Sunderland Partnership - Prosperous City

The Economic Prosperity Partnership ensures economy related issues remain at the heart of the SP’s agenda and is responsible for delivering the ‘Creating a Prosperous City Chapter’ of the Sunderland Strategy. It advises on bids for funding for projects related to the economy and develops a coherent strategic framework for economic activity across the City.

Andrew Perkin is the contact for the Prosperous City Thematic Group. Andrew attended a Delegates Meet and Greet on 24th August and you can find his presentation below.  Contact Andrew at Andrew.Perkin@sunderland.gov.uk

Delegates

Mark Saddlington - msaddington@aol.com

New Working Neighbourhoods Fund

The Government has announced the areas in England that will receive a share of the new Working Neighbourhoods Fund. Sixty-six local and twenty-one transitional authorities will receive allocations over the next three years totaling over £450 million in 2008/09, and £500 million in 2009/10 and 2010/11.

The Fund is a new, dedicated fund for local councils and communities to develop more concentrated, concerted, community-led approaches to getting people in the most deprived areas of England back to work. It replaces the existing Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and incorporates the Department for Work and Pension's Deprived Areas Fund to create a single local fund.

At least £50 million of the £1.5 billion Fund will be available as a reward fund which will go to areas that have made good progress over the first two years on tackling worklessness and improving enterprise levels.

Individual local authority allocations are listed in the attached, together with the narrative from DCLG. Additional info is on the website of the Department for Communities and Local Government: www.communities.gov.uk

         News article: http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/566533

FUTURE MEETINGS

AGENDAS FOR PROSPEROUS CITY PARTNERSHIP MEETINGS

MINUTES FROM PROSPEROUS CITY PARTNERSHIP MEETINGS

A message from Kevin Donkin - received on 14th November 2007

Dear All,

You may recall from the last meeting of the Economic Prosperity Group that consultants were being sought to undertake an impact study on the Job Linkage service and prepare a DAF delivery plan for 2008/09. I can now inform you that EKOS of Sheffield has been appointed, and that an inception meeting has been held to define the parameters of the study. The consultants (Tim Allan is the Head) may be contacting you directly over the next couple of weeks to discuss the project, and it is likely that there will be a special meeting of the Economic Prosperity Group at which initial findings can be discussed. I will be in touch again with details of this - as well as of the forthcoming workshop with Helmepark consultants, which will be looking at the Sunderland Strategy chapter.

Regards,
Kevin Donkin
0191 - 561 1210

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