FACILITATOR: SANDRA TURNER, EU AND INTERNATIONAL MANAGER, NCVO
CHAIR: ANITA PROSSER, CHAIR OF EUROPEAN FUNDING NETWORK
SPEAKERS: NICK DEXTER, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SUE ORMISTON, BIG LOTTERY FUND
S9: GETTING READY FOR £600 MILLION INVESTMENT FROM THE EU
Overview - European Structural and Investment Funds 2014-2020
Linked local investments
European Growth Programme
in England€7.2bn (£5.2bn)
95% allocated to LEP areas
ERDF (DCLG)€3.6bn (£2.6bn)
EAFRD (Defra) €215m (£156m)
ESF (DWP) €3.3bn (£2.4bn)
YEI (DWP) €159m (£114m)
Priorities for ERDF spending in 2014-20
1. Research & Innovation – 21%
2. ICT - 3.4 %
3. SME Competitiveness - 40%
4. Low Carbon economy - 22%
• 95% of ERDF will be spent across 8 objectives• 5% on Technical Assistance• 80% of investments will support objectives 1 to 4
Financial Instruments (FIs) are business loans and equities finance available under ERDF.
There are 4 FI models supporting objectives across 3 of the 8 priority areas: innovation, SMEs and low carbon economy.
5. Environmental Protection - 3 %
6. Climate change adaptation -2 %
7. Sustainable transport in Cornwall & Isles of Scilly – 1.6%
8. Social Inclusion – 1.4%
Technical Assistance – 5%
Priorities for ERDF spending in 2014-20
£2.6bn for 2014-20 Programme allocated to:
• SME competitiveness: £1,095m
• Low carbon approaches: £605m
• Research and innovation: £585m
• ICT and broadband: £103m
• Environmental protection: £81m
• Climate change adaptation: £52m
• Transport for Cornwall/IoS: £43m
• Social inclusion: £38m
Priorities for ERDF spending in 2014-20
SME competitiveness: £1,095m
• Access to finance through grants, loans and equity to help
businesses grow where some groups of Local Enterprise Partnership
areas are looking to build on current financial instruments to improve
access to finance for small businesses while others look to collaborate
to set up new financial instruments
• Business support including advice services for
entrepreneurship, commercialisation, and exports;
• Business support for new business start-ups;
• Premises for SMEs including managed workspaces and
business incubators where demand is shown to exceed supply.
Priorities for ERDF spending in 2014-20
Environmental protection: £81mCoastal resilience (indicative 40%):
• managed realignment and mitigation of coastal squeeze
• shoreline re-nourishment, cliff and dune system stabilisation
• harbour, port and waterfront enhanced protection and adaptations not linked to transport
• improvements to coastal frontages and seawalls
• strengthening and extensions to estuary embankments
Fluvial risk management (indicative 30%):
• onsite or upstream attenuation and slowing the flow measures
• diversion channels
• raising strengthening and/or extending river walls and frontages
• fixed and temporary barriers and gates
• stepped back embankments
• resilience measures for business infrastructure, including for example dry or wet flood-proofing
• river restoration and improved conveyance measures
Surface water run-off and drainage systems (indicative 30%):
• integration, including retrofitting, of surface water and run off management measures into urban and
commercial redevelopments
• innovative measures in contexts where flood risk and land management relies on pumping and interrelates
with drainage
Priorities for ERDF spending in 2014-20
£2.6bn for 2014-20 Programme allocated to:
Environmental protection: £81m
• Investment in green and blue infrastructure such as green
corridors in urban areas and waterways
• Sustainable drainage to improve water quality and in some
cases local air quality.
• Provision of support and advice for businesses in the adoption
of innovative technologies and processes for the management and reuse
of energy, materials, water and waste (including recycling and recovery)
• Provision of support for the development, testing and
demonstration of innovative technologies to promote resource efficiency
Priorities for ERDF spending in 2014-20
Community-Led Local Development (CLLD): £38m
• Targeted on specific geographic areas of need and opportunity.
• Prioritising the needs of areas as identified by reference to the 20%
most deprived areas using the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD).
• Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, area 70% of resource available will
target the 30% most deprived areas according to the IMD. The
remaining 30% of resource may target areas outside of these where
they are adjacent
• Aim to overcome persistent barriers to growth and employment in
lagging areas or deprived communities, reduce the risk of poverty and
social exclusion, through improved access to economic growth and
development opportunities.
Better education, training
Social inclusion
Employment and Mobility
ESF spends against 3 thematic objectives
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• TO 8 – Promoting sustainable and quality employment and supporting labour mobility – 917m ESF
• TO 9 – Promoting social inclusion, combating poverty and any discrimination - 751m ESF
• TO 10 – Investing in Education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning – 1084m ESF
Differences in focus between 2007-13 and 2014-20
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The 2014-2020 ERDF programme differs from previous programmes because it has:
• A flexible, single programme across England – rather than 10 programmes
• A highly localised model built around functional geographies (LEP areas)
• Stronger focus on results rather than just spend
• Financial focus on top priorities – SMEs, innovation and low carbon economy
• More segmented menu of policy priorities such as environment, flood
prevention and broadband
• A stronger geographic agenda with an emphasis on cities and local
communities (e.g. Sustainable Urban Development)
Governing ERDF in 2014-20
Growth Programme Board for England(ERDF, ESF and part of EAFRD)
PROJECTS
• Single ERDF programme for England – enables priorities and funding to be flexed across the country
• Strong local growth delivery network - translating local ambitions into strong deliverable compliant projects
• Working together with partners - local LEP area ESIF sub-committees provide advice/local intelligence on local needs and opportunities and help promote active participation
• Greater delegation of decision making on projects in London (through GLA) and to a lesser extent in 8 core cities (up to 10% of local ERDF allocations)
Local Growth Delivery Teams covering LEP
areas
39 LEP area ESIF sub- committees
DCLG as ERDF Managing Authority
Single programme
management team
An aligned European Growth Programme for England
LEP areas
How do we work with wider growth initiatives ?
LEPs
EZ funding
European Structural and Investment Funds
Growing Places Fund
Regional Growth Fund
programmes
Coastal Communities Fund
Strategic Economic
Plan
Local Plans and planning decisions
Further Education College
Investment
GROWTH
Jobs
Housing
Skills
Infrastructure
Regeneration
Transport links
Local authority assets and spending
Public private partnerships
Private Sector Investment
Growth Deals
National policy initiatives and strategic drivers
Enterprise
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Key Messages
• The Big Lottery Fund’s Opt in Offer
• The Application Process
• Role of the ESIF Committee
• Next Steps
• Questions and Answers
INTRODUCTION
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OUR MISSION
Making a real difference to communities and the lives
of people most in need
ESF TO9 Promoting
social inclusion and
combating poverty
OUTCOME 1 To maximise the impact of
funding
OUTCOME 2To improve access to
European Funds by VCSE
organisations
OVERALL VISION FOR BUILDING BETTER OPPORTUNITIES
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• Building Better Opportunities is now live
• 37 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) areas are expected
to opt-in
• 71 projects in 25 LEP areas are now open for application
• £300m investment over 3 years to tackle poverty and
promote social inclusion
KEY MESSAGES
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Baker Tilly / Ecorys are offering support and advice
regarding monitoring, audit and reporting
requirements.
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SUPPORT TO APPLICANTS
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1. Supporting those furthest from the labour market
2. Meet local needs and priorities
3. Actual costs
4. Grants, not contracts
5. Support available
A SUMMARYTHE BIG LOTTERY OPT IN OFFER
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2-STAGE COMPETITIVE GRANTS PROCESSAPPLICATION PROCESS
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Stage 1 Outline Proposal
Stage 2 Detailed Proposal
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BIG LOTTERY DEVELOPMENT GRANTSAPPLICATION PROCESS
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Stage 1 Outline Proposal
Development Funding
Lottery Money
Stage 2 Detailed Proposal
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• June / July 2015 – Stage 1 Application• August / September 2015 – Stage 1 Assessment • October 2015 – Stage 1 Decision Making• November / December 2015 – Stage 2 Application• January / February 2016 – Stage 2 Assessment
(there are multiple assessment windows so this is the earliest)
• March 2016 – Stage 2 decisions & award
All dates are subject to minor change
TRANCHE 1 KEY DATES
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• October / November 2015 – Stage 1 Application• December / January & February 2016 – Stage 1 Assessment • March 2016 – Stage 1 Decision Making• March / April 2016 – Stage 2 Application• May / June 2016 – Stage 2 Assessment
(there are multiple assessment windows so this is the earliest)
• July 2016 – Stage 2 decisions & award
All dates are subject to minor change
TRANCHE 2 KEY DATES
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1. Assessment and decision making for Tranche 1 Applications
2. Development of Tranche 2 project outlines
3. BBO programme management and evaluation
NEXT STEPS
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