News from Sajeimpact and partners
It has been another varied week for our Director Andy Reed in London and Leicestershire.
We are often asked how ‘retirement’ is going for our team so we ask - what retirement?
Andy said "I have seriously managed to slow down but there is enough to occupy my mind and plenty of challenges.
Work on a scheme to transform Market Place in Shepshed will get underway this month.
The Council will be creating a more open and more pedestrian-friendly space while increasing parking in the area for shoppers.
The improvements have been developed with Shepshed Town Council and Shepshed Town Team and are being funded by the borough council plus grants from LLEP and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
We ha an excellent meeting of the APPG for Sport yesterday in the House of Commons with the excellent Kim Leadbeater MP chairing.
We had eloquent and passionate introductions from Mark Lawrie from StreetGames UK Hitesh Patel from the Sport for Development Coalition and Sarah Kaye from Sported .We clearly now have the growing evidence base for the impact the hundreds of sports charities are having across the country and in constituencies. The OpenGoal framework passionately led by Simon Lansley demonstrates what impact we can have on delivering the government (This one and the next) objectives to tackle many social issues
LLEP welcomes Passivehaus accreditation for sport park pavilion
Andy Reed OBE, LLEP Co-Chair, said: “Sustainability is a pillar of our economic growth strategy and, in funding SportPark Pavilion 4, we enabled development of a superb building at the highest standards of energy efficiency.
I attended my first Midlands Engine Board on behalf of the East Midlands LEPS yesterday. We had building work going on so I was on mute more than usual!
I have always been a big advocate for an the East Midlands voice - pushing for Regional Assemblies as far back as the early 1990s. So the current devolution debate fascinates me at a personal, practical and policy level.
I previously never gave much thought to the West Midlands but working more collaboratively I see how similar our problems are and how much we have been overlooked by policy makers for too long.
LLEP Chair responds to Government decision to transfer functions to local authorities
Spring Budget states Government will transfer central support by April 2024
Updated policy position expected to be provided to LEPs by Summer
Announcement comes after months of LLEP work with local partners
The LLEP will continue to work closely with partners as it awaits Government guidance as to how its functions should be transferred to local authorities by April 2024.
I was pleased to attend the launch of 'Space City Leicester' today at the National Space Centre as part of a growing Space Park Leicester
An ongoing journey for many of the people who have been involved for the last few decades! I have so many early memories of the development of this land in the 1990's! If you live in Leicester and haven't visited the Space Centre I would urge you to go.
The initiative builds on the huge success of University of Leicester and partners including the Leicester City Council and the LLEP recognising he potential of a space cluster. Already Space Park has exceeded our expectations and there is still so much still to come. The EZ's on our @Llep patch are really starting to deliver jobs and growth for the City and County.
We were delighted to welcome Robert Halfon MP today to officially open our new T-Level Centre. The Minister said 'It was an honour to open this fantastic new building at Loughborough College, which will ensure T Levels students will have access to the world-class facilities.
A packed room for
for International Women’s Day event - showing support from
and so many supporters of this agenda in one place!
Andy Reed joined friends at the Loughborough based Youth Sport Trust Awards in Telford last night.
Andy Said “It is one of the sports evenings I look forward to, where genuine hard working and inspiring people are making a difference to people’s lives.
I enjoy celebrating people who have committed their professional and personal lives to young people and being inspired by the young leaders.
