1. North Eastern
  2. Cumbria
  3. Tees Valley
  4. York, North Yorkshire and East Riding
  5. Lancashire
  6. Leeds City Region
  7. Liverpool City Region
  8. Greater Manchester
  9. Humber
  10. Sheffield City Region
  11. Cheshire and Warrington
  12. Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
  13. Greater Lincolnshire
  14. Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire
  15. Leicester and Leicestershire
  16. The Marches
  17. Black Country
  18. Greater Birmingham and Solihull
  19. Northamptonshire
  20. Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough
  21. New Anglia
  22. Coventry and Warwickshire
  23. Worcestershire
  24. South East Midlands
  25. Gloucestershire
  26. Hertfordshire
  27. Buckinghamshire Thames Valley
  28. Oxfordshire
  29. London
  30. Thames Valley Berkshire
  31. West of England
  32. Swindon and Wiltshire
  33. Enterprise M3
  34. South East
  35. Coast to Capital
  36. Solent
  37. Dorset
  38. Heart of the South West
  39. Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough

Background

GCGP aims to drive forward sustainable economic growth in its area – with local business, education providers, the third sector and the public sector working together to achieve this.

Its goal is to create an economy with 100,000 major businesses and create 160,000 new jobs by 2025, in an internationally-significant, low-carbon, knowledge-based economy balanced wherever possible with advanced manufacturing and services.

Strategic areas of focus are:

  • Skills and employment
  • Strategic economic vision, infrastructure, housing and planning
  • Economic development and support for high growth business
  • Funding, including EU funding, regional growth funding and private sector funding

The GCGP area currently has a population of 1.3 million people, which is estimated to grow to 1.5 million by 2031. It hosts a number of globally-significant business clusters, world class research capacity linked to our universities, a number of thriving market towns, and is the UK’s leader in agriculture, food and drink. The area boasts 700,000 jobs, 60,000 enterprises and generates £30 billion per annum.

Geography

GCGP LEP covers the local authority areas of Rutland, Peterborough, West Norfolk and King’s Lynn, Fenland, East Cambridgeshire Huntingdonshire, Cambridge, South Cambridgeshire, St Edmundsbury, Forest Heath, North Hertfordshire and Uttlesford.

Board and Governance

Board recognised: 21/4/2011

Chair: Mark Reeve

Enterprise Zone(s)

The GCGP enterprise zone is sited at Alconbury Airfield in Huntingdonshire.

News

http://www.yourlocalenterprisepartnership.co.uk/?s=news

Key Contacts for LEP

Laura Welham-Halstead

Phone: 01223 967009 or 01733 602099
Post: Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Enterprise Partnership, Building 137 Alconbury Weald Enterprise Campus, Alconbury Airfield, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE28 4WX

LEP Twitter: @YourLEP

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