Posts tagged: LEPs

North Eastern LEP – Board announced – what next for social Inclusion?

7 July 2011 – 12:39 pm

At last some positive news from the North Eastern LEP, as 8 business leaders join the Board. Paul Woolston snr partner at PwC will take the Chair, announcing that “I want to galvanise the region, to make this partnership makes this a better place to live and work” He is joined by Fiona Cruikshank, David [...]

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Corporate Social Responsibility in the North East, Paul Walker, lessons in Community Development and the distraction of Geordie Shore

29 June 2011 – 4:10 pm

Last night I attended the North East Business in the Community Awards. It was an impressive reminder that a number of businesses in the North East take Corporate Social Responsibility seriously. Particular thanks and congratulations must go to Ken McMeikan, Greggs Chief Executive, who was once again asked by Prince Charles to be his Business [...]

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Jo’s Tory Party Conference Diary

8 October 2010 – 2:45 pm

The highlight of the conference was Monday evening when Claire Fox Director of the Institute of Ideas debating “Big Society” with Lord Wei. (Wei kindly stepped in as Nick Hurd had had to leave conference unexpectedly early). Wei’s analogy of growing the big society being akin to the emergence of the ICT revolution was as [...]

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Will the North East still exist on Monday?

2 September 2010 – 9:59 am

VONNE understands that there are likely to be at least 4 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) proposals submitted from the North East to Government in the next few days. VONNE supports the move by Business and Local Authority Leaders to submit a proposal to develop a North East Strategic Economic Partnership which will ensure that European [...]

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