Black Country LEP

Midlands Engine £250M Fund on roadshow rollout

• 21st March 2018
• Kevin Johnson
• Black Country LEP, Featured, GBSLEP, LEPs, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended

300 business leaders and financial experts gathered at Millennium Point yesterday for the Midlands Finance & Investment Summit in the latest stage of the roadshow to promote the Midlands Engine Investment Fund,

Birmingham does cranes…and skills debates

• 27th February 2018
• Kevin Johnson
• Andy Street, Birmingham chamber of commerce, Black Country LEP, Centre for Cities, Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, skills, west midlands combined authority, WMCA

If you walk around Birmingham city centre, you can’t help but bump into one of two things. A building site (complete with obligatory crane) or a debate on skills, writes

Life after Street: who’s in the economy hot seat if GBSLEP loses its mercurial chair?

• 31st August 2016
• Paul Dale
• #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Street, Birmingham City council, Black Country LEP, Councils, coventry and warwickshire lep, Devolution, Featured, GBSLEP, News, Opinion, Partner Posts, Solihull Council, WMCA

With the odds narrowing on Andy Street securing the Conservative nomination to run for West Midlands’ mayor, chief blogger Paul Dale considers what impact the departure of the Greater Birmingham

Identity crisis as West Midlands combined authority reaches Welsh borders

• 25th July 2016
• Paul Dale
• #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Street, Black Country LEP, Councils, coventry and warwickshire lep, David Jamieson, Devolution, Featured, GBSLEP, Greater Birmingham metro mayor, News, Partner Posts, WMCA

The West Midlands Combined Authority keeps growing and has extended its operations to the Welsh border, with the The Marches Local Enterprise Partnership joining as a new member. But the

Councils and LEPs face £14bn social funding gap after Brexit, Government warned

• 6th July 2016
• Paul Dale
• #ThinkBirmingham, Black Country LEP, Councils, coventry and warwickshire lep, Devolution, European Union, Featured, GBSLEP, Local Government Association, News, Partner Posts

Councils across England and Wales are seeking urgent assurances from the Government that they will continue to receive the £5.3 billion in EU regeneration funding that they have been allocated

Latest economic plan is ‘deliverable and not fanciful’, WMCA chief promises

• 13th June 2016
• Paul Dale
• #ThinkBirmingham, Birmingham City council, Black Country LEP, Councils, coventry and warwickshire lep, Devolution, Featured, GBSLEP, Greater Birmingham metro mayor, HS2, Martin Reeves, metro mayors, News, Partner Posts, WMCA

No one can accuse the West Midlands Combined Authority of producing a Strategic Economic Plan lacking in ambition, or of failing to make the case for radical change. The SEP

Showcasing West Midlands’ booming automotive industry to the world

• 10th May 2016
• Paul Dale
• Black Country LEP, Business Birmingham, coventry and warwickshire lep, Featured, GBSLEP, News, Partner Posts

Six West Midlands Local Enterprise Partnerships will unite to sell the region’s automotive sector to potential investors worldwide next month. The strength of the local motor industry will be on

Communication breakdown: WMCA hit by strange case of portfolio paralysis

• 12th April 2016
• Paul Dale
• #ThinkBirmingham, Birmingham City council, Black Country LEP, Cllr John Clancy, Councils, coventry and warwickshire lep, Coventry Council, Devolution, Dudley Council, Featured, GBSLEP, Opinion, Partner Posts, Sandwell Council, Solihull Council, Walsall Council, west midlands combined authority, WMCA, Wolverhampton council

There are 50 days to go until the West Midlands’ local government landscape changes irrevocably. On June 1, all being well, the West Midlands Combined Authority will become a legal

From zero to £10 billion in four years – the rise and rise of LEPs

• 11th April 2016
• Paul Dale
• #ThinkBirmingham, Black Country LEP, coventry and warwickshire lep, Featured, GBSLEP, George Osborne, LEPs, National Audit Office, News, Partner Posts

The country’s 39 Local Enterprise Partnerships have shared £7.3 billion from the Government’s growth fund deals since 2015, and a further £1.8 billion pot is now up for grabs. Chief

MIPIM16: Black Country to build Britain’s biggest ever Garden City

• 14th March 2016
• Kevin Johnson
• Black Country LEP, Business Birmingham, Featured, LEPs, News, Partner Posts

Britain’s biggest ever Garden City will be built across some 30 towns near to and within Wolverhampton, in the heart of the Black Country.  The development is designed to cater