New Anglia LEP Investment Appraisal Committee
Wednesday 30th October 2019
9.00am - 9.45am
The Guildhall Council Chamber, Cage Lane, Thetford, IP24 2EA
Agenda
No.
Item
1.
Welcome
2.
Apologies
3.
Declarations of Interest
4.
Minutes of previous meeting held on 15th October 2019 Confidential
5.
Horizon Paper - Confidential
Reporting - Growing Places Fund
6.
Growing Places Fund Performance Report
6.1
Growing Places Fund project RAG rating
Reporting - Growing Business Fund
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Growing Business Fund Performance Report
7.1
Growing Business Fund approvals
7.2
Small Grant Scheme approvals
Items for discussion
8
Growing Places Fund Grant: The Nest - Confidential
9
Large Company Grant application - Confidential
10
Growing Places Fund Loan: Bungay Housing - Confidential
11
Revised IPF project request: NUA Connecting Creative Capital
Other
12
Any Other Business
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Committee Members
Lindsey Rix
Aviva
Cllr David Ellesmere
Ipswich Borough Council
Andrew Proctor
Norfolk County Council
Sandy Ruddock
Scarlett and Mustard
Alan Waters
Norwich City Council
Tim Whitley
BT
Dominic Keen
High Growth Robotics
Martin Williams
Santander
Exec Members
Rosanne Wijnberg
New Anglia LEP
Chris Dashper
New Anglia LEP
Iain Dunnett
New Anglia LEP
Tanya Nelson
New Anglia LEP
Date and time of next IAC meeting: Wednesday, 27 November 9-9:45am
Venue: Adastral Park, Martlesham, Ipswich IP5 3RFTBC - Suffolk
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Item 6- Growing Places Fund Performance Report
Programme Overview - What is the Growing Places Fund?
• Programme duration under Growth Deal funding: 2015 - 2021͘
• Value: £31m͘ This is the £31m Growing Places Fund element of the Growth Deal. Completed projects date back to previous funding from 2012.
• Invested £22.5 million loan capital in region’s infrastructure, sectors and growth locations͘ £8.5 million of grants provided to projects demonstrating
significant regional or local economic benefit.
• Contribution to the Economic Strategy: The fund has leveraged £279m public and private investment, created 1422 new jobs, 468 new homes, created
17,416 square metres of industrial space, provided premises for 112 new businesses to be created, supported 27 capital build projects, and 6 sector
developments in the private and public sector.
What is the Overall Programme Status?
Amber
Loans position
See separate update on MSF.
Amber
Grants position
Recent grant offers all issued, grant payments underway where eligible costs incurred.
Outputs
Green
Output delivery on profile.
achieved
What is our financial position?
Financials (£ millions)
Actual
Actual
Actual
ual/Forecast
Forecast
Forecast
Total
Financial Year
2015/16
2016/17
2017/18
2018/19
2019/20
2020/21
Brought Forward
0.000
0.000
2.729
4.415
1.525
7.928
Repaid
0.000
2.088
1.597
1.031
6.000
2.342
13.058
Gov Allocation
7.967
4.092
2.790
3.720
3.720
1.280
23.569
Spend [Act/Fcst]
-7.967
-3.451
-2.701
-7.641
-3.317
-0.370
-25.447
Carried forward
0.000
2.729
4.415
1.525
7.928
11.180
What is our contribution to the Economic Strategy?
Programme performance to date
Outputs - cumulative from pril 2012 to Quarter 3 2019
Actual to date
New homes built
468
New jobs created
1,422
Industrial Space created (m2)
17,416
New businesses created through provision of premises
112
Capital Build projects supported
27
Sector Developments supported
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Match Funding - Public (£m)
142
Match Funding-Private (£m)
137
Total Match (£m)
279
What is the Project Status?
Current status of all projects.
Overall status
Purple
Red
Amber
Green
Blue
Please see RAG Rating for full project
Pipeline
At risk
Claim stage
Live
Complete
Total
list.
17
1
3
13
19
53
Change
7
1
-1
1
1
What are the next steps?
Continue developing pipeline of future loan applications.
Ensure payback returns contribute to a revolving loan fund development.
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Item 7- Growing Business Fund Performance Report - August 2019
Programme Overview - What is the Growing Business Fund?
Launched in April 2013, the Growing Business Fund provides grants for businesses to enable growth, an increase productivity and job creation.
Capital grants between £25,000 and £500,000 are provided at up to 20% of project costs for SMEs, with an enhanced rate for small businesses located in an Assisted Area (until 2021)
Funding for the Growing Business Fund is provided on an annual basis by the LEP's Growth Deal.
The fund is accessed through the New Anglia Growth Hub with Due Diligence undertaken by Finance East and agreed by the GBF panel
What is the overall Programme Status?
Finance
Amber
Over the summer we have seen a slowing of applications, however, the pipeline is strengthening with circa £1m of projects under development.
Amber
Outputs
Based on recent grant applications, spend and pipeline, the scheme will probably underperform against the targets for the year 2019/20.
Delivery
Green
The pipeline of applications coming forward has slowed, however, existing approvals will ensure that the fund performs well.
What are our key updates?
Participant SMEs of the Scale Up New Anglia programme are being offered a range of support including applications to GBF (where appropriate)
This is still the LEP flagship grant scheme with many enquiries, however, perhaps due to Brexit we are seeing requests for funding for smaller less ambitious projects actually submitted.
New updated guidelines and application forms are now available on the LEP website.
Of our 2019/20
£4.121m budget, 16 applications, £1.686m is existing commitment from 2018/19; of which £561,310 (4 applications) is still to be claimed and 2 applications have withdrawn.
What is our financial position?
Financials (£ million)
Year
2013 to 2016
2016/2017
2017/2018
2018/2019
2019/2020
2020/2021
Total
Profile Spend (£m)
£12.000
£3.536
£3.050
£5.096
£4.121
£2.790
£30.593
Actual Spend (£m)
£11.999
£3.001
£3.049
£4.764
£1.302
£24.115
Remaining Spend (£m)
£0.001
£0.535
£0.001
£0.331
£2.819
£2.790
£6.477
2019/2020 Expenditure Profile
2
1
0
Q1-18/19
Q2-18/19
Q3-18/19
Q4-18/19
Quarterly Forecast
£1.030
£1.030
£1.030
£1.030
Quarterly Spend
£0.963
£0.339
£0.000
£0.000
Variance
£0.067
£0.691
£1.030
£1.030
What is our contribution to the Economic Strategy?
Actual to end of
Monthly
Outputs April 2019 to March 2020
Target
Shortfall
Notes
August 2019
Change
Value of grants approved
£4,121,000
£641,297
£85,662
£3,479,703
Value of private sector match approved
£16,484,000
£2,839,331
£425,716
£13,644,669
Number of New Jobs to be Created
206
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5
160
Value of grants claimed
£4,121,000
£1,302,035
£138,755
£2,818,965
Private sector match funding drawn down
£16,484,000
£4,956,801
£300,717
£11,527,199
Number of New Jobs Created
206
83
38
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What is the project status?
The following table shows grants approved by sector since the start of the programme in 2013/14
Number of
Projects
Grants
Private
Total Project
Jobs to be
Sector
Approved
Approved
Match
Costs
Created
A - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
3
£
235,899
£
1,018,543
£
1,254,442
58.0
B - Mining and Quarrying
1
£
100,000
£
1,654,600
£
1,754,600
10.0
C - Manufacturing
125
£
13,980,060
£
90,811,758
£
104,791,818
1538.5
E - Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
5
£
295,594
£
1,260,379
£
1,555,973
28.0
F - Construction
16
£
1,136,486
£
5,514,740
£
6,651,226
144.5
G - Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
26
£
2,829,816
£
52,382,892
£
55,212,708
386.0
H - Transportation and Storage
8
£
666,992
£
3,275,957
£
3,942,949
90.0
I - Accommodation and Food Service Activities
5
£
372,000
£
2,342,138
£
2,714,138
45.5
J - Information and Communication
10
£
717,700
£
3,537,616
£
4,255,316
74.0
K - Financial and Insurance Activities
1
£
30,000
£
79,425
£
109,425
3.0
L - Real Estate Activities
1
£
100,000
£
232,500
£
345,000
10.0
M - Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities
20
£
2,364,241
£
14,496,363
£
16,860,604
259.6
N - Administrative and Support Service Activities
21
£
2,088,771
£
11,212,136
£
13,300,907
248.0
P - Education
1
£
20,000
£
102,191
£
122,191
4.0
Q - Human Health and Social Work Activities
1
£
31,580
£
126,320
£
157,900
3.5
R - Arts, Entertainment and Recreation
8
£
502,921
£
3,159,776
£
3,662,697
55.5
S - Other Service Activities
2
£
320,000
£
4,737,413
£
5,057,413
32.0
Total
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£
25,792,060
£
195,944,747
£
221,749,307
2990.1
What are the next steps?
The LEP is working with delivery partners, to ensure that the scheme has a greater focus on business growth and productivity.
As part of the marketing Action Plan a number of case studies have been commissioned and the growth hub website revamped, literature and banners are being redesigned and relaunched
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Item 7.1 New Anglia LEP
Growing Business Fund
Grant Approvals - April 2019 to date
Approval
Grant
Company Name
Business Size Reason for Support
Date
Awarded
Apr-19
Anglian Plant Ltd
170,000
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
May-19
Portable Space Ltd (2)
78,378
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
May-19
Goldwell Manufacturing Services Ltd
40,000
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
May-19
Belle Coachworks Ltd (4)
36,000
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
May-19
HBD Europe Ltd (2)
52,388
Medium
Capital investment to support business growth
Jul-19
Bendart Ltd
42,500
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Jul-19
Cater Cunningham Ltd (Creative Displays (UK) Ltd (2) t/a
40,000
Medium
Capital investment to support business growth
Jul-19
Hugh Crane Cleaning Equioment Ltd
56,369
Medium
Capital investment to support business growth
Jul-19
Anglia Indoor Karting (Ipswich) Ltd
40,000
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Aug-19
William Moorfoot Ltd
50,000
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Aug-19
Timber Frame Management Ltd
35,662
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Total GBF Scheme
641,297
Grants approve17April 19 to date
Item 7.2 Small Grant
Scheme Grant Approvals
2019/20
Date
Grant Business
Company Name
Reason for Support
Approved
Awarded
Size
Apr-19
DXB Pumps & Power Ltd
16,845
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Apr-19
Bradleys (Stowmarket) Ltd (2)
17,919
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Apr-19
Praxis42 Ltd
6,362
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Apr-19
Edmondson Hall
25,000
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Apr-19
The Penny Bun Bakehouse Ltd
7,203
Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
Apr-19
Criterion Ices Ltd
19,515
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Apr-19
Fruitful Media Ltd
8,805
Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
Apr-19
Tosier Chocolate Ltd
2,724
Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
May-19
Apex Print & Promotion Ltd
9,930
Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
May-19
Pastonacre Ltd
4,305
Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
May-19
Donald Utting & Sons Ltd (2)
24,973
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
May-19
Safety Devices International Ltd
5,600
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
May-19
A J Laminated Beams Ltd
5,500
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
May-19
P J Lee Hire & Sales Ltd
6,600
Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
May-19
Newton Automotive Ltd (2)
16,160
Medium
Capital investment to support business growth
May-19
P J Lee Hire & Sales Ltd
6,600
Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
Jun-19
Timberwolf Ltd
18,275
Medium
Capital investment to support business growth
Jun-19
CapTrac Ltd
25,000
Micro
Capital & Revenue investment to support business growth
Jun-19
Yum Yum Tree Fudge Ltd
10,905
Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
Jun-19
N-Ergise Ltd
25,000
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Jun-19
Emkay Plastics Ltd
14,453
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Jun-19
Vinyl Installation Ltd
7,200
Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
Jun-19
C.S. (Computer Services) Ltd
1,749
Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
Jul-19
The Space Burston
9,313
Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
Jul-19
Clenshaw Minns Ltd
21,740
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Jul-19
Able Cleaning & Hygiene Supplies
1,113
Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
Jul-19
Sabrefix (UK) Ltd
4,260
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Jul-19
E Rand & Sons Ltd
4,247
Small
Capital & Revenue investment to support business growth
Aug-19
EGM Products Ltd
12,575
Small
Capital investment to support business growth
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Aug-19
Saw Media Ltd
1,611 Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
Aug-19
ASBT Holdings Ltd
6,188 Micro
Capital investment to support business growth
Aug-19
Intelligent Resource Management Ltd
3,000 Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Aug-19
Suffolk Yacht Harbour Ltd
2,919 Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Aug-19
Twyfords To You Ltd
12,545 Small
Capital investment to support business growth
Total SGS scheme
366,134
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New Anglia Local Enterprise
Investment Appraisal Committee
Wednesday 30th October 2019
Agenda Item 11
Innovative Projects Fund (2018).
Norwich University of the Arts (NUA) - Revised application ‘Connecting Creative
Capital’.
Author: Tanya Nelson
Presenter: Chris Dashper.
Summary
This paper summarises a request from Norwich University of the Arts (NUA) to consider a
revised application in return for the £100,000 grant offered to them under the 2018 call of the
Innovative Projects Fund.
Recommendation:
The IAC is asked to:
 Consider a revised proposal from NUA and approve a grant of £100,000 from the 2018
allocation of the Innovative Projects Fund.
Background
During the 2018 call of the Innovative Projects Fund, the Programmes Team received 21
applications. Of those 21 projects, 18 projects were independently appraised using a
comprehensive range of criteria. At the 27th March 2019 meeting of the IAC, 3 projects were
given outright approval and 5 projects were given conditional approval pending further
discussions with the project applicants.
NUA’s Connecting Creative Capital project was one of the 5 projects to receive conditional
approval. The project’s remit is to increase local employment rates amongst graduates from
the creative industries sector and consequently graduate retention in Norfolk. The project
will demonstrate the benefits of employing graduates from the creative industries within a
cross sector of industries. The project was given conditional approval because delivery of
the Connecting Creative Capital project in its entirety was dependent on approval of funding
of £300,000 from the Office of Students (OfS). This project would have supported the
creation of 45 high value full time jobs and given business support to 50 businesses and
levered in match funding of £441,735.
NUA was unsuccessful in attracting funding from OfS. At that time NUA requested that the
Connecting Creative Capital project continue as a stand-alone initiative, but the LEP
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Executive encouraged NUA to try again to leverage alternative external funding. NUA
investigated the possibility that monies secured via a parallel internship programme for
creative industry (£60,000 per year) through the Enabling Innovation Research to Application
project t(EIRA) could be a suitable match - but the EIRA team stated that this is not possible
due to the derivation of their funding.
In April NUA applied to the Research England RED fund UEZ funding call, again linking the
proposal to the IPF bid. This application was also unsuccessful.
The strategic need for the Connecting Creative Capital remains unchanged, and the
University would like the project to be considered in the following format.
Connecting Creative Capital - Revised Proposal
The core focus for a revised plan will focus on building ‘creative thinking’ and expertise into
other sectors of the New Anglia economy. This would support the Local Industrial Strategy,
working with Clean Energy, Tech (in its broadest sense) and Agri-food.
The programme would be delivered over 2 years (the original proposal was 3), with the first
phase of work focussed on the development of creative input into other sectors, and the
second on the delivery of knowledge exchange and new graduate pathways for those
sectors. These are businesses/sectors that have not traditionally employed creative
graduates. Initially, core delivery would be to develop and deliver a series of workshops
with organisations in target sectors where NUA would tackle problems they find difficult to
solve. NUA has used this model effectively in their pilot project with Marsh. NUA has
indicated that the first phase of the project, delivery of the workshops with business, is
crucial. In those workshops the NUA team will work with business to help them identify how
creative thinkers could add a new thinking dimension to the way they tackle intractable
problems. It is only after the workshops are completed that NUA will be able to identify the
new graduate pathways for creative thinkers in these sectors.
The second element of the project would see the delivery of an innovative graduate
internship scheme specifically for ‘creative’ graduates employed in target non-creative
sectors. NUA would develop pathways for 15 graduates in a cohort model that would run in
the same format as the Creative Internship Scheme previously funded by NALEP. NUA
estimates that it would need to engage with 20-25 business in order for 15 pathways to
result.
Like the Creative Interns project, the graduates would be employed by NUA for a fixed term
of 12 weeks and loaned to the host business who would pay a flat consultancy rate for the
scheme. NUA will offer centrally delivered mentoring and training, but it will have a different
focus to previous, as the interns would be pioneers working in environments such as energy,
fintech, agri-tech, advanced manufacture etc.- the interns would return to NUA on
Wednesdays for peer to peer learning and structured support through the University’s
gamified Profile skills framework.
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Project Costs and Outputs - a comparison.
Original Project approved
Revised Project
Difference
by the IAC in March 2019
LEP Grant
£100,000
£100,000
0
requested
Match Funding
£393,305
£60,061
--84%
NUA Own funds
£48,430
£3,076
-94%
Overall Cost
£541,735
£163,137
-69.9%
Original Project approved
Revised Project
by the IAC in March 2019
Jobs Created
45
15
Business Support
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The cost of each FTE is £10,876 which represents good value for money for a job in a high-
value sector. The Programmes Team enquired with the project applicant as to the
significant increase in staff time on the proposed project (compared to the Creative Interns
Project that was approved earlier in 2018). NUA confirmed that the first project did not
require the identification of pathways (as the demand was always there). This time the
innovation lies in the way NUA will work with cross sector businesses to identify the role for
diverse thinking styles (Creative Interns) which accounts for the increase in staff time
required on the project.
Recommendation:
The IAC is asked to:
 Consider a revised proposal from NUA and approve a grant of £100,000 from the 2018
allocation of the Innovative Projects Fund.
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