Greater Lincolnshire LEP priority areas
The priority areas for the Greater Lincolnshire LEP are as follows. Below each priority area is a list of individuals within the voluntary and community sector who are interested in working in partnership to deliver collaborative projects within the priority area.
If you would like to get in contact with one of these individuals to discuss working in collaboration with them or if you would like to be added to one of the lists email information@one-em.org.uk.
Some organisations on the lists below are looking for partners to collaborate in delivering specific projects. For further information on these projects click on the organisation’s name.
For further information on LEPs and to view their strategies visit www.oneeastmidlands.org.uk/leps.
- Innovation
- SME competitiveness
- ICT
- Low carbon
- Climate change
- Protecting the environment/resource efficiency
- Supporting transport
- Promoting employment/supporting labour mobility
- Promoting social inclusion/combating poverty
- Investment in education, skills and lifelong learning
- Drive greater opportunities and incentives to retain and attract higher levels of graduates within the LEP region, both through direct employment routes, e.g. internships, placements, PhD studentships etc, and through the stimulation of new graduate start-up businesses, through schemes like Enterprise Inc; and
- Create a technical support service, offering hands-on support and advice to businesses, helping them to secure and access the Technology Strategy Board, Horizon 2020 and any other appropriate innovation support funding streams.
Ben Barley |
Voluntary Centre Services |
Liz Bates |
Heritage Lincolnshire |
Linny Beaumont |
Prince's Trust |
Sue Bell |
Lincoln BIG |
Lisa Capell |
Prince's Trust |
Rebecca Clark |
Boston College |
Caty Collier |
Lincolnshire Heritage Forum |
Sarah Dakin |
Grantham College |
Marina Di Salvatore |
West Lindsey District Council |
David Fannin |
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service |
David Gaskell |
Health and Care Professions Council |
Linda Haynes |
Woodland Trust |
Rachel Manton |
Prince's Trust |
David Rae |
Lincoln Business School |
Magda Read |
Horizon Community Development Ltd |
Fiona White |
Community Lincs |
- Increase the level of financial literacy amongst SME’s;
- Support businesses to understand and access the new routes to finance including venture capital, equity investment, business angels etc; and
- Business support activity to be more effectively coordinated and to reach across the county. Greater Lincolnshire LEP recognise the need to ensure that any future support needs to be developed to complement and integrate into the range of existing business support in order to provide a seamless approach.
Ben Barley |
Voluntary Centre Services |
Linny Beaumont |
Prince's Trust |
Sue Bell |
Lincoln BIG |
Andria Birch |
Workers' Educational Association |
Lisa Capell |
Prince's Trust |
Rebecca Clark |
Boston College |
Sarah Dakin |
Grantham College |
Marina Di Salvatore |
West Lindsey District Council |
David Fannin |
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service |
David Gaskell |
Health and Care Professions Council |
Linda Haynes |
Woodland Trust |
Rachel Manton |
Prince's Trust |
Karen Parsons |
Children’s Links |
David Rae |
Lincoln Business School |
Magda Read |
Horizon Community Development Ltd |
Fiona White |
Community Lincs |
- Lobby for funding to achieve basic broadband coverage for Lincolnshire;
- Promote and support initiatives that will encourage innovation in digital products and services; and
- Raise the profile of the benefits of digital technologies such as improving quality of life through e-learning opportunities, access to online services, reducing isolation; reducing unemployment by improving ICT literacy and improving access to employment opportunities online; enabling employees to work from home, reducing the impact and necessity of travel; and supporting business growth, enabling national and international trade, enabling cost savings, remote working and more cost effective solutions for business.
Jeanne Bain |
Development Plus |
Linny Beaumont |
Prince's Trust |
Sue Bell |
Lincoln BIG |
Lisa Capell |
Prince's Trust |
Rebecca Clark |
Boston College |
Caty Collier |
Voluntary Sector Services |
Sarah Dakin |
Grantham College |
Rachel Manton |
Prince's Trust |
David Rae |
Lincoln Business School |
Fiona White |
Community Lincs |
- Support businesses to become part of the low carbon supply chain due to increased take up of resource efficient and renewed technologies, the growth of energy crops and the opportunities presented by the South Humber and East Coast offshore projects; and
- Encourage and facilitate businesses to reduce waste throughout their processes and become resource efficient, helping them to build resilience to outside pressures of fluctuating resource and raw material costs, thereby promoting and realising sustainable economic growth. The key sectors of agriculture-food and manufacturing are particularly susceptible to fluctuation in resource and raw material costs.
Sue Bell |
Lincoln BIG |
Sarah Dakin |
Grantham College |
Marina Di Salvatore |
West Lindsey District Council |
Linda Haynes |
Woodland Trust |
Magda Read |
Horizon Community Development Ltd |
Peaceful Warrior |
Abundant Earth Community |
- Flood management of key sectors, in particular agriculture-food. Implement measures to reduce risk and damage.
Marina Di Salvatore |
West Lindsey District Council |
David Fannin |
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service |
Linda Haynes |
Woodland Trust |
Peaceful Warrior |
Abundant Earth Community |
- Resource efficiency to support businesses to increase their competitiveness, collaboration, stimulate the need for renewable technologies and promote the green supply chain; and
- Invest in heritage and visitor economy to protect environment and promote tourism.
Liz Bates |
Heritage Lincolnshire |
Linny Beaumont |
Prince's Trust |
Lisa Capell |
Prince's Trust |
Rebecca Clark |
Boston College |
Sarah Dakin |
Grantham College |
Marina Di Salvatore |
West Lindsey District Council |
Matt Easter |
Sustrans |
David Fannin |
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service |
Jackie Goodall |
Lincolnshire Heritage Forum |
Linda Haynes |
Woodland Trust |
Chris Jones |
Wheels to Work |
Rachel Manton |
Prince's Trust |
Karen Parsons |
Children’s Links |
Magda Read |
Horizon Community Development Ltd |
Tim Sleight |
Hill Holt Wood |
Peaceful Warrior |
Abundant Earth Community |
- Use the provision of transport infrastructure to unlock growth including creating inward investment opportunity, and overcome the transport bottlenecks by adding value to larger transport initiatives; and
- Seek to develop new technologies and systems.
Sue Bell |
Lincoln BIG |
Bob Dart |
Bob Dart |
Matthew Easter |
Sustran |
Chris Jones |
Wheels to Work |
- Increase investment to make the tourism offer a quality offer to attract new business, jobs and investors and strengthen the attractiveness of the area as a place to live; and
- Nurture and support foreign owned businesses so they commit to investing locally.
Liz Bates |
Heritage Lincolnshire |
Linny Beaumont |
Prince's Trust |
Andria Birch |
Workers' Educational Association |
Lisa Capell |
Prince's Trust |
Mark Clark |
Inside n Out CIC |
Rebecca Clark |
Boston College |
Caty Collier |
Lincolnshire Heritage Forum and Voluntary Sector Services |
Matt Easter |
Sustrans |
Clare Gilman-Abel |
Lincolnshire Sports Partnership |
Chris Jones |
Wheels to Work |
Nina Lightfoot |
Wheels to Work |
Rachel Manton |
Prince's Trust |
David Rae |
Lincoln Business School |
Magda Read |
Horizon Community Development Ltd |
Sharon Shortland |
Thera Trust |
Michelle Smith |
City of Lincoln Council |
- The youth unemployment initiative will form a core element of the European social fund, focusing specifically on integrating young people into the labour market. In particular, improve the existing work experience and training package and provide local caseworkers or mentors to link up various support schemes; and
- Explore the potential to adopt the CLLD model in urban areas including Grimsby, Immingham and Cleethorpes, alongside Humber LEP. Explore lessons learnt from current and previous LEADER programmes, added value from existing programmes, key priorities to focus on achieving wider engagement in future programmes, and increase skills leading to residents contributing to the growth of their economy.
Jeanne Bain |
Development Plus |
Ben Barley |
Voluntary Centre Services |
Linny Beaumont |
Prince's Trust |
Andria Birch |
Workers' Educational Association |
Lisa Capell |
Prince's Trust |
Mark Clark |
Inside n Out CIC |
Rebecca Clark |
Boston College |
Caty Collier |
Lincolnshire Heritage Forum |
Sarah Dakin |
Grantham College |
Matt Easter |
Sustrans |
David Fannin |
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service |
Georgina Garrett |
Age UK Lincoln |
David Gaskell |
Health and Care Professions Council |
Clare Gilman-Abel |
Lincolnshire Sports Partnership |
Chris Jones |
Wheels to Work |
Nina Lightfoot |
Wheels to Work |
Rachel Manton |
Prince's Trust |
Karen Parsons |
Childrens Lincs |
David Rae |
Lincoln Business School |
Magda Read |
Horizon Community Development Ltd |
Tim Sleight |
Hill Holt Wood |
Michelle Smith |
City of Lincoln Council |
Hannah Taylor-Dales |
Learning Communities |
Peaceful Warrior |
Abundant Earth Community |
Don Hayes |
Enable |
Fiona White |
Community Lincs |
- Support the developing of life skills, raising confidence and improving communication skills to act as a catalyst to enable and sustain jobs and provide skills for the future, e.g. funding to provide good work experience opportunities for young people that will enable them to go on and develop careers;
- The visitor economy was highlighted as a priority area. Visitors expect a good experience and a ‘skills passport’ to develop important social skills is key to improving the overall quality of the sector; and
- Improve skills provision that directly meets the needs of the local economy.
Jeanne Bain |
Development Plus |
Ben Barley |
Voluntary Centre Services |
Liz Bates |
Heritage Lincolnshire |
Linny Beaumont |
Prince's Trust |
Andria Birch |
Workers' Educational Association |
Lisa Capell |
Prince's Trust |
Mark Clark |
Inside n Out CIC |
Rebecca Clark |
Boston College |
Caty Collier |
Lincolnshire Heritage Forum and Voluntary Sector Services |
Sarah Dakin |
Grantham College |
Marina Di Salvatore |
West Lindsey District Council |
David Fannin |
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service |
Georgina Garrett |
Age UK Lincoln |
David Gaskell |
Health and Care Professions Council |
Clare Gilman-Abel |
Lincolnshire Sports Partnership |
Jackie Goodall |
Lincolnshire Heritage Forumn |
Linda Haynes |
Woodland Trust |
Chris Jones |
Wheels to Work |
Rachel Manton |
Prince's Trust |
Simon Nicoll |
Lincolnshire YMCA and The Showroom |
Karen Parsons |
Children’s Lincs |
David Rae |
Lincoln Business School |
Magda Read |
Horizon Community Development Ltd |
Sharon Shortland |
Thera Trust |
Tim Sleight |
Hill Holt Wood |
Hannah Taylor-Dales |
Learning Communities |
Peaceful Warrior |
Abundant Earth Community |
Don Hayes |
Enable |
Fiona White |
Community Lincs |