
• Open rather than closed when it comes to knowledge-
sharing and the ownership of knowledge;
• Multi-disciplinary and more integrated to problem
solving than the single department or single
profession solutions of the past;
• Participative and empowering of citizens and users
rather than ‘top down’ and expert-led.
• Demand-led rather than supply-driven;
• Tailored rather than mass-produced, as most solutions
have to be adapted to local circumstances and
personalised to individuals.

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Managing
Authorities
Outputs
Jobs,growth,GVA,
skills
EU Structural & Investment Fund
Growth Programme
Delivery Arrangements
Contractual
relationship
Co-financing
Organisations
Beneficiaries
Local
HMG
Teams
Delivery organisations
DCLG
DEFRA
DWP
Local Enterprise
Partnership
Projects

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West of England Voluntary Sector
Infrastructure group

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Why a ‘Delivery organisation’?
• Need for efficient/effective
commissioning
• Managing fewer contracts
• Accountability/risk/compliance
• Economies of scale vs local representation
• Using Social Value Act
• Working in partnership
• Working as a Consortium

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Start thinking about;
• What are the needs and opportunities in
your areas?
• What does your group already undertake?
• How could your group deliver the
objectives in the future?
• What would be the barriers to delivering
these objectives?
• Is your organisation commissionable?