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New Anglia Investment Appraisal Committee
Confidential Meeting Minutes (Confirmed)
22nd September 2021
Present:
Committee Members
Kathy Atkinson (KA)
Kettle Foods
David Ellesmere (DE)
Ipswich Borough Council
Dominic Keen (DK)
High Growth Robotics
Andrew Proctor (AP)
Norfolk County Council
Alan Waters (AW)
Norwich City Council
Martin Williams (MW)
Independent IAC Member
In Attendance
Rosanne Wijnberg (RW)
New Anglia LEP
Chris Dashper (CD)
New Anglia LEP
Helen Wilton (HW)
New Anglia LEP
Melanie Richardson (MR)
New Anglia LEP
ACTIONS
None
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Welcome from the Chair
David Ellesmere (DE) welcomed everyone to the meeting.
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Apologies
None
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Declarations of Interest
Item 9 - Suffolk Inclusive Growth Investment Fund – David Ellesmere noted an interest in those projects
sponsored by IBC.
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Minutes of previous meeting 21st July 2021
The minutes of the last meeting were agreed as accurate.
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Horizon Paper and GPF Repayments – Confidential
The Committee agreed:
To note the content of the report
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Growing Business Fund Programme Performance Report and GBF, SGS and GTI and grant
award appendices
Chris Dashper (CD) reviewed the reports as included in the pack and noted the details were accurate to
the end of July.
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Funding has been added to the pot giving a budget of around £4m and the funds must be spent by the
end of March 2022.
£1.2m is not yet committed with applications worth £600k going through due diligence.
SGS – Virtually all monies from the original fund have been spent but the top up funding is being finalised
and then the fund will restart running to the summer of 2023. The scheme will be promoted again when
more confidence is achieved with MHCLG.
The Committee agreed:
To note the content of the report
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Resilience and Recovery Programme Performance Report
CD confirmed that enquiries are still being received but are slowing and some new enquiries are going to
the GBF fund. All funds will be used by current enquiries.
Feedback has been very positive with significant support having been provided to businesses.
The Committee agreed:
To note the content of the report
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IPF Calls 1 & 2 Programme Performance Report and IPF 2 project RAG rating appendix
CD confirmed that all projects are green as they catch up with deliveries following the pandemic
The Committee agreed:
To note the content of the report
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Suffolk Inclusive Growth Investment Fund- Round 4 projects for approval - Confidential
DE declared in interest in those projects sponsored by Ipswich Borough Council and left the meeting for
those items.
The Committee agreed:
To note the content of the report
To ratify the funding decisions from the Suffolk Growth Management Team
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AOB
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