14th Dec, 2018
It's one year since the government published its modern Industrial Strategy. As part of that first anniversary, Andrew Hodgson, Chair of the North ...
14th Dec, 2018
The government is due to consult on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund this year as indicated in the Written Statement in July from the Secretary of State ...
13th Dec, 2018
The Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds, recently announced a package of new measures to support LEP backed Skills Advisory Panels and call...
11th Dec, 2018
To mark the first anniversary of the government's modern Industrial Strategy, Christine Gaskell, Chair of the Cheshire & Warrington LEP and member of ...
5th Dec, 2018
LEPs and Mayoral Combined Authorities are currently building their Local Industrial Strategies, with the first ones due in March 2019. Here, Nigel Tip...
5th Dec, 2018
Jonathan Browning is chair of the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CWLEP). Here he sets out how his LEP is working with the Wes...
29th Nov, 2018
Saturday 1 December marks Small Business Saturday in the UK. In an exclusive piece for the LEP Network, Federation of Small Businesses Chairman of Pol...
26th Nov, 2018
Connected and autonomous vehicles are set to revolutionise the way people and goods move in the future, a key challenge of the government's Industrial...
12th Nov, 2018
The North East Growth Hub has just produced a Brexit toolkit for business. Here, Colin Bell, Business Growth Director at the North East LEP, sets out ...
22nd Oct, 2018
This week marks the start of a 'Stop Cartels' campaign by the Competition & Markets Authority. Here, their Director of Investigations & Intelligence, ...
12th Oct, 2018
Colleges Week takes place from Monday 15 October to Friday 19 October and is part of a UK-wide ‘Love Our Colleges’ campaign. Here, David Hughes, CEO o...
3rd Oct, 2018
Dr Ann Limb CBE DL is Chair of the South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership, and an educationalist, business leader and social entrepreneur...
2nd Oct, 2018
Mark Stansfeld is Chair of Worcestershire Local Enterprise Partnership (WLEP), a Non-Executive Director, Digital Technology Specialist, and 5G lead fo...
1st Oct, 2018
Christine Gaskell MBE DL is Chair of Cheshire & Warrington LEP, She has spent most of her career in the motor industry and from 1995 until 2012 she wa...
28th Sep, 2018
Dr Philippa Roles is a non-executive director of Thames Valley Berkshire LEP and a Partner at Field Seymour Parkes LLP. Dr Roles joined the LEP Networ...
24th Sep, 2018
Sara Uzzell became a private sector board member for Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership in July 2016. She has held several senior executive positions...
20th Aug, 2018
In the week when GCSE exam results are due to be published, it's important that employers and businesses, especially SMEs, are aware of further nume...
7th Aug, 2018
The Government recently published the conclusions of its review of Local Enterprise Partnerships, setting out their approach to strengthening the futu...
27th Jul, 2018
Jim Hubbard is Policy Adviser for Local Engagement, Property and Planning at the BRC where he leads policy work on devolving powers, transformational ...
13th Jul, 2018
As a charity, CPRE wants to see the best use made of England’s land resources in order to safeguard the countryside that we have. We can help LEPs inc...
12th Jul, 2018
The South West has economic development ambitions and potential to rival the Northern Powerhouse, says Dorset LEP chair Jim Stewart.
2nd Jul, 2018
Over the last three weeks, I have had the pleasure of chairing a series of roundtables with colleagues from across the country on the Industrial Strat...
29th Jun, 2018
Earlier this week, Bidwells published a research paper entitled ‘Branding the CAMKOX Arc’. In it, they outlined how the Oxford-Cambridge Corridor must...
19th Jun, 2018
Michelle Rainbow, the North East LEP’s skills for business manager, discusses the role of the North East LEP in helping deliver the government’s ‘Full...
15th Jun, 2018
Joint ventures have a lot of appeal for businesses and for good reason – they prove the adage that there is strength in numbers.
11th Jun, 2018
Steve Jermy is a board member of the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership and Chairman of the Marine Offshore Renewables Group. Her...
14th May, 2018
Wednesday 16th May is National Numeracy Day. Nearly half the working-age population have the numeracy skills of a primary school child and those with ...
8th May, 2018
In a piece cowritten by Rain Newton-Smith, Chief Economist at the CBI, and Ashwin Kumar, Chief Economist at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, they sugge...
21st Apr, 2018
For those of you who don’t know much about the International Business Festival, I’ll let the statistics speak for themselves: Our two previous events ...
