Greater Lincolnshire LEP priority areas

Greater Lincolnshire LEP

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.



  1. Innovation
  • 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

  1. SME competitiveness
  • 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

  1. ICT
  • 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

  1. Low carbon
  • 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

  1. Climate change
  • 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

  1. Protecting the environment/resource efficiency
  • 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

  1. Supporting transport
  • 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

  1. Promoting employment/supporting labour mobility
  • 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

  1. Promoting social inclusion/combating poverty
  • 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

  1. Investment in education, skills and lifelong learning
  • 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