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northamptonshireep.co.uk Going Further, Faster. 2015 Annual Report
Foreword Contents Reduction in employment Unemployment in Northamptonshire
I am pleased to introduce Northamptonshire Enterprise Partnership’s (NEP’s) 2015 Annual Report, in what 4 Board Members has dropped to 1.5%, the lowest has been another excellent year. During the year, NEP has continued to deliver a comprehensive work level in a decade programme against a backdrop of reduced resources. 6 Our Vision
Northamptonshire’s economic growth continues with the number of businesses operating within the county 8 Economic Overview increasing year on year, and the level of unemployment at its lowest since January 2006. Importantly, skills Improved skills performance levels have shown further improvement, which is extremely encouraging given that the area has historically 10 A Strategy to go Further, Faster underperformed against national averages. Northamptonshire’s upward growth trajectory therefore Increase in individuals qualified to continues and that is very much down to the excellent businesses, people and local leadership that we have here. 10 Business & Innovation NVQ2 & NVQ4 has exceeded Increasingly, Northamptonshire is being recognised as a great place to live, work and do business, with Halifax’s Quality of Life 20 Employment & Skills national progress Survey recognising it as the third best place in the country to live. NEP has been actively promoting the whole lifestyle package to encourage teachers, engineers and construction workers to start, build and grow their career here, as our very vibrant labour market 28 Housing means that there is huge competition for skilled and talented people. 30 Infrastructure & Connectivity Top 3 for innovation During the current year, alongside our strong and historic focus on business and innovation, NEP has placed significant emphasis on employment and skills in response to the challenges that many of our sectors and businesses are facing in recruiting the right 33 Rural Economy Northamptonshire businesses people to help their business to grow. I was therefore delighted when NEP was invited to be one of the five national pilots for the Enterprise Advisers programme which aims to strengthen the links between the world of education and the world of work. The are ranked third nationally for 34 ESIF Northamptonshire pilot worked so well that it helped shape the national roll-out and has been taken up as a case study on the investment in R&D national website of the new Careers and Enterprise Company - an excellent example of Northamptonshire being really innovative and leading the way on a national initiative. 36 Local Programmes In 2016 we will continue to deliver in line with our four strategic priorities, further developing the work programme to move each of 40 Summary of Annual Accounts New company investments, these to the next level. NEP will also be developing and implementing its productivity plan to improve local performance which is not where we need it to be. 42 Governance Structure new jobs
Northamptonshire’s economy has real potential to grow further, faster and achieve our £20 billion GVA ambition by 2021, and I 44 Working in Partnership 23 new investment projects in would like to take the opportunity to personally thank all of our businesses for the excellent contribution that they have and will make towards achieving this. 54 NEP Team 2014/15 including Utility Bidder, Plant Lipids and DSV Solutions Finally, I would like to thank the Board and the NEP team for their commitment to Northamptonshire’s economy, its businesses and its people and for their sheer hard work in helping us to go further faster. helped create 750 new jobs
High ranking Quality of Life Northamptonshire has jumped 27 places to third in the country John Markham OBE Chairman, Northamptonshire Enterprise Partnership for Quality of Life* * Halifax Quality of Life Survey
northamptonshireep.co.uk Going further, faster 2015 Annual Report
Board Members “Developing a supply chain, promoting skills and training, improving connectivity; NEP is at the very heart of joining up sectors and business to create a more prosperous county.”
John Markham OBE Brian Binley MP Cllr. Tom Beattie Sarah Canning Jon Corbett Gerald Couldrake Pratima Dattani Chairman Vice-Chairman Leader Partner - Head of Litigation Head of Corporate Banking Company Secretary VCSE Representative “NEP is really putting Corby Borough Council Franklins LLP Barclays Howes Percival Solicitors Support Wellingborough NEP Chairman. Also Chairman NEP Vice-Chairman, former Northamptonshire on the Wellingborough Homes of the Northamptonshire Member of Parliament for Member of the Northamptonshire Recently appointed to the NEP Deputy Chairman of the NEP Company Sectretary. Provides Leadership Group which aims to map as a great place to Northampton South and Chairman ESIF Committee. Brings direct Finance & Audit Committee. Business & Innovation Strategy advice and guidance on ensuring Chair of the NEP Voluntary & improve partnership working and of Wellingborough based BCC do business.” promotes Northamptonshire. experience of working with trade Provides a direct link to local private Board. Strong supporter of the NEP meets its corporate Community Sector (VCSE) Group. Marketing Services. Brings On the Board of the Northampton unions to the NEP Employment & sector intermediaries networks. business growth and innovation governance requirements. Strong advocate of engagement Waterside Enterprise Zone. significant private sector experience Skills Strategy Board. agenda. with the social economy sector. to the NEP Board. “NEP is an important, effective and valued partner in promoting the prosperity of Northamptonshire.”
Stephen Davies Cllr. André Gonzalez De Savage Graham Goss Cllr. Jim Harker OBE Chris Hatfield Andrew Langley Victoria Miles “NEP has a crucial role Principal Northamptonshire County Council Chartered Accountant Leader Managing Director Managing Director Chief Executive Moulton College Greenslades Ltd Northamptonshire County Council David Wilson Homes Juniper Trading Northamptonshire Community Foundation to play in promoting and Chairman of the Northamptonshire supporting business Chairman of the NEP Employment & ESIF Committee. Nene Valley Board Chairman of the NEP Finance & Chairman of the NEP Infrastructure Deputy Chairman of the NEP Chairman of the Destination Nene Provides a strong link to the county’s Skills Board. Representative of the member and strong supporter of Audit Committee. Helps provide & Connectivity Board. Housing Strategy Board. Provides a Valley Board, leading the group’s hard to reach groups via the activities that add real Further Education sector. the NEP place marketing agenda. oversight and scrutiny of the NEP Representative of the local direct link with private sector house work to facilitate improved Northamptonshire Community value to the local and finance function. Transport Authority. builders. Nene Valley infrastructure Foundation networks. regional economy.” connections.
Cllr. Chris Millar Cllr. Steven North Prof. Nick Petford Bruce Ray David Reynolds OBE DL David Rolton James Saunders-Watson Martin Sutherland Leader Leader Vice-Chancellor & CEO Corporate Affairs Director UK Chairman Founder Owner Chief Executive Daventry District Council East Northamptonshire Council The University of Northampton Carlsberg Group North Northants Rolton Group Rockingham Castle Royal & Derngate Development Company Strong supporter of sustainable Strong advocate of sustainable Strong supporter of NEP’s Chairman of the NEP Food & Drink Chairman of the NEP Business & Representative of Chairman of the NEP Creative & growth across the county, also of a development and growth employment & skills agenda. Sector Board. Strong supporter Chairman of the NEP Housing Innovation Strategy Board. Strong Northamptonshire’s creative Cultural Sector Board. Strong place based approach to promoting countywide. Provides direct support Representative of the Higher of NEP’s key sector work and the Strategy Board. Also Chairman of advocate of Northamptonshire’s key industries. Strong supporter of advocate of Northamptonshire’s Northamptonshire. Love Daventry to Nene Valley based enterprise Education sector. annual Carlsberg UK the North Northamptonshire sectors and representative of local NEP’s new heritage and visitor creative industries and developing advocate. activity. Northamptonshire Food & Drink Development Corporation. HPT SMEs. economy strategy. visitor economy. Awards. Representative of the county’s rural food and farming sector.
04 northamptonshireep.co.uk Going further, faster 05 “It’s great to see a LEP really involved with all aspects of growth.” Sam Gyimah MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Childcare and Education during an Enterprise Advisers visit to Northampton Academy in October 2015.
Our Vision
This ambition remains rightly unchanged, as put simply Can Do - attitude to growth, importantly underpinned by we want prosperity for all of our businesses and all of our capable leadership, credible delivery arrangements and people, and to make Northamptonshire ‘the place’ to live, strong public/private partnerships with a serious track record work and do business. in delivery. Entrepreneurial Culture - characterised by high Our vision of Northamptonshire as ‘the place’ for growth is numbers of starts-ups and high levels of growth, based on what is unique to Northamptonshire’s economy, Northamptonshire really is the place to start and grow your namely it’s: business. People - one of the fastest growing populations, which Although our vision and ambition remains the same, our is forecast to grow to 774,832 by 2021, and 834,647 by activity to achieve these continues to move forward. During 2030. The area has outstripped national population growth 2015 we have been ‘serious about skills’ responding by 36% over the past two decades. This means there is an to the challenges that our businesses are facing in finding immediate and growing labour supply. skilled people to meet their growth and replacement Location - literally at the heart of England and the demand. A significant programme of activity has been put in national road and rail network, enjoying strong international place to help address Northamptonshire’s skills requirements connections including the A14 Trans European route (with and this will continue into 2016. the Port of Liverpool and the Haven Ports within 3 hours drive), five international airports within 1.5 hours drive, and There will also be an increased focus on the ‘productivity mainland Europe accessible in 2 hours by train via challenge’, working with our businesses to properly St Pancras International. Sitting within easy reach of understand this and develop programmes and activities to three major air freight hubs including East Midlands address it. Airport, the UK’s largest dedicated pure freight terminal, We recognise that our sectors will be key to both Northamptonshire is host to three dedicated rail freight productivity and skills and we will continue to work with our terminals - the Eurohub at Corby, Corby Intermodal Rail High Performance Technologies, Logistics, Food & Drink Freight Terminal (CIRFT) and the Daventry International Rail and Creative & Cultural sectors alongside financial services, Freight Terminal (DIRFT). wider manufacturing, professional and technical services to Assets - our economic offer is based around seven help them go further, faster. distinctive locations, which provides strength and depth to Northamptonshire’s economic base. Home to major Northamptonshire’s brand and reputation is rapidly growing businesses in a wide range of sectors including Barclaycard, based on providing a high quality, affordable business Northamptonshire’s Strategic Economic Plan (SEP) outlines a bold ambition Carlsberg UK, Tata Steel, Tesco Distribution, Yusen offer within the Greater South East. The range of assets Logistics, Silverstone Circuits, GE Precision Engineering and opportunities available to businesses means that for the economy, looking to increase economic value from £16 billion to £20 and Weetabix, all of which recognise the unique place Northamptonshire is the perfect location to establish and billion by 2021 and bringing about significant growth and prosperity for our offer. There is an excellent Higher Education offer with the grow a business and NEP will be working hard to make sure University of Northampton and Cranfield University on our that all businesses, investors, skilled workers, and home businesses, people and communities. This level of growth will create an doorstep and the world renowned universities of Oxford buyers recognise that we are the place for growth. and Cambridge less than an hour away. Northamptonshire’s additional 32,500 jobs, 1,600 new businesses, and result in 37,000 new heritage and cultural offer is world class, and brings houses being built to meet the needs of all of our people. something unique and different to our economy.
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Housing House building in Northamptonshire continues to recover with housing starts at 1,080 and completions at 830, Economic Overview moving close to levels that haven’t been seen since 2005. Affordability-wise, the average ratio of median house prices to earnings was 6.1 in Northamptonshire, compared Business and Innovation with 6.7 for England as a whole, meaning that housing is more affordable than nationally. Northamptonshire’s businesses continue to perform strongly on a number of fronts, with the number of businesses registered now standing at 27,110 (2014) compared with 24,785 in 2010. Importantly, 16.5% of Northamptonshire businesses were identified as fast growing, the 4th best performing LEP area in the country. Northamptonshire businesses also score well on innovation with Northamptonshire ranked 11th based on performance in a range of indicators including research and development (3rd) process innovation (5th) product and service innovation (9th) new to the market innovation (12th) and collaboration for innovation (27th) but scoring far less well on strategic and marketing innovation (31st). Northamptonshire - the PLACE for Growth
Growth projections through to 2023 are somewhat less vibrant with GVA growth per annum forecasted to average 2.1% compared to the UK average of 2.4%. Equally, jobs growth is forecast to average 0.8% per annum over the same period compared with 1.0% for the UK. However, the slower rate in jobs growth could be reflective of the already high job density levels, which remains at 0.82 compared with the national average of 0.80.
Innovation & Productivity Innovation in Northamptonshire is well-recorded and looks positive but productivity could be a lot better. Performance on GVA per hour worked in Northamptonshire has a far lower level of labour productivity, compounded by lower growth in recent years. At £25.30 per hour worked in 2013 (34th/39 LEP areas), labour productivity was almost a third (29.7%) below the productivity levels of our near neighbours Buckinghamshire. Converting a natural ability for innovation into improved bottom line production performance is a key focus for NEP’s work.
People The population of Northamptonshire continues to grow with 714,400 people living in Northamptonshire in 2014, a level of growth which had been consistent with the previous three years. However, whilst the absolute number of working age population has increased, this has decreased as a percentage of the overall population, a trend that has continued since 2007. The number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) reduced to 6,555 (1.5%), the lowest number since November 2004. The number of JSA claimants aged 18-24 at 1,255 is at the lowest level for any month recorded on NOMIS, which commenced reporting as from January 2006. Skills levels showed encouraging improvement with the level of individuals qualified to NVQ 4 increasing to 31% from 23.3% and NVQ2 increasing from 69.4% to 72%, which exceeded national progress but did not quite catch up with the national average at 73.3%. NVQ1 also improved from 83.2% to 84.1%, which moved closer to the national average of 85%. NVQ3 was the only qualification level that failed to make progress with performance moving from 53.5% to 52.4%, which differed from East Midlands and national performance with both showing an improvement.
22% of companies investing in R&D - third highest LEP area in the country in 2014.
In the same year, 16.5% of Northamptonshire businesses identified as fast growing -
fourth best-performing LEP area in the country. * Halifax Quality of Life Survey
08 northamptonshireep.co.uk Going further, faster 09 “Being introduced to NEP was one of the very best things that has happened to my business in 20 years of self-employment. 2015 Annual Report Building our Business Base The advice, support and additional services are a real eye-opener.” Janet Knowles, Director, Premier Mind Fitness
Northamptonshire Growth Hub Working with the Business & Innovation Department for Business, NEP, with fellow lead partners the University of Northampton Innovation and Skills (BIS) Our programmes and interventions to support Business and Innovation in Northamptonshire are and Northamptonshire County Council, has played a continuing targeted at small, growing businesses and a range of different sized businesses within the four strong role in the development of the Northamptonshire Growth Working closely with BIS has been a key feature Northamptonshire key sectors. Building strong foundations, supporting sustainable business growth Hub, a service that provides easy access to business support for of our work throughout the year. This has included and providing advice and investment to help improve performance and productivity are growing Northamptonshire business. helping other LEP areas (on behalf of BIS) to get all key actions for us. their Growth Hubs up and running, as well as the At the start of the year, at the Growth Hub’s first birthday event, local Business Support Simplification Pilot. NEP and the businesses supported by the Growth Hub including plus size clothing Northamptonshire Growth Hub were chosen as one Create a £20 billion economy and Create 70,000 new jobs company, Grrl Club, outsourced finance director service, QR3, and creative of three pilots to be funded by national government BY 2031 BY 2021 deliver 32,500 new jobs agency, Zinc Digital, talked about the help and support their businesses had to review the provision of business support across received. the Northamptonshire area. The report provides recommendations including Strategic Imperatives During the year, other events have focused on key development issues for increased support for businesses between early growing businesses including business planning, marketing and sales, access stage and eligibility, for national growth business to finance and export. NEP and the Northamptonshire Libraries’ support to do more to foster innovation and new Enterprise Hub have continued to provide tailored business support to product ideas and increased involvement of private Population pre-start-ups, new and established businesses referred by the Growth Hub. sector business support provision in the Growth Growth Hub offer. Growth Hub partners have secured In 2015/16, the Growth Hub has secured new funding of £250,000 from additional funding for 2015/16 and are bidding for Northamptonshire government to continue to develop the service and a Growth Hub manager European funding to implement and develop the has been recruited. The service is being developed to include local private recommendations in 2016/17. sector business alongside new national government initiatives such as the Business Growth Service. Improved Increased Innovation productivity CASE STUDY Big Bear Hire Delivered by: Strategic Priority Financed by: - Growing our Business To improve the productivity and competitiveness - Local Growth Fund Big Bear Hire is a Brigstock-based business Base of SMEs, through investing in innovation and - Growing Places Fund set-up in May 2015. Offering premium - Supply Chain targeted business support - Regional Growth Fund leisure hire products to customers across Development Northamptonshire and adjoining counties, the - European Structural and - Exploiting Our Export company’s aim was to establish new premises Premium Investment Fund Strategy and create further jobs within 12 months of - Attracting New - Local Public and Private Major Investment Opportunities operation. Investment Sector Finance Growth Hub, Sector Innovation Fund, INV-ENT, Locate Big Bear Hire approached the Northamptonshire Growth Hub for help which included mentoring and producing a comprehensive three-year business plan. Strategic priority: to support increased productivity Company Director, Kate Simpson, said: “From the outset, the support we received and competitiveness of Northamptonshire SMEs from the Growth Hub has been great, helping us to set direction and focus on taking our through investing in innovation and targeted business to the next level. NEP has also been instrumental in involving us in marketing and business support. promotional opportunities locally.”
10 northamptonshireep.co.uk Going further, faster 11 “I am constantly impressed with NEP’s ability to add value to our business in terms of direct business support and assistance in 2015 Annual Report generating new contract opportunities as well broadening our networks within the area”. Lyndon Sanders, Director, Axon Automotive.
Business & Innovation - Key Sector Development HPT Supply Chain Mentoring Driving Tech Change 2015 Programme Working closely with neighbouring Local NEP has implemented an HPT Supply Chain Enterprise Partnerships and UKTI, for the second High Performance Technologies Network Mentoring Programme, an industry-led initiative year NEP organised the now annual Grand Prix The High Performance Technologies (HPT) Network comprises 1,000 Northamptonshire companies which operates both up and down the supply business event ‘Driving Tech Change 2015’ which specialising in technologies including advanced electronics, precision mechanical engineering, chain, from OEMs to micro businesses. The was held at Silverstone during the week of the precision manufacturing and advanced materials and composites. These companies operate in sectors programme was delivered in partnership with Santander F1 British Grand Prix. which include motorsport, automotive, defence, aerospace and energy. SEMTA and has engaged 77 participants. Tangible results include enhanced industry connections Celebrating the significance of the motorsport and Supporting innovation, new product development and helping to enhance productivity is a key driver for our work in and improved capability and capacity within the engineering industry in the UK, Driving Tech Change this sector, which is directed by an industry group. Members include Cosworth, Scott Bader, Delta Motorsport, Rolton HPT supply chain. 2015 attracted a national and international audience of Engineering, Turnell and Odell, Axon Automotive and Silverstone Park, with additional support from the University of some 300 engineering businesses and featured 20 high Northampton and Cranfield University. NEP’s support for the network has included facilitating access to new markets and NEP has developed strong relationships with many leading profile industry speakers. Highlighting themed technology sources of finance, securing supply chain opportunities, helping to address skills and training needs and on occasion industry trade bodies and continues to promote the areas that stimulate new business opportunities in the identifying sites and premises in response to specific enquiries. Working closely with the University of Northampton and transferability of technologies developed within motorsport supply chain and provide a platform for encouraging Northampton College, NEP has also proactively promoted the benefits of Higher Level Apprenticeship Programmes to and automotive to other industry sectors. A current focus inward investment into the UK, the event demonstrated the network, jointly hosting an event to encourage local HPT companies to consider Higher Apprenticeships programmes for this work is the rail industry, with NEP proactively the product diversity and innovation that exists across as a mechanism for addressing skills gaps, attracting new talent and growing the business. linking HPT companies with supply chain and technology motorsport and automotive and other linked sectors such development opportunities. as defence and aerospace. NEP continues to work closely with individual HPT companies on a bespoke one to one basis, supporting their capacity to develop and create jobs in Northamptonshire. Examples of this support include helping GE Precision to recruit their first two apprentices and working with Axon Automotive on securing new contract opportunities with companies overseas. CASE STUDY In addition, we have recently developed a campaign to promote Northamptonshire’s strong HPT credentials to ex-Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) and, with the support of local developers, will make a compelling offer of Axon Automotive relocation support which covers both the jobs and the housing offer. Axon Automotive, based in Wollaston, is a Clean Tech company specialising in the application of its patented carbon fibre technology to a range of mass produced vehicles.
F1 Constructors and Drivers World Championship Axon is a small privately-owned company operating with Northamptonshire is home to both the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula limited capital. Their application to the HPT Investment 1 team in Brackley and the Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains Programme for funding through NEP was driven by the operation in Brixworth, collectively employing over 1,000 individuals and need to invest in the necessary plant to show its technology integral to Northamptonshire’s world class HPT supply chain. Working in can achieve the standards required for mass market car partnership with South Northants Council, NEP helped Mercedes celebrate production. The investment was also intended to fund their 2014 F1 Constructors and Drivers World Championship success by the process equipment and facilities needed to show car arranging an event for the local community. The Mercedes team spent the makers that Axon Automotive is capable of producing quality morning visiting local schools and this was followed by a parade and finally assured parts for volume applications. a reception where civic leaders welcomed Mercedes’ CEO, Paddy Lowe, together with members of the Mercedes team and acknowledged the The company is now making significant headway towards important contribution that Mercedes AMG makes to the local economy. building a business case for working together on long- term commercial collaborations with global target market customers and has also benefitted hugely from contributing to the NEP led Grand Prix business event Driving Tech Change event in its first and second year at Silverstone. 2014 and 2015 World Champions.
12 northamptonshireep.co.uk Going further, faster 13 “NEP and UKTI have been fantastic partners to us throughout these exciting times and we look forward to a 2015 Annual Report continued close working relationship in the future.” Metin Fevzi, Plant Director, Alpro
Business & Innovation - Key Sector Development Business & Innovation - Key Sector Development
Food & Drink Creative & Cultural Industries NEP has increased its support for Food & Drink companies in Northamptonshire in NEP’s work in the Creative & Cultural Industries sector is led by 2014/15. This work is led by an industry group with members from local companies an industry group including Royal & Derngate, local companies which include British Pepper and Spice, TMI Foods, Warner Edwards and Heygates. Balance and Engine Creative, the National Trust and the University of Northampton. We have strengthened our understanding of the NEP has been working closely with the Mallows Company, the University of sector in Northamptonshire in 2015 and have identified over 700 Northampton and the regional Food & Drink Forum to engage a wide range of Creative & Cultural companies and organisations. We have also businesses across the county and in particular in sub sectors Agriculture, Food Manufacturing, Drinks and Hospitality. tightened our focus to include four sub sectors: Digital Media, Textiles & Footwear, The Arts and Heritage. The action plan for 2015/16 highlights actions focused on increased skills development, promotion of Northamptonshire’s Food & Drink offer to a national and international audience Working with partners we are now pursuing funding to strongly support small and the development of a skills and small business support facility at Moulton College. and growing arts based and creative businesses to increase income and revenue NEP is also continuing to work with a number of strategically important companies in the generation, recruit new apprentices, open up new markets and improve productivity. Food and Drink sector countywide on a range of projects. These include Alpro, Greencore, Weetabix, Symrise and Carlsberg UK. This work has enabled the creation of more than 500 We are also working with the national Textiles Growth Fund to bring funding jobs and investment in excess of £70 million over the last two years. In addition, NEP will support for growing companies in Northamptonshire and we are targeting new invest £3.5 million of local Growth Fund money in the proposed Food & Drink Innovation company expansion and investment from London in both Digital Media and Academy at Moulton College. Textiles and Footwear.
NEP continues to support the Carlsberg UK Northamptonshire Food & Drink Awards in 2014 and 2015, showcasing great local product and growing Northamptonshire Food & Drink companies. Food & Drink Strategy Board Skills Pledge CASE STUDY Heritage World Centres on Northamptonshire CASE STUDY With the objective of raising the profile of Northamptonshire’s significant heritage offer Alpro not only locally but also regionally and nationally, NEP developed and ran a Millennium of NEP and UKTI supported Alpro UK with their recent expansion of their factory site in Burton Latimer. The £28 milion Monarch Making week in September 2015. expansion allowed the plant-based foods specialist to double its capacity and open three additional manufacturing lines Telling the story of Northamptonshire’s links with monarchy and its key role at seminal to produce products using almonds, hazelnuts, oats, rice and coconut. moments in English history, notable heritage sites countywide opened for visitors between The expansion created 50 skilled jobs in production, sales and marketing, adding to the 100 employees already based at 7-11 September. The campaign succeeded in raising the profile of Northamptonshire’s exceptional heritage credentials; evidenced not least by some 6,000 website visits, the site. The expansion will help meet the demand in the growing plant-based drinks sector in the UK. Northamptonshire Sir Laurie Magnus, Chair of Historic England 12,000 opened emails, 300 retweets, eight press articles and 180 visitors and conference has over 150 manufacturing companies with a strong core around the ‘free from’ sub-sector. delegates participating throughout the week. Metin Fevzi, Plant Director, Alpro said: “The strong growth experienced in Heritage Week culminated in the Heritage in the Economy Conference at Boughton House. This extremely well-attended the UK plant-based eating market enables us to invest in Northamptonshire conference attracted many of the leading lights in the heritage world, focussing on the important contribution that heritage by expanding the Burton Latimer site. NEP and UKTI have been fantastic can make to the economy. Presenting were Sir Laurie Magnus, Chair of Historic England; Nick Way, Director General, Historic partners to us throughout these exciting times and we look forward to a Houses Association; Ros Kerslake, Chief Executive of Princes Regeneration Trust and Taryn Nixon, Chief Executive of MOLA continued close working relationship in the future.” (Museum of London Archaeology) alongside several highly respected local and regional experts. The expansion was officially opened by Trade Minister Lord Livingstone on NEP will continue this work with partners, venues and practitioners countywide to build on the appetite for collaboration at a 12 March with Phillip Hollobone MP also present. heritage and visitor economy strategy development session at Althorp in October 2015.
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Business & Innovation - Key Sector Development Social Economy During the year, work started on quantifying and developing the contribution that the social economy can make to Logistics Northamptonshire’s overall economy. This work will result in a development strategy which will be implemented in 2016. Skills related issues have dominated NEP’s Logistics sector work. These include driver shortages and looking at initiatives to help address this, as well as increasing awareness amongst young people of the significant employment and career development opportunities available in the sector locally. Internationalisation NEP’s Internationalisation Strategy sets direction for NEP has supported Northampton College in the development of its Logistics Academy export focussed activity and for stimulating new inward and NEP sits on the Academy’s employer-led Board. investment in Northamptonshire. Our partnership with UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) is particularly important to NEP’s successful and regularly attended Northamptonshire HR Forum also strongly work in this area; we have worked closely with UKTI on a supports Logistics companies across the county, in particular through its Salary and range of initiatives in 2015 including agri-tech, automotive, Benefits Survey, now in its 12th year and widely used across the county. food & drink and financial services.
NEP is working with key local employers including companies such as John Lewis, Part of our Internationalisation Strategy is to engage target companies BMW, Kuehne and Nagel, Dalepak, CButt, Knights of Old and Dascher as well as the in London, specifically potential investors in digital media, textiles & Chartered Institute of Logistics and the University of Northampton to further strengthen footwear and financial services. Working with UKTI our efforts are and develop this approach through the implementation of a Logistics Sector Forum. centred on engaging companies who have recently entered the UK (e.g. London) market and now looking to enhance Early priority actions for this group include a bid for European funding to enable their UK operation with an additional cost effective base outside of London. Northamptonshire’s exceptional PLACE the development of a Logistics Demonstration Centre, enhanced support for skills credentials feature strongly in this outreach. development, a cross-sector approach to company mentoring and actions to support increased productivity. In March 2015, NEP attended MIPIM together with Rockingham, Stanton Cross and the Northampton Waterside Enterprise Zone. In addition to the several ongoing leads we were recently able to announce a £20 million investment CASE STUDY in the Sol Central development in Northampton, which was directly influenced by the strong MIPIM messages surrounding the renaissance of Northampton town centre. Staples Announced towards the end of 2014, Staples, the global office NEP has partnered with UKTI and Northamptonshire Chamber of Commerce on several supplies company with over 2,000 outlets worldwide in 26 countries, very well-attended Northamptonshire Export Events in 2014/15. A number of the moved into a 500,000 sq. ft. warehouse at Rockingham, creating attendees at these events are now successfully pursuing new export activity as a result 170 new jobs. of their attendance. One example of a company supported by NEP and by UKTI on their export activity is Timotay Playscapes, a Wollaston based company specialising in Staples approached NEP to discuss the advantages of supplying natural and innovative playgrounds. Having been supported to exhibit at trade Northamptonshire over other locations being considered at the time. shows and undertake market research, Timotay have gone on to successfully secure Attracted by Corby’s readily available workforce and cost-competitive and deliver projects in Dubai. proposal, the company made its decision to move to the town was made following a successful application for planning permission. Mark Fletcher, Supply Chain Director, UK & Ireland for Staples said: “This unit was the ideal choice for us. The central location and infrastructure of Northamptonshire is important to the valued efficiency of our extensive distribution operation and the size of the property is clearly an advantage over smaller, less accommodating premises. However, the sufficiently lower cost of the premises in comparison to other similar properties and the Attendance at the MIPIM property event in readiness of a suitable workforce really swung it for us.” March directly influenced a £20m investment “NEP and Corby Borough Council’s proactive and timely by Palace Capital into the Sol Central support made the whole process that much easier and enabled development in Northampton. us to make a fully informed decision about the move to Corby.” Mark Fletcher, Supply Chain Director UK & Ireland, Staples
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Business & Innovation
New Company Investments 2014/15 Attracting new company investment to Northamptonshire is integral to our internationalisation strategy; not least because new, expanding, dynamic national and international companies make a significant contribution to our improved productivity Utility Bidder performance. Over the past year NEP has secured 23 new company investment projects including Utility Bidder, Plant Lipids and DSV Solutions; these investments helped create 750 new jobs. Having grown rapidly over four years, sourcing the most cost-effective utilities contracts for their clients, Utility Bidder had outgrown their Leicestershire offices and were seeking a location that could provide them with the right premises for their continued growth in a professional environment as well as a ready supply of enthusiastic and motivated staff.
Plant Lipids NEP was able to assist Utility Bidder in identifying potential property options, and funding programmes Plant Lipids is one of the largest producers of spice oils and extracts in the world and the company was looking to (the company received LOCATE funding) available to them. They are now operating from premises at open a UK manufacturing and sales European Head Office to serve the UK and European markets. Pearson Academy in Corby. In the last four months 30 new jobs have been created, with more due over the next few months. Their search had led them to consider a range of locations across central England. However, CEO, Ranjit James Longley, Managing Ramachandran confirmed that it was NEP’s support in finding the Director, Utility Bidder, said: right property, the local network of food industry specialists who could “NEP were very supportive assist them in fitting out the building quickly and cost-effectively, and in helping us find the right the enthusiasm from the local councils that lead them to choose premises and understood Northamptonshire and Corby as their ideal location. exactly what we needed to “The positive response, support and hand-holding given by NEP be able to fulfil our growth is the sole reason why we decided to set up our new UK company plans. Their support in in Corby.” promoting our job vacancies and recruitment events has also been great, enabling us to grow our teams to deliver that business growth”.
DSV Solutions DSV Solutions were supported by NEP in their move to new premises in Raunds. At a total cost of £31 million, “NEP were very supportive in helping us find the right premises DSV’s investment involved relocating and understood exactly what we needed to be able some of their existing staff to the new premises, but has also now created a to fulfil our growth plans. Their support in promoting our job further 130 new jobs. vacancies and recruitment events has also been great, enabling us to grow our teams to deliver that business growth”.
James Longley, Managing Director, Utility Bidder
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Employment & Skills
Northamptonshire has one of the UK’s fastest growing populations. It is critical that our current and future Create a £20 billion economy and d workforce have the necessary skills and aspirations to meet the demands of local business and our work BY 2021 deliver 32,500 new jobs programme in this area balances the challenge of addressing both the current skills shortages and planning for the future.
Through NEP’s Employment Strategic Imperatives & Skills Strategy Board local industry and providers have a strong voice in the development High Jobs of the programme, which aims Population to ensure the right provision is in Density place at every level. The National Growth Careers Service Inspiration contract which NEP has secured Northamptonshire is fully integrated with the Meeting Northamptonshire programme Replacement and has brokered over 70 Improving & Growth activities in schools between business representatives and Skills Levels Demands young people to raise aspiration and knowledge of the workplace. Delivered by: Financed by: Strategic Priority - Developing Our - Local Growth Fund NEP has also been working to Future Workforce Improve the skills available to business, develop a 21st Century learning through delivering high quality education and - European Structural and - Meeting the Current environment, supporting the training and expanding the skill base Investment Fund Strategy and Future Demands University of Northampton and of the resident workforce. - Local Public and Private of Business Moulton, Northampton and Tresham - Developing the Sector Finance colleges to create outstanding Delivery Infrastructure places to study and learn. More generally, NEP is working with the university and the three colleges to ensure that the excellent joint working on curriculum development moves forward to meet the current and future needs of employers. Strategic priority: to improve the skills available to business through delivering high quality education and training and expanding the skills base of the resident workforce.
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Employment & Skills Bespoke Campaigns NEP is responding proactively to the challenges that our local industries are facing in finding skilled people to meet their growth demand. A number of projects have been developed to help address Northamptonshire’s bespoke skills Apprenticeships requirements, the Place to Teach campaign being an excellent example of this work in action. NEP’s new Place for Engineering campaign will be live in November 2015. Apprenticeships continue to be a major route into employer training and a key priority for NEP is to develop locally, government’s commitment to create three million UK apprenticeships by 2020. To this end NEP is currently reviewing the Northamptonshire Apprenticeship Plan and will continue to work Race to the Top closely with the Employment & Skills Strategy Board and local provider networks to increase both the NEP has been supporting the county council’s flagship initiative, Race to the Top, to improve educational attainment in volume and level of apprenticeships available in Northamptonshire, encouraging key sector employers Northamptonshire. This has focussed on working with the teaching schools to develop the Place to Teach proposition and to support the creation of more advanced and higher level apprenticeships. supporting schools to develop links with business.
Jobs Brokerage CASE STUDY Over the past year NEP’s Jobs Brokerage service has continued to provide practical recruitment support for businesses looking to employ young people. Place to Teach Campaign
Notable successes include working with Church’s to support recruitment for their rolling apprenticeship programme as Launched in July 2015, NEP’s year-round Place to Teach recruitment campaign promotes Northamptonshire as an well as their new management trainee scheme. Several Northamptonshire employers recently using the Jobs Brokerage excellent place to start, build and develop a teaching career. The strategy focuses on the recruitment and retention service for the first time include Creation Reprographics and GE Precision Engineering, both of whom have in turn improvement strand of the county council’s Race to the Top initiative, supporting the recruitment of talented supported the Love Bright Futures Campaign. As well as providing direct support to employers the project provides a teachers and trainee teachers by promoting Northamptonshire’s commitment to exceptional standards of teaching, strong platform for raising the profile of apprenticeships countywide. wider lifestyle offer, locational strengths and high ranking quality of life reviews.
In the coming months NEP will more closely align the Jobs Brokerage project with the Enterprise Advisers programme. The campaign positions Northamptonshire as forward-looking and keen to make things happen with serious A key element already underway is the introduction of NEP’s new Apprenticeship Ambassador Programme, already appetite for growth reinforced by teachers’ positive experiences of working in the county. With reference to example proving an effective mechanism for engaging young people locally. Apprentice Ambassadors have supported NEP at home prices and places, messaging is strengthened by the fact that Northamptonshire offers the most affordable various events including jobs fairs, parents’ evenings and pop-up job shops, and will have a strong presence at the 2015 homes in the country within a one hour Annual General Meeting and Conference. drive-time of London. See www.theplacetoteach.com for details. In recognition of her personal success, both as an Apprentice Ambassador and in her apprenticeship role with the British Footwear Association, NEP nominated one of its exemplary Apprentice Ambassadors, Lufuidy Paxi, for the The Place to Teach campaign has Northamptonshire County Council Youth Ambition Awards where she won the Apprentice of the Year title. performed exceptionally well in the initial two month period with participating schools and the University of Northampton all reporting significant interest in trainee teacher vacancies.
In November 2015, working together with participating schools, the University of Northampton and the national Get Into Teaching campaign, NEP will coordinate a Welcome to Northamptonshire teaching event at Northampton School for Boys. This will be supplemented by a new series of regional Place to Teach events.
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Employment & Skills “It is satisfying to know that my contribution to the Enterprise Advisers scheme will make a difference Enterprise Advisers Programme to Northamptonshire’s next generation workforce.” In September 2015, the official launch of the UK’s Enterprise Network, organised by The Careers & Enterprise Company, took place at the House of Lords - a milestone event for both NEP’s Enterprise Advisers pilot which was adopted for the nationwide programme and Northamptonshire with the CASE STUDY county praised for its significant contribution in Karen Kissane is passionate about her role as an Adviser several of the speaker presentations. The ‘inspirational’ life of a and the essential need to ensure schools and their students have the greatest possible insight into the Northamptonshire Enterprise Adviser job opportunities available on their doorstep and the A new work programme for the next academic year is changing skill sets required of young people as they start being developed, building on the learning from the pilot and Karen Kissane provides and develop their careers. from collaboration with partners to add value to existing sales training and provision. This work complements that of the National consulting to businesses in Her experience has been called on by various schools Northamptonshire, helping Careers Service Inspiration contract. in the county. She has delivered talks to sixth form them to find new opportunities students in small groups to inspire them about self- for growth, develop a business employment options as well as to younger students to The Enterprise Advisers (EA) pilot ran from October 2014 strategy or improve their sales to July 2015 and was a great success with 18 secondary highlight the types of work and opportunities that science training and sales processes. qualifications can open up - Karen’s background and schools getting involved to develop their links with With two young children, Karen training was in Molecular Biology and sales training in the business. also has a keen interest in Life Sciences. education and is a governor at her son’s school. The New Careers and Enterprise Company has been in Making a difference close contact with NEP since its informal evaluation of the pilot and has now adopted NEP’s model for the national As a recipient of NEP’s e-newsletter, Karen read an “Of course teachers play a critical role in educating roll-out of the programme. article by NEP CEO, Jo Lappin, last autumn which talked young people about the world of work, but they about one of two pilots NEP was invited to undertake may not be equipped to link with or understand the by government to support business growth, productivity The national roll-out has meant that we have been able to invite more schools and business advisers to join the changing pace of business. Also, as more people and innovation as well as to strengthen links between the than ever are starting their own businesses, I believe it programme. We now have 28 secondary schools signed-up for 2015-16 and a new set of Enterprise Advisers matched worlds of work and education. to their schools. has become essential for education to have a greater understanding of the processes involved.” As part of the Enterprise Advisers pilot project, a call was As a result of the Enterprise Adviser pilot, NEP has also been successful made for Northamptonshire professionals across a range “Becoming an Enterprise Adviser was an opportunity in delivering the National Careers Service Inspiration contract and has of sectors to become Inspirers in schools. I’m very pleased to have accepted. The exchanges I brokered over 70 activities in schools between business representatives have enjoyed as a result have been extremely fulfilling and young people to raise aspiration and knowledge of the workplace. A good fit on a number of levels and it is satisfying to know that my contribution to the “The appeal of the Enterprise Adviser initiative was that Enterprise Advisers scheme will make a difference to it was a good fit on a number of levels, both personally Northamptonshire’s next generation workforce.” and professionally,” said Karen. “In terms of business, it is important for local companies to give something Due to the success of the Enterprise Advisers pilot, back to their community and be keen to get involved NEP’s model for the scheme is now being rolled out in schemes like this which can offer hugely beneficial nationally. outcomes for everyone involved. For more information about how to become “The Enterprise Advisers programme advocates the an Inspirer in Northamptonshire, contact importance of connecting schools with the real world Kerry Senatore, NEP’s Education Business of business and commerce and enables Co-ordinator on 01604 609535 or email [email protected] Northamptonshire companies to invest in future skills both in the short and long-term.”
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Employment & Skills CASE STUDY Love Bright Futures Campaign Bright Futures A major campaign was launched by NEP in March this year aimed at giving Northamptonshire’s young people Developing Northamptonshire’s future workforce is a priority for NEP. Many local employers fresh insight into the many great career, training and apprenticeship opportunities available right on their doorstep. experience challenges in recruiting young people for apprenticeship and graduate trainee positions and the objective of the new Love Bright Futures campaign is to give local students fresh insight into As well as inspiring young people to explore the breadth of career breaks on offer locally, the campaign the many excellent career and apprenticeship opportunities available to them on their doorstep. encourages Northamptonshire businesses to appreciate the importance of investing in young people, essential for many to ensure sustainability and growth. As part of the campaign roll out, NEP developed a series of new and exciting Running throughout 2015 and with a monthly sector focus, companies large and small in all key sectors have activities to raise awareness of local responded positively, pledging to forge stronger links with students and schools, offer apprenticeships, graduate career opportunities including our hugely iPad trainee and work placement positions, and to participate in careers events. successful pop-up job shops in schools, attended by almost 500 students. The campaign features many of the county’s ‘real’ apprentices and prominent local employers already investing Many more of these events will run from in their young employees, and local schools contributed at the planning stages via focus groups to ensure the Spring 2016. messaging is relevant and credible. NEP is also planning to extend its For further details visit lovebrightfutures.com network of Apprentice Ambassadors who help promote the benefits of apprenticeships to young people, again in local schools. This approach has been well-received with Ambassadors participating in school events and activities countywide.
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Housing
Stanton Cross BY 2031 Deliver 80,000 new homes BY 2021 Deliver 37,000 new homes Stanton Cross Strategic Urban Extension (SUE) in Wellingborough comprises 3,650 homes and approximately 110 acres of employment land. Strategic Imperatives Following a launch event on 20th March 2015, Bovis Homes has placed a £24m infrastructure contract with Network Rail Infrastructure Projects Addressing Welfare for the rail and river bridges and the road network Population and Social Care Reforms to open up the site. Works are underway and the £9m contribution from the Local Growth Fund will Growth 11% be utilised towards this element of investment. above England Northamptonshire average Lower than average House building operations will commence on the first GVA per head phase of 500 homes later this year, with first occupations expected in mid-2016.
Strategic Priority Delivered by: Financed by: Construction Skills Project Ensure that the current and future needs of - Accelerating Housing Northamptonshire’s population are met by - Revolving Infrastructure In the NEP area, there are over 3,500 construction businesses and 27, 600 construction jobs. In July, NEP’s Development providing the right product, at the right Fund Bright Futures campaign focussed on construction and - Meeting the Housing Needs of price in the right place - Local Growth Fund challenged Northamptonshire businesses to recognise the the Current and Future - Local Public and Private importance of investing in young people, essential to the Population Sector Finance - Promoting the Economic Case 37,000 new homes by 2021 build programme. A careers - Growing Places Fund event at Moulton College, also in July, saw companies for Increased Housing Supply Major Housing Sites including Bloor Homes and David Wilson Homes pledge Corby North East, Daventry North East, their commitment to investing in young people and their Kettering East, Northampton North, careers in contruction. Rushden East, Stanton Cross, Towcester South
Strategic priority: to ensure that the current and future housing needs of Northamptonshire’s population are met by providing the right product at the right price in the right place.
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The main road infrastructure needs are already identified and agreed by partners, and through investment through Infrastructure & Connectivity the local growth deal many of these schemes are already funded and underway. Such as the A45 Daventry Development Link to allow development to be brought forward in Daventry, the A43 improvements to enable housing and employment development along the corridor, and infrastructure to open up the Stanton Cross development for further housing and employment opportunities.
Deliver 80,000 new homes Deliver 37,000 new homes Through further investment from the Local Growth Deal Northamptonshire will also benefit from enhanced Superfast BY 2031 and create 70,000 new jobs BY 2021 and 32,500 new jobs Broadband coverage, with an aim to achieve nearly full coverage by 2017.
During the last year NEP and its partners have commissioned a series of reports to understand any potential Strategic Imperatives constraints to growth from underpinning infrastructure such as utilities, rail and aviation. These studies will help to inform future investment priorities in each of these areas and ensure that Northamptonshire remains positioned to deliver its growth ambition. Demand for Housing Demand Market Ready Sites
Sustainable Transport Development Northamptonshire Gaps in critical enabling Alongside investment in unlocking the SMART CORRIDORS: Limited Move on Space main corridors through the county, WHAT, WHY AND HOW? infrastructure Northamptonshire is committed to ensuring A SMART MOVE FOR NORTHAMPTONSHIRE that we invest in wider measures to promote alternative and sustainable choices for travelling across the county. Therefore, Delivered by: Financed by: through the Local Growth Deal, investments - Transport as an Enabler of Growth Strategic Priority will be made in two key transport initiatives: - Growth Enabling Finance - Revolving Infrastructure Fund SMART commuting and SMART corridors. - Provide a Portfolio of Market Provide the necessary infrastructure to - Local Growth Fund Ready Major Investment Sites facilitate sustainable economic growth - Growing Places Fund - Increase Availability of Office - European Structural and SMART Commuting Floor Space Investment Fund Strategy With investment of £3.5m from the Growth Deal, - Environmental Sustainability - Local Public and Private this project will provide people across Northampton and Energy Sector Finance with informed travel choices and utilise innovative - Create Superfast technology to enable greater understanding of the Northamptonshire - Digital and transport network. The project will enable people to Communications plan their journeys more effectively and improve the flow of transport across Northampton. It will also align Northampton with ‘Smart City’ philosophy.
SMART Corridors Investment of £3.5m from the Growth Deal will support local sustainable bus corridor infrastructure Strategic priority: to provide the necessary improvements, focused on Real Time Passenger Information on five radial corridors into Northampton.
infrastructure to facilitate sustainable NEP has also secured investment from DFT to help further develop a number of important cycling routes economic growth. across Northamptonshire.
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Infrastructure & Connectivity Rural Economy
Wootton Hall Access Improvements Northamptonshire has a significant rural economy base with a very high number of micro Utilising £1.7m of Growth Deal funding, the £15m of funding and small and medium sized enterprises operating out of the rural areas making a significant Wootton Hall site will be opened up to enable contribution to employment and the GVA for the county’s economy. The rural communities the site to be brought forward for housing and towards A509 exhibit higher levels of business and entrepreneurial activity and have much lower commercial development. improvements. unemployment levels than urban communities, especially in the smaller settlements. Wellingborough A509 Development Link In Northamptonshire, the growing rural population is, however, increasingly deriving its income Through the Local Growth Deal, NEP from employment outside the traditional rural has secured £15m of funding towards economy, either by working in growing sectors of Northamptonshire’s improvements to the A509 in Wellingborough Over £450m pa the economy such as financial services, through Rural Funding Factsheet through Isham. This will reduce constraints commuting to major urban areas or by working and congestion on the road and unlock of economic remotely using ICT. Coupled with a changing significant housing and employment growth demographic in population there is increasing including at North Wellingborough and Stanton benefits due to pressure on local services and infrastructure. Cross in Wellingborough. The scheme is expected to commence in 2016. The Growth Midland Mainline In recognition of the importance to support and Programme diversify rural businesses and support the wider electrification. rural economy to make it sustainable, NEP held its Midland Mainline Electrification first Rural Economy Conference in June 2015. The conference has contributed to the development Countryside RURAL The electrification of the Midland Mainline is of a Rural Action Plan which is being led by a task Stewardship DEVELOPMENT a key priority for Northamptonshire as it will PROGRAMME force supported by NEP’s dedicated rural lead. 2014 - 2020 LEADER support improved connectivity and unlock The Action Plan has identified three key areas to growth. Having worked hard to make the case support: for Network Rail and government to reinstate funding to enable the investment to be made • Infrastructure: Ensuring infrastructure is in place to enable sustainable growth and avoid further delays, the electrification Countryside will now: • Economic Growth: Provision of business Productivity support and development to diversify incomes • Generate over £450 million of economic benefits to and create sustainable supply chains the region per annum • Social Environment: Develop a recognisable • Deliver a quicker and more reliable service; cutting brand to promote the county as a place to the journey time between London and the region work, live and play northamptonshireep.co.uk and increase capacity Through NEP’s Rural Growth Programme, funded Going Further, Faster. • Save the rail industry £60m per annum in running by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural costs Development (EAFRD), rural businesses will be • Reduce carbon emissions supported to enable them to develop their own economic base and to develop and diversify the wider rural economy. Northamptonshire also has two LEADER Programmes geographically covering all the rural areas which will support rural businesses and communities too.
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ESIF
Significant progress has been made at national level in reaching agreement with the www.northamptonshireep.co.uk/esif European Commission on the delivery of the European Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF) during 2015.
Between 2015-2021, ESIF will provide investment of over £47m in Northamptonshire which will support activities across all three of the European programmes.
This investment offers a unique opportunity for Northamptonshire to deliver the priorities of the Strategic Economic Plan (SEP). In particular, it will provide resources towards the delivery of the Business & Innovation and Employment & Skills priorities given the alignment with the priorities of the European Commission as agreed with the UK government in the operational programmes underpinning the ESIF funds.
The four core priorities for the Northamptonshire ESIF programme are: • Strengthening Innovation within the Northamptonshire Economy • Driving SME Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship • Responsive and Adaptable Workforce • Growing the Rural Economy
NEP has been working closely with government to put into place local implementation arrangements for all three strands of the programme across Northamptonshire - European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), European Social Fund (ESF) and European Agricultural Fund for Europe (EAFRD). An ESIF Implementation Plan has now been prepared that outlines delivery arrangements.
During 2015 several calls have been launched across all three programmes including support for innovation, support for SME competitiveness and low carbon development, support for individuals into employment and support to grow the rural economy. Good progress has been made towards the delivery of funding programmes. Following a number of calls in March 2015, more are anticipated by the end of the year.
NEP has set up a dedicated ESIF portal which includes latest information on live calls and links to all documents including the ESIF strategy and implementation plan. www.northamptonshireep.co.uk/esif
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Local Programmes
Alongside developing its strategic and investment priorities, NEP has continued to directly deliver a range of INV-ENT HPT R&D Investment Programme products and services that have helped Northamptonshire’s businesses to deliver economic growth and jobs. INV-ENT (Innovation & Enterprise fund) has been Funded through the Regional Growth Fund a successful initiative providing grants of up to and delivered in partnership with SEMLEP, Through this work NEP has directly supported the creation of 1,197 new jobs and 69 business start-ups and levered in £20,000 to small and medium sized enterprises the HPT R&D Investment Programme builds £43,769,942 to support local business growth. (SMEs) enabling investment to stimulate business on the foundations of the HPT Investment development and growth, supporting the creation Programme to offer further support in the Annual Full Year Against of new jobs in the county. form of grants of up to £1m to businesses in Targets Actuals Target the HPT sector specifically focussed on R&D 2014/15 % Funded by the county council and delivered by NEP, in the activity. past four years through investment of £1.3m, INV-ENT has 900 1247 138% Jobs created and safeguarded supported 105 local projects creating 489 new jobs, 137 Launched in January 2014, to date £3m of grant new apprenticeships and supporting over 1,000 people funding has been awarded to seven businesses with their skills development. across the NEP and SEMLEP areas which will create 18 23 127% New companies relocating to 291 jobs by March 2016, leveraging private sector the county In 2015, NEP and NCC secured additional funding from investment of £12m. 55 45 81% the national Digital Capabilities programme, funded by BIS, New business start-ups which enabled an INV-ENT round focussed specifically on AMG Systems, a manufacturer of ruggedized supporting businesses with digital improvements which transmission equipment for global applications Number of apprenticeships 15 49 326% included specialist adviser support and a series including traffic management systems, government, created of workshops. military, and public sites, based in Biggleswade were one of the first companies to receive a grant. 100 139 139% People supported with their LOCATE skills development Other grant recipients include GE Precision Also managed by NEP and funded by NCC, the Engineering, a specialist engine design consultancy People supported into 50 68 136% LOCATE scheme offered grants of up to £20,000 to and manufacturer of engine and chassis employment qualifying inbound SMEs. This was offered alongside a components for the automotive and motorsport comprehensive package of services and support to enable £20m £53m 265% industry based in Northampton, Ecospeed Marine, Leverage (total) the relocation to Northamptonshire. consultants and suppliers of innovative software, propulsion and hull systems to boat and ship yards Nine companies secured a LOCATE grant throughout in based in Bedford and Cosworth, manufacturers and 2014-15 enabling a total investment of £180,000. Included suppliers of electronics and powertrain products and NEP is one of the few Local Enterprise Partnerships that provides a direct support service to businesses, covering within those companies is Utility Bidder. Utility Bidder works engineering services to high-performance vehicle the full spectrum of support from start-ups through to established and growing companies. closely with businesses across the UK enabling them to manufacturers, motorsport teams and automotive access better value utility services. The company moved performance enthusiasts based in Northampton. A range of services are provided by NEP, including grant and investment funding, direct business support through the from Market Harborough to Corby in September with the Enterprise Hub, support to inward investors and support for training and recruitment through the Job Brokerage service. aim of creating 50 jobs in the county.
On the back of the support given to the High Performance Technologies’ sector, NEP has attracted an additional £6m of new funding for companies from a combination of Regional Growth Funding and European Regional Development Funding.
NEP launched the Northamptonshire Growth Hub in partnership with the University of Northampton and the county council, bringing together all of Northamptonshire’s business support services under one umbrella.
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Local Programmes
High Performance Technologies (HPT) Investment Programme Growing Places Fund The HPT Investment Programme provided grants of up to Investment in infrastructure to unlock development £100,000 to Northamptonshire businesses within the High sites continues to be of strategic importance to Performance Technologies (HPT) sector to support business Northamptonshire. growth and sustainable job creation. Through the Growing Places Fund, NEP has been able to provide Funded by the Regional Growth Fund and European Development Fund, investment of £4m to seven schemes leading to the development of the programme has awarded grants of £2.1m through six funding rounds housing and commercial sites, along with the creation of long-term resulting in 56 grants being awarded to businesses which will safeguard employment opportunities. and create 656 jobs and lever £12.5m in private sector investment, far exceeding programme targets. Enterprise Control Systems (ECS) is an A loan of £375,000 was awarded to support the construction of an advanced manufacturing technology firm based in Wappenham and has extension to Barton Seagrave Primary School which was completed supplied mission critical surveillance data links and RF (radio frequency) in early 2015. The extension has enabled the school to allow an inhibition systems in support of major event security around the world. increased intake which will result from the neighbouring housing developments at Hogs Hollow and Polwell Lane. To date 186 house With the HPT grant funding, the company has developed a new product have been built. to take to market without which ECS were at risk of going out of business. As a company they need to stay at the cutting edge of R&D, especially for Bulwick Estates was approved a loan of £200,000 to redevelop defence spend. and bring back into use derelict barn units into a number of small industrial/office starter units and one larger storage unit. Following The new product has enabled ECS to be more competitive and to enter a the completion of the development works in March 2014, a lease new market. It has generated a lot of interest and the company has also agreement is now in place with the Red Cross to use the units for a been able to develop collaborative partnerships with some prestigious training centre and staging area for disaster relief campaigns. SMEs. The product has been heavily marketed and ECS has secured product demonstrations with prospective clients, outperforming larger Funding has also been provided to the county’s Highways companies in the process. As a result, their first sale of the new product Department to support significant road improvements at St Johns/ has been secured. Plough Gyratory in Northampton to enable the development of the University of Northampton’s student accommodation at St John’s, hotel and restaurant at Albion Place and Project Angel, the location of the new county council offices. DTK Water manufacture and supply water testing equipment and reagents to test water quality in the industry. Based in Earls Barton, the company has been established for eight years and were looking for investment to enable them to increase efficiency in their lab; it submitted two grant applications to the HPT Programme.
The HPT grants have given DTK the boost that was needed for them to invest in further growth opportunities for the business. The flexibility of the grant enabled them to invest in both research and capital elements of the business.
DTK focus on providing employment opportunities for young people and believe in giving them the opportunity to put learning into practice and grow their skills as the business develops. The grant has provided this opportunity and has created a job for a local graduate.
Moving forward the grant has given DTK a competitive edge which it is hoped will position the business well and enable further growth.
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Summary of Annual Accounts
Balance Sheet - Year ended 31 March 2015 Detailed Profit & Loss Account -Year ended 31 March 2015
2015 2014 2015 2014 £ £ £ £
Fixed assets Turnover Tangible assets 15,096 10,817 Local Authority income 795,162 839,585 NCC Capital funding 1,200,000 1,277,904 Current assets Other public funding 2,917,370 287,370 Debtors 89,171 40,448 Private sector 127,147 15,115 Cash at bank and in hand 3,617,298 2,411,099 Deferred income 3,706,469 2,451,547 Mobile TIC 5,039,679 2,419,974 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (3,471,524) (2,210,474) Cost of Sales Net current assets 234,945 241,073 Project costs (3,884,168) (1,126,999) Project delivery costs (672,876) (785,377) Total assets less current liabilities 250,041 251,890 Total cost of sales (4,557,044) (1,912,376)
Net assets 250,041 251,890 Gross Profit 482,635 507,598 Corporate and establishment costs 489,390 487,670 Reserves Profit and loss account 250,041 251,890 Other Operating Income Bank interest receivable 6,133 3,362 Surplus 250,041 251,890 Surplus on ordinary activities (622) 23,288
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Governance Structure
NEP, like other Local Enterprise Partnerships, has taken on responsibilities for government’s Local Growth Funding and the NEP Board* Northamptontonshire ESIF programme, both of which are being Prosperity Programme Strategic Growth agenda and delivered from 2015, alongside local economic development Management private sector accountability Board funding provided by the county council. It is essential that the planning for, and delivery of this funding, is subject to the highest Democratic and Financial standards of transparency, accountability and visibility. Accountability Operational Arm of LEP Board Accelerating Growth Enabling Growth The NEP Board therefore agreed to develop new governance arrangements, which became operational in 2014. These were designed to drive forward Growth growth in Northamptonshire; provide wide partnership Implementation input to strategy development and delivery; meet Board Business Employment Infrastructure central government’s tests for LEP governance and leadership arrangements; and importantly discharge the & & Housing & financial, democratic and private sector accountability Innovation Skills Connectivity requirements for devolved funding.
These arrangements bring together private, public and voluntary and community sector partners to drive Local Strategy Boards forward the delivery of the SEP and ESIF Strategy, and Delivery ensure that NEP’s business is delivered to the highest HPT standards of propriety and transparency. Teams
In addition to the wider partnership governance structure, NEP as a company limited by guarantee has a Finance and Audit Committee, which provides ongoing Logistics scrutiny to the business and its operations.
Northamptonshire Finance & Audit ESIF Sub-Committee Committee Food & Drink
Creative & Cultural
* Fulfils Local Transport Body functions
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Working in Partnership
NEP has developed its governance structure to ensure that a wide range of public, private, voluntary, community and other partners are involved in driving forward our business. It is ensuring that we continually operate to the highest standards of propriety in the best interests of Northamptonshire, its businesses and its people.
NEP Board Business & Innovation Strategy Board Chair: John Markham OBE Chair: David Rolton Founder, Rolton Group Deputy Chair: Jon Corbett Head of Corporate Banking, Barclays Brian Binley Vice-Chairman Cllr. Tom Beattie Leader, Corby Borough Council Maxine Aldred Development Manager, Federation of Small Businesses Sarah Canning Partner, Head of Litigation, Franklins LLP Simon Bowers Business Manager, Daventry District Council Jon Corbett Head of Corporate Banking, Barclays Philip Bruce Formerly Scott Bader Gerald Couldrake Company Secretary, Howes Percival Solicitors Claire Cowland Lead Officer, Economic Development & Tourism South Northamptonshire Council Pratima Dattani VCSE Representative, Support Wellingborough, Wellingborough Homes Gerald Davies Deputy Principal Resources and Development, Moulton College Stephen Davies Principal, Moulton College Paul Griffiths Chief Executive, Northamptonshire Chamber of Commerce Cllr. André Gonzalez De Savage Northamptonshire County Council Ian Harrison Regional Director, UKTI Graham Goss Chartered Accountant, Greenslades Ltd. Stuart Hartley Director, Incrementa Consulting Ltd. Cllr. Jim Harker OBE Leader, Northamptonshire County Council Linda Lee-Davies Principal Lecturer Corporate & CPD, University of Bedfordshire Chris Hatfield Managing Director, David Wilson Homes Nicola Mackenzie Funding and Regeneration Officer, Borough Council of Wellingborough Andrew Langley Managing Director, Juniper Trading Scott McGinley Commercial Director, Dalepak Victoria Miles Chief Executive, Northamptonshire Community Foundation Asif Mohammed Managing Director & Co Founder, Hendrix Media Cllr. Chris Millar Leader, Daventry District Council David Oliver Chief Executive, East Northamptonshire Council Cllr. Steven North Leader, East Northamptonshire Council Janette Pallas Manager, Northamptonshire Growth Hub Prof. Nick Petford Vice-Chancellor & CEO, University of Northampton David Scott Chairman, Scotts of Thrapston Bruce Ray Corporate Affairs Director UK, Carlsberg Group Stephen Smith Chief Executive, EMB Group David Reynolds OBE DL Chairman, North Northants Development Company David Shutts Regional Director, CBI David Rolton Founder, Rolton Group Martin Sutherland Chief Executive, Royal & Derngate James Saunders-Watson Owner, Rockingham Castle David Ward Strategy & Business Development Manager, Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire Martin Sutherland Chief Executive, Royal & Derngate Syed Ziaullah Chairman, Action Express
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Employment & Skills Strategy Board Housing Strategy Board Chair: Stephen Davies Chief Executive & Principal, Moulton College Chair: David Reynolds OBE DL Chairman, NNDC Deputy Chair: Cllr. Tom Beattie Leader, Corby Borough Council Deputy Chair: Chris Hatfield Managing Director, David Wilson Homes
Pat Brennon-Barrett Principal, Northampton College Charles Amies Director, Midlands HCA Paula Bright Senior Executive, Connexions Claire Berry Development Plans Team Leader, WNJPU Mike Brightman Senior Union Support Officer, TUC Unionlearn Roy Boulton Assistant Director, Northamptonshire Highways, Anna Clarke Employer and Delivery Services Manager, Skills Funding Agency Northamptonshire County Council Tim George Department for Work and Pensions Gary Brough Director of Estates, Northampton College Martin Hammond Deputy Chief Executive, Kettering Borough Council Steve Butterworth Housing Coordinator, Corby Borough Council Don Hayes Chief Executive Officer, Enable Carol Cairns Area Manager, HCA Sara Homer Executive Chairman, Brackmills Estate Bob Colenutt Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences, University of Northampton Greg Kirkman Managing Director, Ensafe Consultants Adrian Colwell Head of Strategic Planning and the Economy, Andy Lawrence Managing Director, Maxim Logistics Group Ltd South Northamptonshire Council Alison Lyon Adult Learning Services Manager, Northamptonshire County Council Jane Fradgley Development Manager, Orbit Homes Nicola Mackenzie Borough of Wellingborough Ron Harbour Head of Development Services, Kettering Borough Council Sharn Matthews Executive Director, East Northamptonshire Council Joanne Harrison Strategic Housing Manager, South Northamptonshire Council Cllr. John McGhee Northamptonshire County Council Ian Jackson Director of Development, Longhurst Group Ged McHugh Economic Development Office, Corby Borough Council Vicki Jessop Principal Housing Manager, Borough Council of Wellingborough Victoria Miles Chief Executive, Northamptonshire Community Foundation April Knapp Regional Development Manager, EMH Group Mark Sawyer Managing Director, IPS Global John Lagan Development Director, Lagan Group Alan Smith Chief Executive, Nital Andrew Longley Planning Manager, JPU Julie Trahern Head of Income & Debt, Kettering Borough Council Jacqui Page Housing Strategy Manager, Corby Borough Council Ian Vincent Chief Executive, Daventry District Council Victoria Phillipson Principal Planning Policy & Regeneration Manager, Mairie Watson Deputy Dean, Development, University of Northampton Borough Council of Wellingborough Stuart Wesselby Principal, Tresham College David Reed Head of Planning Services, East Northamptonshire Council Paul Shepherd Land Manager, Larkfleet Homes Colin Staves Principal Spatial Planner, WNJPU Caroline Wardle Chief Executive, NNDC Richard Wood Local Strategy Manager, Daventry District Council
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Infrastructure & Connectivity Strategy Board Northamptonshire ESIF Committee Chair: Cllr Jim Harker OBE Leader, Northamptonshire County Council Chair: Deputy Chair: Cllr. André Gonzalez De Savage Northamptonshire County Council James Saunders-Watson Owner, Rockingham Castle Deputy Chair: Melanie Crunkhorn ERDF Governance Manager, DCLG Nick Bolton Founder, Electric Corby Michelle Booth Service Administrator, University of Northampton Ian Achurch Head of External Funding & Partnerships, Simon Bowers Business Manager, Daventry District Council Northamptonshire County Council Steve Boyes Director of Regeneration, Enterprise & Planning, Lee Barron Regional Secretary, TUC Northampton Borough Council Cllr. Tom Beattie Leader, Corby Borough Council Chris Carlisle Director, Decorum Estates Simon Bovey Chairman, Northamptonshire LNP Tony Ciaburro Director of Environment, Development & Transport, Steve Boyes Director of Regeneration, Enterprise & Planning, Northamptonshire County Council Northampton Borough Council Gerald Davies Deputy Principal Resources & Development, Moulton College Jane Carr Chief Executive, Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire Simon Dishman Northamptonshire Chamber of Commerce Anna Clarke Employer & Delivery Services Manager, SFA Matt Easter Regional Director of Office Agency, Sustrans Daniel Curtis Principal Officer Sustainable Communities, Environment Agency Mark Hall Director of Finance, Infrastructure, IT and Commercial Services, Barry Davies Chair, National Farm Attractions Network University of Northampton Prof. Simon Denny Director of Research Impact & Enterprise, University of Northampton Alex Jelley Economic and Regeneration Manager, Kettering Borough Council Phoebe Edwards Executive Director, EMB Ltd. Gareth Jenkins Head of Bid Management, BT Group Andrea Hughes Director of Employer Engagement and Marketing, Moulton College Ian Leather Regional Director of Office Agency, Lambert Smith Hampton Jay Kara Senior Programme Manager, DWP Ged McHugh Economic Development Officer, Corby Borough Council Matt Latham Programme Manager, Environment Agency Andrew Longley Planning Manager, NNJPU Karen Lewis Strategic Bidding Manager, University of Northampton Paul Minton Chairman, Northampton Rail Users Group Danny Moody Chief Executive, Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils Steve Pearce Patch Manager, Highways England Jacqueline Moody ESIF Sub-Commitee Secretariat, DCLG Victoria Phillipson Principal Planning Policy & Regeneration Manager, Jan Pinkerton Assistant Director, BIS Borough Council of Wellingborough Emma Powlett Rural Management Consultant Nicholas Roberts Partner, Drake Commercial LLP Anjona Roy Chief Executive, Rights & Equalities Council Northamptonshire Colin Staves Principal Spatial Planner, WNJPU Michael Stubbs Regional Director, DEFRA Paul Tomlinson Associate, URS Greg Ward Lead Officer, Economic Development and Tourism, Greg Ward Lead Officer, Economic Development and Tourism, South Northamptonshire Council South Northamptonshire Council Richard Woods European Office, Northamptonshire County Council Andy Wilkinson Midlands Flood and Coastal Risk Manager, Environment Agency Chris Wragg Team Leader, Transport Planning, Northamptonshire County Council Bill Wright Business Development Manager, Parkway MK
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Finance & Audit Sub-Committee Logistics Sector Board Chair: Graham Goss Chartered Accountant, Greenslades Ltd. Chair: Scott McGinley Commercial Director, DalePak Ltd.
Sarah Canning Partner, Head of Litigation - Franklins LLP Paul Abbott Group Director, Knights of Old Gerald Couldrake Company Secretary, Howes Percival Solicitors Steve Agg CEO, The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK Andrew Langley Managing Director, Juniper Trading Tony Ciaburro Director Environment Development & Transport, Cllr. Bill Parker Northamptonshire County Council Northamptonshire County Council Paul Davey Head of Corporate Affairs, Hutchison Ports UK Ltd. Liam Fassam Lecturer in Operation & Supply Chain Management, University of Northampton Andrew Gough Associate Professor, University of Northampton Prosperity Board Elaine Harries Managing Director, Action Express Ltd. Chair: John Markham OBE Chair, NEP Mark Simmons HR Director, XPO Logistics Frank Ring Director, Business Development, Prism DM Cllr. Tom Beattie Leader, Corby Borough Council Phil Oakley Director, Market Officer, Prologis Cllr. Paul Bell Leader, Borough Council of Wellingborough Gareth Farbon Relationship Director, Barclays Bank Cllr. Jim Harker OBE Leader, Northamptonshire County Council Sally Gilson Skills Policy Development Manager, Freight Transport Association Cllr. Mary Markham Leader, Northampton Borough Council John Howells Southern & Eastern Director, Road Haulage Association Cllr. Ian McCord Leader, South Northamptonshire Council Richard Brodrick Supply Chain Director, Harvey Nichols Cllr. Chris Millar Leader, Daventry District Council Kevin O’Brian National Health & Safety Manager, CButt Cllr. Steven North Leader, East Northamptonshire Council James Whybrow Assistant Principal, Employer Engagement and Enterprise, Cllr. Russell Roberts Leader, Kettering Borough Council Northampton College Nicky Holdcroft UK HR Manager, Dachser Geoff Dowse Manager NDC Transport Operations, John Lewis Anna Clarke SFA Growth Implementation Board Chair: John Markham OBE Chair, NEP Food & Drink Sector Board Paul Blantern Chief Executive, Northamptonshire County Council Joint Chair: Declan Kennedy General Manager, TMI Foods John Campbell Chief Executive, Borough Council of Wellingborough Joint Chair: Ian James Chief Executive, British Pepper & Spice David Cook Chief Executive, Kettering Borough Council David Kennedy Chief Executive, Northampton Borough Council David Brown Owner, Beckworth Emporium Jo Lappin Chief Executive, Northamptonshire Enterprise Partnership Gerald Davies Deputy Principal, Moulton College David Oliver Chief Executive, East Northamptonshire Council Ed Haslam Head of HR Operations, Weetabix Sue Smith Chief Executive, Cherwell and South Northamptonshire Council Paul McManus Director, McManus Pubs Ltd. Norman Stronach Chief Executive, Corby Borough Council Alaric Neville Managing Director, NBC Phipps Ian Vincent Chief Executive, Daventry District Council Laurie Pearson Technical Manager, Heygates Adrian Pryce Senior Lecturer, University of Northampton Tom Warner Founding Partner, Warner Edwards Robert Whittle General Manager, Pidy UK Andrea Brown Commercial Head of HR, Carlsberg Group Ashley Clarkson Food and Beverage Specialist, Grant Thornton Duncan Farrington Founder and Managing Director, Farrington Oils Peter Dundas Managing Director, FFP Packaging
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Creative & Cultural Sector Board Chair: Martin Sutherland Chief Executive, Royal and Derngate
Simon Fitch Senior Manager, Funding Programmes, Arts Council Suzanne Fairey Commercial Director, Northants County Cricket Club Darren Walter Theatre Director, The Castle Theatre Carol MacIntyre-Jones Company Director, Nene Valley Boats Julie Teckman Head of the School of the Arts, Northampton College Laura Malpas Visitor Services and Community Manager, National Trust Neil Webb Director, Balance Tony Klinger Film and Media Expert Andy Wise Strategic Director, Engine Creative Julie Seddon Director of Customers and Communities, Northampton Borough Council Steven Taylor Deputy Dean Media, English and Culture, and Performance, University of Northampton Nisha Mejer Marketing and Evaluation Assistant, Northampton Museum & Art Gallery Morag Ballantyne Chair, Corby Cube Theatre Trust
High Performance Technology Sector Board Pio Szyjanowicz Head of Communications and Partnerships, Cosworth Ian Chapman Head of Regional Engagement & Corporate Projects, Cranfield University Simon Dowson Managing Director, Delta Motorsport John Sinclair Deputy Dean, School of Science and Technology, The University of Northampton Philip Bruce Former CEO, Scott Bader Lyndon Sanders Director and General Manager, FAR-UK Ltd. Julian Winch General Manager, Snap-on Finance UK Stuart Banks Managing Director, Stuart Banks Engineering Luke Hampton Supply Chain Development Manager, SMMT David Rolton Chairman, Rolton Group Karen Holland CEO, XCAM Alan Waights Principal Engineer, GE Intelligent Platforms Roz Bird Commercial Director, Silverstone Park Clive Odell Managing Director, Turnell and Odell Ltd. Simon Rennie General Manager, Siemens’ National Training Academy for Rail HPT Sector Board and colleagues at Silverstone for Driving Tech Change 2015.
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NEP Team
NEP’s effective development and delivery of strategic economic investment programmes including SEP and the recent and ongoing implementation of the ESIF strategy in Northamptonshire is undiminished and Chief Executive’s Office continues to enhance the county’s reputation for economic planning and growth achievement. Debbie Roe Executive PA to Chair, Chief Executive & Office Manager The NEP team accountable for this success is and consists of highly motivated and dedicated specialists, carefully resourced 01604 609 393 to undertake specific strategy objectives and related campaigns over a period of time. Working strongly in partnership via last [email protected] year’s new governance arrangements, the team offers a melting pot of sound experience and expertise as well as a broad understanding of the locality, its characteristics and extensive economic ambitions. Jo Lappin Chief Executive Officer Eleanor Masters Apprentice Administration Officer The current team arrangements befit NEP’s determination to manage performance and in-house delivery of NEP services 01604 609 544 01604 609 393 at the best possible operating levels, ensuring the equally effective and robust delivery management of both national and [email protected] [email protected] European funding and the localised programme agenda.
Business & Innovation Marketing & Communications Tim Bagshaw Kate Dent Sajeeda Rose Head of Business & Innovation Head of Communications Chief Operating Officer 01604 609 392 01604 609 537 01604 609 548 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Jonathan Nunn Gill Birkett Programme Management Employment & Skills Internationalisation Manager Marketing Executive - New Media Rebecca Goodchild Kerry Mainwaring 01604 609 533 01604 609 532 Programme Assistant Education Business Co-ordinator [email protected] [email protected] 01604 609 382 01604 609 396 [email protected] [email protected] Charlotte Patrick Mark Hillier Business Development Manager Marketing Executive - Content Julie Hardisty Kerry Senatore 01604 609 397 01604 609 399 Programme Assistant Education Business Manager [email protected] [email protected] 01604 609 541 01604 609 535 [email protected] [email protected] Julia Schumacher Ben Mainwaring Business Relationship Manager Marketing Executive - Digital & Production Cathy Martin Jo Stewart 01604 609 386 01604 609 540 Senior Programme Manager Employment and Skills Manager [email protected] [email protected] 01604 609 385 01604 609 993 [email protected] [email protected]
June Meadows Louise West Head of Finance Employment and Skills Co-ordinator 01604 609 534 01604 609 546 [email protected] [email protected]
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