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- What Is A LEP
  
  “..locally-owned partnerships between local authorities and businesses, playing a central role in determining local economic priorities...”
- Our Strategy
  
  “...removing barriers to growth, creating jobs across Coventry & Warwickshire, showcasing the area as a great place to grow a business...”
- Who's Involved?
  
  “...a proactive and dynamic public and private sector partnership”
- Get Involved
  
  “...consultation, Business groups, events and social media, your chance to discuss your barriers to growth...”
NEWS
BUSINESS GROUPS
- Planning
  
  “ Influencing policy and creating the spatial framework to encourage growth ”
- Funding and Access to Finance
  
  “ Identify barriers to businesses in Coventry & Warwickshire in accessing finance by segmenting the overall business finance market and understanding the differing issues relating to start-up, renewal of existing facilities and financing growth. ”
- Skills
  
  “ To develop local strategies that will ensure the provision of specific skills that are and will be required to support job creation and future economic growth and also develop strategies to help fill current vacancies in the job market. ”
- Low Carbon
  
  “ To develop a vision/strategy for a ‘low carbon future’. Priorities of the Group are; Low Carbon Mobility, Retrofit of housing stock leading on Green Deal initiatives and Smart Networks. ”
- High Value Manufacturing
  
  “ Opportunities presented by genuine supply chain collaboration and exporting are a strong theme. Access to finance and skills challenges are also a priority, helping businesses to become “investment ready”. ”
- Transport
  
  “ To act in an advisory capacity to the LEP Board on all transport matters (strategic and otherwise) and identify the transport priorities (led by economic criteria) to support the aims and objectives of the LEP. ”
- Small and Medium Businesses
  
  “ Aiming to develop and approve an SME Engagement Plan ”
- Inward Investment
  
  “ The purpose of the group is to develop the sub regional offer in terms of promoting all the great reasons why business should invest and grow their business in Coventry and Warwickshire. ”
KEY SECTORS
- Intelligent Mobility
  
  “The convergence of transport and communications”
- Advanced Engineering
  
  “Leading the way with technology and innovation”
- Low Carbon Vehicles
  
  “Building on our automotive heritage”
- Digital Technology
  
  “UK hub for Serious Games, a global leader in smart spaces”
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NEWS

CWLEP Planning Protocol

28.03.2013
The Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership's Planning Protocol is now available…

April deadline for £225m funding for housing developments

22.03.2013
Businesses and organisations have been urged to meet a deadline to help boost economic growth in Coventry…

LEP takes major planning move forward

14.01.2013
CW LEP has drawn up an agreed common protocol with the six planning authorities across Coventry and…

Innovation Council: Group Members

Group chair: John Latham - Deputy Vice Chancellor, Coventry University
JLatham@cad.coventry.ac.uk

Board lead: Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor - University of Warwick / John Latham

LEP support: Roger Dowthwaite
roger.dowthwaite@cwlep.com

Richard Hutchins (Director: JLR Programmes - WMG)
Phil Smith (Vice President UK - Cisco)
Carol Burke (Managing Director - Unipart Manufacturing Group)
David Keene (Managing Director - RDM Group Ltd)
John Cunliffe (Chief Technology Officer - Ericsson Ltd)
David Frost (Director General - British Chambers of Commerce)
David Grindrod (CEO - University of Warwick Science Park)
Andrew Moss (Chief Operating Officer - UMECO)
Luke Herbert (Head of UK Government Relations - JLR)
Myles Bremner (CEO - Garden Organic Ltd)
Derek Parkin (MD Business Services - EON )
John Kitchingman (Executive Partner - IBM UK Ltd)
John Robson (Regional Director, Commercial Banking - Lloyds TSB)

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Good businesses will always find a way to develop and grow
Brian Colquhoun, Yorkshire Bank

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Through the LEP Low Carbon Task Force, we are working to ensure that everyone - dependent on individual circumstances - can access funding to help lower their energy bills and reduce CO2
Cllr Alan Cockburn, LEP Board Member

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The work we're doing with the LEP to grow the low carbon sector in Coventry and Warwickshire which could create thousands of new jobs in the next few years in areas such as building sustainable homes, refitting existing homes and designing and building low carbon vehicles
Councillor Linda Bigham, Cabinet Member for City Development

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High-skilled, high-value manufacturing and engineering should be a central part of our long-term future
David Cameron

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Coventry & Warwickshire LEP has a high profile and very good connections at Westminster and we will be ensuring that lobbying continues
David Tucker, LEP Transport Focus Group

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Engineering underpins every aspect of our lives. As the bridge between scientific discovery and commercial application, engineering feeds and clothes us and enables us to work, travel and communicate
Lord Browne, former CEO of BP