1. Business Leaders’ Briefing
Thursday 10th December 2015
City Hall, Leicester

2. Corin Crane LLEP Director
Introduction
Corin Crane
LLEP Director

3. Leicester Business Festival
LBF Highlights video

4. How do you think we can improve on the LBF in 2016?
Leicester Business Festival
Over 80 events
25 events sold out
Over 5,000 tickets sold
80% of events were free
Social media reach of 782,658
1 x headline sponsor and 7 x Affiliate sponsors 2 x media partners
How do you think we can improve on the LBF in 2016?

5. Combined Authority
Stakeholders & public consulted on Draft Scheme & Governance Review
260 questionnaires returned
68.8% of respondents ‘strongly agreed’ or ‘tended to agree’ that a CA is the best governance model
Ambition of ‘asks’ will determine government’s response to size of Combined Authority
Devolution:
Detailed discussions start early 2016
LLEP leading on skills, business support and EZs
Transport and planning also being looked at.
We are now working to gather more detailed information on outputs and this will be supported by the evaluation next year. Projections are that we are on target to deliver on targets in the growth deal document.

6. CSR LEPs Core Funding Confirmed until 2020
Growth Hubs Funding until 2017
Remaining £4bn of Growth Deal to be released
Flexibility for Business Rates confirmed
FE Budgets left alone (for now)
Enterprise Zone Application turned down
Business Growth Service (MAS & Growth Accelerator) terminated April 2016
Visit England Budgets under threat

7. LLEP Board Engagement Strong track record of engagement
Stakeholder Engagement Strategy
What level of engagement do you want?
What works for you?

8. Skills & Employer Demand
There is a need for a detailed Employer Skills Demand study for SEP Refresh, Area Review and Devolution submission
A refresh of all the baseline information available
An independent report building on the Sector Growth Plans and based on conversations with local businesses
An independent report on productivity issues and hard to fill vacancies within businesses

9. MIPIM 2016 – Team Leicestershire
Wednesday 16th March
Power of 3 event with Derby, Leicester & Nottingham
A Question of Rugby with George Chuter & friends
Thursday 17th March
Beach rugby & lunch with Leicester Tigers
Ian Guyler co-ordinating Team Leicestershire £1500
Leicester & Leicestershire stand: Opportunity for sponsors’ logos on the stand and marketing materials
Actively looking to attract events to LBF16 and LBF17 

10. Growing Places Fund
GPF video

11. Over to you…. Thank you for coming this morning
Please share your comments, questions, thoughts and suggestions
Nick Pulley at