Newsletter sign-up | 01603 510070 info@newanglia.co.uk

New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) for Norfolk & Suffolk
  • About Us
    • Our Board
    • Sub Boards and Committees
    • Our Team
    • Governance, Decision Making and FAQs
      • Policies
    • Contact Us
    • Careers
    • Tenders
  • Supporting Businesses
    • New Anglia Growth Hub
    • Grants and Support
      • Small Grant Scheme
      • Growing Business Fund
      • Growing Places Fund
      • Invest East
      • Oil and Gas Business Support Scheme
      • Start-Up Programme
      • New Anglia Capital
      • Eastern Agri-Tech Grants
      • Community Challenge Fund
    • Apprenticeship Levy Transfer
    • Boosting Skills for Young People
    • Developing Skills for Businesses
    • Enterprise Zones
  • Growing Our Economy
    • Economic Strategy for Norfolk and Suffolk
    • Local Industrial Strategy
    • Our Investment Map
    • Our Sectors
    • Growth Deal
      • Growth Deal Projects
      • Project Timeline
    • The Innovative Projects Fund
    • Inward Investment
    • Infrastructure
      • Great Eastern Rail Campaign
    • Ipswich Vision
    • City Deals
    • Green Economy Pathfinder
    • Europe
  • News & Publications
    • News and Blogs
    • Case studies
    • Publications
  • Norfolk & Suffolk Unlimited
  • Brexit – advice for your business
  • About Us
    • Our Board
    • Sub Boards and Committees
    • Our Team
    • Governance, Decision Making and FAQs
      • Policies
    • Contact Us
    • Careers
    • Tenders
  • Supporting Businesses
    • New Anglia Growth Hub
    • Grants and Support
      • Small Grant Scheme
      • Growing Business Fund
      • Growing Places Fund
      • Invest East
      • Oil and Gas Business Support Scheme
      • Start-Up Programme
      • New Anglia Capital
      • Eastern Agri-Tech Grants
      • Community Challenge Fund
    • Apprenticeship Levy Transfer
    • Boosting Skills for Young People
    • Developing Skills for Businesses
    • Enterprise Zones
  • Growing Our Economy
    • Economic Strategy for Norfolk and Suffolk
    • Local Industrial Strategy
    • Our Investment Map
    • Our Sectors
    • Growth Deal
      • Growth Deal Projects
      • Project Timeline
    • The Innovative Projects Fund
    • Inward Investment
    • Infrastructure
      • Great Eastern Rail Campaign
    • Ipswich Vision
    • City Deals
    • Green Economy Pathfinder
    • Europe
  • News & Publications
    • News and Blogs
    • Case studies
    • Publications
  • Norfolk & Suffolk Unlimited
  • Brexit – advice for your business

£14.5m funding announced for skills and innovation projects

March 27, 2019

New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) can announce Capital Growth Funding totalling £14.5m for four new projects which will boost skills, innovation and productivity in Norfolk and Suffolk.

The new call has a specific focus on delivering the ambitions of the Economic Strategy for Norfolk and Suffolk. The Strategy sets ambitious targets for the area, including growing our £35bn economy by £17.5bn in real terms by 2036, creating 88,000 new jobs and 30,000 successful new businesses and making measurable improvements to skills, productivity and inclusion in the two counties.

Following detailed analysis of the LEP’s Capital Growth Programme to date, the call for new projects was given a specific focus on the themes of Skills, Innovation and Productivity. As with all calls for Capital Growth Funding, all projects have been independently appraised using a comprehensive range of criteria. The projects to receive funding are:

  • University of Suffolk: Digital Skills & Innovation Accelerator. £6.497m. Establishment of a new, nationally significant ICT research and training centre, combining high quality academic capabilities, world-leading industrial research and development. 1,600 m² of space focussed on education and growth in the regional digital economy to enhance productivity in sectors which use ICT as a key enabler. The centre will leverage the capabilities of the University of Suffolk, BT and the Adastral Park tech cluster. Projected outputs: 520 new learners (level 6+),145 apprentices (level 6+), 36 new jobs.
  • City College Norwich: Digi-Tech Factory. £6.098m. A 2,780m² building to be focussed on education, with innovative workshops and IT facilities, enabling a number of interconnected Digital Technology, Engineering and Design Courses to come together in a purpose-designed building. The project has been designed to enable students, apprentices and local SMEs to increase their digital capability. Projected outputs: 477 new students,100 new apprentices, 6 FT and 2 PT new jobs.
  • Suffolk New College: Digital & Technology Skills Hub. £1.6m. To provide new skills for local SMEs seeking to increase their digital capability. The Hub will offer a range of courses and also provide the building blocks for individuals to progress into Higher Education and Higher-Level Apprenticeships. A new 462m² building will be located near to the College’s current campus in Ipswich and so will benefit from the existing support services in the College. Projected outputs: 264 new students, 28 new apprentices, 7FT and 5PT jobs.
  • Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils: Norfolk & Suffolk Innovation Network. £440,000. To create a network across Norfolk and Suffolk to enable private, public and educational sector organisations and the public to explore, trial and implement Internet of Things (IoT) technology. This is a network that can send and receive low power signals from digital sensors used in a wide variety of sectors, including flood and traffic management, agri-tech etc.  Projected outputs: 75 new jobs, 40 new products developed, increased efficiencies & improved productivity in the ICT sector.

These four projects were chosen from a wider field of very strong applications. The LEP has contacted a number of unsuccessful projects, offering to work with them to help source alternative funding.

New Anglia LEP has been allocated £290m in Capital Growth Funding through its Growth Deal with Government. Since 2014, the Growth Deal has helped to fund more than 30 projects across Norfolk and Suffolk since 2014, ranging from infrastructure and flood defences to innovation centres and business support programmes. This total investment is forecast to attract £628m extra investment over the next ten years.  More information on the LEP’s Growth Deal with Government, including current projects and FAQs, can be found at newanglia.co.uk/growth-deal/.

Speaking following funding approval for the new projects at the LEP’s board meeting today, LEP chair Doug Field said: “Through its Growth Deal with Government, New Anglia LEP has been entrusted to make investments providing the infrastructure, skills and innovation that will supercharge our economy. The targets set out in the Norfolk and Suffolk Economic Strategy are ambitious, and it is only through collaboration with partners in business, the public and education sectors that we can achieve them.

“The quality of the business case put forward for each of these four projects put them ahead of a host of other strong applications. I believe each will make a lasting and telling contribution to achieving the aims of our Economic Strategy.”

Paul Winter, chair of the New Anglia Skills Board, said: “These projects represent a huge boost for our skills ambitions in Norfolk and Suffolk – not just for the high-skilled workers they’ll produce for our businesses, but also for the direct business collaborations they’ll promote.

“Evidence gathered for our Digital Tech Sector Skills Plan tells us our two counties will need 10,000 new highly skilled workers in the sector by the middle of the next decade. But that number quadruples when you include skilled digital jobs serving other sectors. These projects will help address that need with leading edge resources, whilst also providing the environment for our next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs to thrive.”

college Driving Business Growth and Productivity Economic Strategy for Norfolk and Suffolk funding growth Growth Deal innovation ipswich norfolk norwich skills suffolk university
Previous StoryEnergy and Agri Food businesses represented on trade visit
Next StoryNew regional tourism organisation to grow £10bn visitor economy

Related Articles

  • Pam and students
    Fashion model inspires the next generation of designers at her old school
  • Stuart Rimmer, ceo East Coast College, Jasmine Allen, former student and now an apprentice with SSE Renewables, and Chris Starkie, ceo New Anglia LEP.
    Energy Skills Centre is officially unveiled

Leave your comment Cancel Reply

(will not be shared)

CATEGORIES

  • Case Studies (32)
  • News (346)

ARCHIVES

  • December 2019 (5)
  • November 2019 (3)
  • October 2019 (9)
  • September 2019 (14)
  • August 2019 (9)
  • July 2019 (4)
  • June 2019 (5)
  • May 2019 (11)
  • April 2019 (6)
  • March 2019 (8)
  • February 2019 (4)
  • January 2019 (5)
  • December 2018 (8)
  • November 2018 (10)
  • October 2018 (12)
  • September 2018 (12)
  • August 2018 (11)
  • July 2018 (17)
  • June 2018 (15)
  • May 2018 (18)
  • April 2018 (8)
  • March 2018 (14)
  • February 2018 (10)
  • January 2018 (17)
  • December 2017 (14)
  • November 2017 (12)
  • October 2017 (17)
  • September 2017 (15)
  • August 2017 (7)
  • July 2017 (10)
  • June 2017 (6)
  • May 2017 (7)
  • April 2017 (5)
  • March 2017 (14)
  • February 2017 (7)
  • January 2017 (6)
  • December 2016 (3)
  • November 2016 (9)

TAGS

Board Members business college Community Challenge Fund Driving Business Growth and Productivity Driving Inclusion and Skills Eastern Agri-Tech Growth Initiative Economic Strategy for Norfolk and Suffolk education energy enterprise Enterprise Adviser Network Enterprise Zones food funding great yarmouth Growing Business Fund Growing Places Fund growth Growth Deal Holland Infrastructure investment Inward Investment ipswich Ipswich Vision jobs lowestoft New Anglia Capital New Anglia Growth Hub new anglia LEP New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership New Anglia Youth Pledge Marque norfolk norwich Norwich Opportunity Area Our Offer to the World rail skills Skills Deal Small Grant Scheme suffolk tourism trade visitor economy
New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) for Norfolk & Suffolk
  • Website Privacy and Email Disclaimer
  • Modern slavery and human trafficking statement

Newsletter sign-up | 01603 510070 info@newanglia.co.uk