New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership
Investment Appraisal Committee
Wednesday 23rd March 2022
TEAMS Meeting
9am to 9:45am
Agenda
No. Item
1. Welcome
Main Agenda
2. Apologies
3. Declarations of Interest
4. Minutes of previous meeting – 23 February 2022
5. Horizon Paper and GPF repayments – Confidential
Reporting: Growing Business Fund
No grant approvals since January 2022. Current focus on spend on existing
projects before 31/3/22. Final programme report to be issued after April 2022
including final outturn position.
Reporting: Resilience and Recovery Fund
No grant approvals since January 2022. Current focus on spend on existing
projects before 31/3/22. Final programme report to be issued after April 2022
including final outturn position.
Reporting: Innovative Projects Fund Calls 1 &2
6a,6b
6c
IPF Calls 1 & 2 Programme Performance Report and IPF 2 project RAG rating
appendix
Items for Discussion
7 Suffolk Inclusive Growth Investment Fund- Round 5 projects for approval
Confidential
Other
8. Any Other Business
Committee Members
Cllr David Ellesmere Ipswich Borough Council
Andrew Proctor Norfolk County Council
Sandy Ruddock Scarlett and Mustard
Alan Waters Norwich City Council
Dominic Keen High Growth Robotics
Kathy Atkinson Kettle Foods Ltd
Martin Williams Williams Business Advisory
Exec Members
Rosanne Wijnberg New Anglia LEP
Chris Dashper New Anglia LEP
Iain Dunnett New Anglia LEP
Date and time of next meeting: Wednesday 25 May 2022. 9am-9:45am
Venue: TEAMS Meeting
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New Anglia Investment Appraisal Committee
Confidential Meeting Minutes (Unconfirmed)
23rd February 2022
Present:
Committee Members
David Ellesmere (DE)
Ipswich Borough Council
Dominic Keen (DK)
High Growth Robotics
Andrew Proctor (AP)
Norfolk County Council
Alan Waters (AW)
Norwich City Council
Sandy Ruddock (SR)
Scarlett & Mustard
Martin Williams (MW)
Independent IAC Member
In Attendance
Rosanne Wijnberg (RW)
New Anglia LEP
Jonathan Rudd (JR)
New Anglia LEP
Iain Dunnett (ID)
New Anglia LEP
Helen Wilton (HW)
New Anglia LEP
ACTIONS
To move the March IAC meeting to 23rd March - HW
1
Welcome from the Chair
David Ellesmere (DE) welcomed everyone to the meeting.
2
Apologies
Apologies were received from Kathy Atkinson
3
Declarations of Interest
AP declared an interest in Item 9 in relation to Norfolk County Council. It was agreed that AP could remain
for the discussion but not participate in the vote
DE declared an interest in Item 10. It was agreed that DE would leave the meeting for the discussion
around the Sounds East project.
4
Minutes of previous meetings
The minutes of the meeting held on 26th January 2022 were agreed as accurate.
5
Horizon Paper and GPF Repayments – Confidential
The Committee agreed:
• To note the content of the report
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6a-e
Reporting: Growing Business Fund
RW resented the reports noting that the GBF was funded from the Growth Deal where funds had to be
spent by 31st March 2022 so the focus was on paying outstanding grants to minimise the level unpaid
which will be clawed back by Government.
AP asked if project costs were being impacted by inflation. RW confirmed that some GPF requests had
been received but not for the GBF as, if costs rise, it usually results in a lower intervention rate. RW
agreed to investigate this further.
The Committee agreed:
• To note the content of the report
7
Growing Places Fund Programme Project RAG ratings - Confidential
The GPF RAG ratings were taken as included in the meeting papers.
The Committee agreed:
• To note the content of the report
8
Growing Places Fund: FEP Energy project update Confidential
9
Getting Building Fund: Local Full Fibre Network project amendment request
JR presented the project which is part of the wider Better Broadband project and advised that 14 sites have
needed to be withdrawn reducing the project costs by £400k. To avoid having to repay this the project
team have proposed using the funding to provide Fixed Wireless Access to a number of sites which will
provide the same outcomes to rural areas which traditional broadband is struggling to reach.
The Committee agreed:
• To note the content of the report
• To approve the deallocation of £400,000 from the Getting Building Fund grant offer of £2,054,320 for
the delivery of the Local Full Fibre Network. To re-apportioned the £400,000 within the project to
support the delivery of Fixed Wireless Access
10
Suffolk Inclusive Growth Investment Fund - Round 5 projects for approval - Confidential
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AOB
It was agreed to move the March meeting from 30th to 23rd March 2022 to tie in with the deadlines for the
SIGIF programme.
Innovative Pro
j
ects Fund - 2018 Pro
j
ects Call
Programme Overview - What is the Innovative Projects Fund
What is the Overall Programme Status?
Overall: Green
Delivery: Green
Spend: Green
Outputs: Green
What are our Key Updates?
What is our Financial Position?
Actual Actual Forecast Actual Forecast Actual Forecast Actual Forecast Actual
2019/20 2020/21 Q1‐21/22 Q1‐21/22 Q2‐21/22 Q2‐21/22 Q3‐21/22 Q3‐21/22 Q4‐21/22 Q4‐21/22
0.400 0.308 0.308 0.251 0.251 0.244 0.244 0.200 0.200
0.540 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
0.140 0.092 0.125 0.057 0.045 0.007 0.037 0.044 0.200 0.072
0.000 0.105 0.125 0.068 0.045 0.038 0.037 -0.007 0.200 0.129
0.400 0.308 0.183 0.251 0.206 0.244 0.207 0.200 0.000
What is our contribution to the Economic Strategy?
Quarter/ year:
(January- March) 2022
Actual to date Programme
Target to 2021
965
959
10 60
412
85 94
1 415
385 848
40
What is the Project Delivery Status?
What are the Next Steps?
The Innovative Projects Fund is a revenue grant programme that provides funding towards innovative projects to support the delivery of the themes and activities identified in the Economic and Local
Industrial Strategies. The first call of the Innovative Projects Fund was made in October 2018 with a remit to facilitate innovative projects supporting economic growth and the delivery of the
Economic Strategy utilising revenue from the Enterprise Zone Pot C.
Number of businesses created
Outputs – cumulative from April 1st 2019 to 31st March2022 (Quarter 4 2021/22)
Financial Year
Number of Direct Full-Time Jobs Created
High Value Jobs created
Committed
Carried forward
Financials (£ million)
Brought Forward
LEP Allocation
Spend [Act/Fcst]
Number of Jobs Safeguarded
There are 7 projects under the 2018 call of the Innovative Projects Fund with a combined allocation and commitment of £539,531.
The value of claims for the first year (2019/20) was £139,951.
The value of claims for the second year (2020/21) was £91,362.82
Actual Spend to date is £410,731 (76%) of the Programme Budget.
£179,147 has been claimed so far in this financial year. The total project spend to date is £951,970.27
Public match funding of £410,254.46 and Private match funding of £130,984.81 has been recorded.
7 out of the 7 projects have Offer Letters.
Building Supply Chains - NCC: This full grant award has now been paid to this project. The project has been re-profiled. The original objective of the ‘Building Skills Capacity’ project, marketed as
‘Gearing up to Grow’ was to assist local SMEs to enter and support the future onshore part of the Vattenfall (and other wind energy project) supply chains by raising awareness and understanding the
opportunities, enabling them to upskill their staff and create jobs and form consortiums to enable them to bid for projects within the supply chain. Due to the decision delays to approve the Vattenfall
Offshore windfarm (DCO) and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the decision was made to pause the project in 2020, taking the opportunity to revisit the project aims and objectives. Norfolk
County Council will now use the remaining project funding to become Phase 1 of a larger project across the Green Energy sector opportunities that effect the East Anglian workforce and supply
chain. The latter requires a time extension to 31st March 2022 to deliver the activity.
Since approval of the PCR NCC have commissioned SBLC Ltd (Simon Baker) to undertake a period of research to ascertain the volume and value of Clean Energy Sector opportunities for the local
supply chain, working closely with the NCC Team, Suffolk County Council and NALEP. The project has spent a further £948 with c. £5000 due in the next quarter. A further project reprofile was
submitted to the Programme Caseworker 07/01/2022. This now requires reviewing.
The Ipswich Cornhill Action Plan- Ipswich Central: A claim of £23,712.05 was submitted late for Quarter 3 and a further claim of £2,032.95 was paid in Quarter 4. This project has been
completed. The project attracted £57,391.41 in Public Match Funding and £34,301.74 in Private Match funding. It created 62 new events in the Cornhill, increased dwell time by 9.75% and created
a 27.75% increase in visits to the area.
Norfolk & Suffolk Offshore Wind Competitiveness Positioning Programme - GYBC: Total project expenditure over three claims to date is £299,728 with a total of £88,731 paid out to GYBC.
Total Public match £210,997 has been evidenced. The project is progressing well despite COVID restrictions preventing Offshore / Inward Investment events from going ahead at present. Physical
events are hopefully returning and plans are in place to have a physical launch at Global Offshore Wind, London at the end of September. Plans for attending Wind Europe in October, and Electric
City in Copenhagen at end of November are also in place. The total grant award has been paid out and the project is in its final stage.
Fit for Nuclear - West Suffolk College: The project started in 2020. However, due to COVID and Sizewell still awaiting the Final Investment Decision (FID) this project has not progressed as well
as hoped. The project grant has been withdrawn but the funding ringfenced for a future project related to Nuclear readiness.
2 out of 7 projects are now in their delivery phase. Five projects have claimed in full (Building Supply Chains is still in the delivery Phase).
Profiled Spend to the end of 2021/22 Quarter 3 was £438,865. Actual spend to date is £410,731.
See outputs table below.
Number of part time jobs create
d
Number of Businesses Supported (at least 12 hrs of support)
Number of Learners
Number of businesses engaged
Growing the Year-Round Economy - Visit East of England: A 6th claim has been submitted in this quarter totalling £8,786.39 and has been approved, this project will be paid its last paument in
early October. Two data stewards and administrator are now facilitated in an office with the Affinity Agency who are developing the website. This gives them instant access to developers and client
manager and help speed their work. The accommodation booking API is now functional and VEE is working with partners ‘Staylists’ to encourage more accommodation venues to sign up. This
project has been completed.
The Catapult - The Catapult Network: The Catapult - The Catapult Network: Andy Holyland based at Orbis Energy in Lowestoft started on 1st January 2020. 8 claims have been paid to date
totalling £50,000. The same total of Private Match has been recorded. This project has been completed.
Creating Creative Capital - NUA: This project was re-approved by the IAC in October 2019. This project is being paid in stages. The project has been paid £90,000. 2 monitoring reports have
been received for the first phase.
The Programmes Case Worker for the IPF Programme is working with Project Leaders of the 2018 project call to ensure claims and associated monitoring reports are received for Quarter 4 of
2021/22.
£0.00
£100,000.00
£200,000.00
£300,000.00
£400,000.00
£500,000.00
£600,000.00
2019/20 2020/21 Q1‐21/22 Q2‐21/22 Q3‐21/22 Q4‐21/22
InnovativeProjectFund
Allocation
AxisTitle
Expenditure
QtrlyForecast QtrlyClaims AvailableIPF
Innovative Pro
j
ects Fund - 2019 Pro
j
ects Call
Pro
g
ramme Overview - What is the Innovative Pro
j
ects Fun
d
What is the Overall Pro
g
ramme Status
?
Overall: Green
Delivery: Green
Spend: Amber
Outputs: Green
What are our Ke
y
U
p
dates?
What is our Financial Position?
Forecast Actual Forecast Actual Forecast Actual Forecast Actual Actual
2020/21 2020/21 Q12021/22 Q12021/22 Q22021/22 Q22021/22 Q32021/22 Q32021/22 Q42021/22
1.522 1.233 1.233 1.131 1.131 0.956 0.956 0.803
1.522 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
0.701 0.269 0.210 0.102 0.236 0.174 0.162 0.153 0.161
0.701 0.431 0.210 0.108 0.236 0.062 0.162 0.008 0.118
0.822 1.253 1.023 1.131 0.895 0.956 0.794 0.803 0.642
What is our contribution to the Economic Strategy?
Quarter/
y
ear:
4
(
Jan - Mar
)
2022
Actual to date Programme
Target to 2022
14 101
73
2 293
39
14 430
105 268
039
154 77
15 29
What is the Project Delivery Status?
What are the Next Steps?
The Innovative Projects Fund is a revenue grant programme that provides funding towards innovative projects to support the delivery of the themes and activities identified in the
Economic and Local Industrial Strategies. The second call of the Innovative Projects Fund was made in October 2019 with a remit to facilitate innovative projects supporting
economic growth and the delivery of the Economic Strategy utilising revenue from the Enterprise Zone Pot C.
Number of businesses created
Outputs – cumulative from April 1st 2019
Financial Year
Number of Direct Full-Time Jobs Created
High Value Jobs created
Committed
Carried forward
Financials (£ million)
Brought Forward
LEP Allocation
Spend [Act/Fcst]
Number of Jobs Safeguarded
•18 projects have a combined allocation of £1,522,372. However, one project has been completed under budget and a further project has re-profiled (bringing down their IPF grant)
total combined allocation is now £1,502,217.
•18 projects now have their Grant Offer Letters and have commenced (3 projects have been completed).
•£860,768.69 has been paid out to date.
•Private match funding of £417,133.85 and public match funding of £1,266,611.88 has been recorded.
All projects are in the delivery phase, with the exception of 3 which have been completed.
See Appendix A for project delivery status.
The Programmes Case Worker for the IPF Programme is working with Project Leaders of the 2019 project call to ensure claims and associated monitoring reports are received for
Quarter 4 of 2021/22.
15 out of 18 projects are now in their delivery phase. 3 projects have completed (UEA Seedcorn Project, F4OR & Innovation Labs).
Profiled Grant Spend to the end of Quarter 3 (2021/22) was £1,307,811. Actual Spend to date is £860,768.69. Delayed spend was due to
COVID and related restrictions.
No accumulated outputs were forecast by the end of Quarter 3.
Number of part time jobs created
Number of Businesses Supported (at least 12 hrs of support)
Number of Learners
Number of businesses created
No of Businesses Engaged
‐
500,000.00
1,000,000.00
1,500,000.00
2,000,000.00
2020/21 Q1‐21/22 Q2‐21/22 Q3‐21/22 Q4‐21/22 2022/23
InnovativeProjectFund
Allocation
AxisTitle
Expenditure
QtrlyForecast QtrlyClaims AvailableIPF
1
Appendix 1 – Innovative Projects Fund –Q4 2021-22 Programme Performance Report
Below is an update on all Innovative Projects Fund ‘2019 Call’ Projects, reflecting the
‘Project Delivery Status’ section of the Programme Performance Report.
Ref Status ProjectName&ProjectUpdate Offer
Letter
Signed&
Returned?
IPF‐19‐1 GREEN NWC‐Collaboration:Place:Change‐£60,952
PercentageofgrantClaimed:57.5%
TheNationalWritingCentrehasbeenpaiditssixthclaim£8401.Totalnow
claimed£35,080.Theprojecthascreated2P/Tpostsandhassofarachieved
15 leadership qualification /learner outputs. A further 20 leaders have
started.
Y
IPF‐19‐2 GREEN EastSuffolk–EastSuffolkSmartTowns‐£200,000
PercentageofgrantClaimed:21.9%
Afirstclaimhasbeensubmittedandpaid(£43,811.50).Deliveryofthetown
technology(townWi‐Fiandfootfalltrackers)isontarget.
Some efficiencies have been gained in the town technology roll‐out by
utilisingexistingdatalinesandinfrastructurewhereverpossible.
BrandingandlogodesignworkhasbeencompletedfortheWi‐Fiservice.
Communicationsandpromotionalworkarealsobeingdevelopedwhichwill
bedeliveredwiththelocalTownCouncilsandbusinessassociationsasthe
roll‐outsprogressineachtown.
Y
IPF‐19‐3 GREEN UEA–SunriseCoast‐Seedcorn‐£11,393
PercentageofgrantClaimed:100%
Theprojecthasbeencompleted.Theprojecttimeframewasconstricteddue
tothelatereleaseoftheUKRIStrengthinPlacesprogrammeguidanceand
earliersubmissionrequirement.TheUEAtookthedecisiontohire
consultants to undertake delivery. That said, the eventual total project
value was closer to £32 million (original estimate £20million) and if
successfulwillleadtothedirectcreationof21jobsfortheregionaspartof
the programme and with the potential to support the creation ofmany
thousands of additional high value jobs. 1 indirect High Value FTE was
created.
Y
IPF‐19‐4 GREEN SCC–CultureDrivesGrowth‐£15,000
PercentageofgrantClaimed:46.3%
TheNewAngliaLEPCultureBoardhasCommissionedTomFlemingCreative
ConsultancytodeliverthedevelopmentoftheCulturalStrategy.
A2ndclaimfor£5,280hasbeensubmittedandpaid.
Y
2
NewTimetableisasfollows:
‐ DraftsetofprioritiesandactionswillbepresentedtotheBoard’s
October23rdMeeting.
‐ FinalStrategyandPlan,startingwithimplementationstartingin
April2022–March2027willbepresentedtotheDecember8th
Boardmeeting–foragreement
‐ NewStrategy‐launchedinFebruary2022
‐ NewStructureimplemented
‐ NewstructureandstrategyinplaceforApril2022
FinalclaimtobesubmittedinMarch2022.
IPF‐19‐5 GREEN Netmatters–SCIONProject‐£100,000
PercentageofgrantClaimed:92.55%
Theprojecthasnowsubmitted4claimstothevalueof£92,550.Theproject
hascreated45learnerpositions/opportunities.13ofthestudentsarenow
inFTEmploymentwithmoretofollow.FinalClaimhasbeenprocessedbut
paymentisretaineduntiltargetsarecaughtup.
Y
IPF‐19‐6 GREEN SouthNorfolkDC–SETI‐£28,750
PercentageofgrantClaimed:0%
OfferLetterhasbeensignedandreturned.SETIintroductionmeetingtook
placeNovember‐MetroDynamicswonthecontract‐themonitoringand
claimforthefullamountshouldbereadyinMarch.
Y
IPF‐19‐7 GREEN InnovationLabsStowmarket‐£45,000
PercentageofgrantClaimed:100%
£45,000hasbeenclaimedbyInnovationLabstowardsthevirtualtenancy
andthetwointeractiveplatforms.£129,007ofPrivatematchhasbeen
recorded.Theprojecthasbeencompletedandevaluationreceived.Case
StudieswillbepublishedthroughtheLEPCommschannels.
Y
IPF‐19‐8 GREEN CNTC–NAAME‐£180,700
PercentageofgrantClaimed:70.33%
LedbyBroadlandDistrictCouncil–theprojectisunderway,andthe
secondclaimof£29,796hasbeenpaid.TheNAAMEDevelopmentplanhas
beenpublishedandthelaboursharingplatformhasbeencreated,60
companiesarecurrentlysigneduptotheplatform.
Y
3
IPF‐19‐9 GREEN NCC–NorwichGoodEconomyProject‐£50,000
PercentageofgrantClaimed:67.44%
The project has submitted its second claim and it has been paid. The
majorityofworkstreamsarewellunderwayandlearningisbeginningtobe
collatedtofeedintothefinalreportandrecommendations.
Y
IPF‐19‐10 GREEN SCC–InnovationHubwithinTransportStrategy‐£140,000
PercentageofgrantClaimed:0%
OfferLetterhasbeensigned
SCChaveappointedaDataTechOfficertotheproject–1FTE.
SBisintheprocessofarrangingtheadvert/SCCapprovalfora
newHeadofDataandIntelligence–1FTE.
SBhasmanagedtogetthewholedirectorateonboardtostartthe
processofdatasharingbetweendifferentservicesallowingnew
transportstrategiestobedevelopedthroughacombineddata
approach.
ConsultantsARUPhavebeenappointedtoundertaketransport
modellingusingcharacterdescriptors.
SBwillbeleavingSCCtogotoTransportEastbutwillnotleave
untiltheprojectissomewaythroughitsdelivery.
ProjectisduetobedeliveredbyMarch22.
ClaimMeetinghasbeenarranged.
Y
IPF‐19‐11 GREEN TCHC–VGIncubator‐£120,000
PercentageofgrantClaimed:62.17%
This project is progressing well, £69,302 claimed to date. The project is
receivingverygoodfeedback.
Thefirstgamehasbeenpublishedfromaparticipantinthecohortonsteam
SecretsofSoilonSteam(steampowered.com)whichhashad some press
attention.
OnestudentisinFTE,afurther7havebecomefreelanceandhavepicked
up contracts. Claim 6 has been paid. TCHC have been in touch and has
requestedaprojectreprofile.Claims7&8Due.
Y
IPF‐19‐12 GREEN NCC–InnovateUKMentoringProject‐£96,000
PercentageofgrantClaimed:66.16%
Thisprojecthasbeenpaiditssecondclaim.Anupfrontpaymentwas
madeinDecembertotalling£50,760.Theprojecthasclaimed£60,698to
date.Theprojecthassupported3BidstoInnovateUKSmartGrantMarch
2021–outcomepending.Theprojecthas14bidwritersintotaland23
mentors.3businesshaveprogressedtoapplicationstage.
Y
4
IPF‐19‐13 GREEN Coderus–LOCKE‐£59,000
PercentageofgrantClaimed:41.66%
Thisisaprivatesectorledprojectthatexpressedawishtodelaythe
projectby6monthsduetoCOVID.Thefirstandsecondclaimforthis
projecthavebeenpaid–Value:£24,576.73.
Y
IPF‐19‐14 GREEN Catapult‐F4ORE‐£75,000
PercentageofgrantClaimed:100%
Theprojecthasclaimedinfullandidentifiedthe10businessesto
completetheFit4Offshorequalification.Theprojecthasbenefitedfrom
additionNSFgrantfundingtootoincreasethenumberofbusinessesby5.
10businessesareduetocompletethisquarter.
Y
IPF‐19‐15 GREEN BCKLWN–GAMEON‐£65,000
PercentageofgrantClaimed:50.71%
Theprojecthasbeenclaimed£26,142todate.Thecoreteamhasbeen
hiredandpre‐productionworkhascommenced.Productionstartedin
January.ThemaineventtookplaceinOctober‐itwasagreatsuccess.
Thesecondevent‘Manifesto’isnowinproduction.
Y
IPF‐19‐16 GREEN FirstLightLowestoft‐£71,034
PercentageofgrantClaimed:77.30%
TheprojectdeliveredtheFierySunWinterSolsticeevent–itwasstreamed
overthesolsticeweekendonthe19/20/21stDecember.Theprojectrana
seriesofeventscalledthelongestdaysofSummerdeliveredunderCOVID
restrictionson26/27thJune.Theprojectisrunningaseriesofevents
throughmarkettownsandhaswonthecontractfortheEastPointPavilion
–Totalamountclaimed‐£54,908Claimreceived.
Y
IPF‐19‐17 GREEN NCC–CelebratingCulture/HeadEast‐£84,388
PercentageofgrantClaimed:82.17%
Theprojecthasclaimed£69,345.19todate.TheFreelancecampaign
managementrolehasbeenfilled(forthesecondtime).Thecampaignis
nowcalled‘HeadEast’.PCRrequested.
Y
IPF‐19‐18 GREEN ICM–IpswichCornhill‐£100,000
PercentageofgrantClaimed:76.14%
Theprojecthasclaimed£76,142todate.Q3ofevents,Oct‐Dec2021sawa
hugeamountofactivityandengagementtypeprojectsforthetowncentre,
mainly in the run up to Christmas, with the augmented reality app and
projectionwhichgainedalotofinterest.
Y
