North East Recycling Forum

8th September 2011

A Picture of Business Support in the North East

Waste Management Sector

Chris Hayward MCIWM

Managing Director – RenewPlus Ltd

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Contents

• Introduction

• Pre- Coalition Landscape

• Coalition Changes

• Current North East Landscape

• Business Support Organisations

• RenewPlus

• The future

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• This might be a short presentation!

• Disclaimer….

• What is business support?

• Change in expectations

• Change in culture?

• Is it all about RGF now?

Introduction

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• ONE North East

• Business Link

• Government Office

• WRAP

• Envirowise/MAS/NISP

• Renew/Renew Tees Valley

Pre-Coalition Landscape – Main Players were…

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Coalition Changes

• Queens Speech

• Review of Waste Policy

• The Budget

• The Coalition Agreement

Main sources of change were via:

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Coalition Changes

• Decentralisation and Localism Bill

• Public Bodies (Reform) Bill

• Energy Security and Green Economy Bill

Queens Speech

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Coalition Changes

Decentralisation and Localism Bill

• Abolition of Regional Spatial Strategies

• Creation of new Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP’s) - joint local authority-business bodies brought forward by local authorities to promote local economic development (replacing RDA’s)

• Building the ‘Big Society’

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Coalition Changes

• New powers to abolish quango’s – Oct. 2010 announcement (190+ to go, 53 in DEFRA alone)

• Reducing the cost of bureaucracy: anticipated year on year savings of £1 billion (?!)

• To review the functions of all public bodies every three years, as opposed to the current practice of every 5 years 

Public Bodies (Reform) Bill

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Coalition Changes

• Confirms an ‘adequate’ approach to waste (CIWM)

• Much remains to be done – a lost opportunity

• Household waste ‘heavy’ focus

• Reward & Recognition Scheme

• Waste Prevention Loan Fund

Review of Waste Policy &

New DEFRA Business Plan June 2011

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Coalition Changes

• “The role of social enterprises, charities and co-operatives in our public services will be enhanced’’

• Where appropriate, public services markets will be opened up to allow social enterprise, charities and co-operatives to bid to run public services.  Barriers to involvement will be identified and measures will be implemented

Third Sector

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Coalition Changes

The Budget - June 2010• The Government will increase the standard rate of landfill tax by £8 per tonne on 1 April 2011 until at least 2014, and introduce a floor so that that the rate will not fall below £80 per tonne until at least 2020

• £1.4Bn Regional Growth Fund announced (over 3 yrs)

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Coalition Changes

• First round completed

• Second round bid window closed 1st July 2011

• 490 bids for £3.3million of RGF funding Round 2

• Results of second round expected Sept/Oct 2011

• Impact unknown and difficult to forecast

£1.4bn Regional Growth Fund

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Coalition Changes

£1.4bn Regional Growth Fund Round 1

A V Dawson Limited Bridon International Limited Chirton Engineering Ltd Cleveland Potash Limited (CPL) Connor Solutions Ltd Cumbrian Holdings Ltd DUCO Ltd Durham County Cricket Club Holdings Ltd. Lotte Chemical UK Limited Nifco UK Ltd Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited Proctor & Gamble Technical Centres Limited SSI UK Ltd Turbo Power Systems Limited

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Coalition Changes

Summary – Local Context• Abolition of ONE North East and GO-NE

• Regional Strategies and Regional Spatial Strategies Scrapped

• Audit Commission to be scrapped

• New Local Enterprise Partnerships

• New Regional Growth Fund

• Review of Waste Policy

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Current North East Landscape

• Smaller public sector – ONE, GO-NE etc

• Local authorities – reduced capacity

• Less business support – BENE, ONE, Renew etc

• Very little available as regards grants, funds, loans

• Regional Growth Fund

• 2 new Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP’s) – Tees Valley and North East

• Greater collaboration between Councils

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Today - North East ‘Business Support’

• RenewPlus

• Business Enterprise Group/BENE

• WRAP/NISP

• EU Funds – ERDF, Interreg etc

• NESRB

• WANE, NERF, CRNNE

• Misc organisations

• LEP’s?

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Business Link

• Business Enterprise Group (BEG)

• UKTI

• BtoB

• Investment Centre (NEEIC)

• Compete North East

• NE Service Provider Register

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North East ‘Business Support’

The majority of Business Support available now is

via networking and events

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Other Business Support Organisations

• Local Authority Enterprise Teams

• Entrust

• Service Network

• Business Networks/Clubs

• NECC/FSB

• Lottery/Princes Trust/Northern Rock etc

• TWDC/CDDC/TEDCO/TVU/Go Wansbeck

• Entrepreneurs Forum

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Renew+ - a summary

• Established in April 2011 from former Renew team

• EEIF – quality events, newsletters, jobs, blogs

• TenderHub & TenderHub Plus – tender portal with access to over 8000 new tender opportunities every week

• CIWM Waste Awareness Certificate Training

• Consultancy

• NESRB Secretariat

• WANE Secretariat

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and so, the future…

• Is it going to get worse before it gets better?

• Will the RGF and LEP’s be the answer ?

• Will WRAP be the main hope for business support?

• Business Enterprise Group - will they have funds?

• Waste Policy, DEFRA, DCLG

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Thank you!

Chris HaywardT: 0191.4956260 M: 07971197063

chris@renewplus.co.uk

www.renewplus.co.ukwww.eeif.co.uk

www.nesrb.org.uk

North East Recycling Forum

8th September 2011

A Picture of Business Support in the North East

Waste Management Sector

Chris Hayward MCIWM

Managing Director – RenewPlus Ltd