Stephen Criddle

HotSW LEP

Chairman of the

LEP People

Leadership Group

Welcome

Victoria Gage

Enterprise Advisor Network

Enterprise Adviser Network (EAN)

• Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) funded by Dept. for Education

• Funding provided by CEC

• HotSW LEP invited to submit proposal in June 2015, approved July

• Devon County Council Accountable body

• Up to £150,000 of funding available from CEC to HotSW

• Matched by 4 upper tier authorities; Devon, Plymouth, Somerset & Torbay

• CSW Group procured to deliver the programme on behalf of HotSW LEP

• 34 schools actively engaged across HotSW LEP area

• Further funding available to extend programme to 63 schools

Enterprise Adviser Network (EAN)

Enterprise Adviser Network (EAN)

Enterprise Adviser Network (EAN)

The Enterprise Adviser Network is a programme designed to encourage businesses and schools to work together to support young people in making informed choices about their future careers.

Kate Doodson, joint CEO at ethical IT business Cosmic, is here to tell us why she signed up as one of the first business mentors on this new programme and about her work as an Enterprise Adviser at Cullompton Community College.

Enterprise Adviser Network (EAN)

To find out more about becoming an EA visit www.heartofswlep.co.uk/easapply

Some of the businesses supporting the HotSW EAN:

Growth Deal FE Project

Update

Jamie Evans

Bridgwater College

Photos of LEP funded equipment

City College Plymouth

Turf Cutting Ceremony

New STEM Centre

Bridgwater College Hinkley Skills Capital

• £5,146,000 of Growth Deal 1 funding• 10,849 people to be trained during first 5

years of project• 33 new jobs created in the college in the

first 2 years of the project• 33% progression rate of unemployed

learners into employment upon completion of training

Plymouth College STEM Centre

• £5,430,000 of Growth Deal 1 funding• 420 new learners• 675 sqm refurbished training/learning

facilities• 4,632 sqm new build training/learning

floorspace (new STEM, Creative and Digital Media and Marine Engineering Centre by end of Sept 2017)

Somerset College Centre for Engineering

• £596,318 of Growth Deal 1 funding• Increase in learner numbers from 2013/14 over 5 years –

subject areas engineering and the built environment- 1,283• Increase in learning numbers from 2013/14 over 5 years -

subject areas engineering and the built environment, excluding higher education and community learning-1,095

Total Committed Growth Deal Funding £17,672,318 of LGF before match

17,797 New Learners

Hinkley HPTA

• Bicton (Cornwall College)- Dedicated Skills Centre for

Engineering and Construction

• Bridgwater-HPTA-National College for Nuclear

• Exeter College- Centre for Advanced Industrial Automation

• Petroc (North Devon)- Devon Nuclear Hub

• South Devon College- suite of small capital developments.

Project now completed and in delivery.

• Yeovil College-addressing skills gaps in Construction/Civils and

Facilities Management. Progressing towards agreement.

As part of the LEP’s Growth Deal allocation £6.5m was made available to Further Education providers to competitively bid into, to help deliver direct skills to support the Hinkley Point C project and to ensure skilled employees are able to backfill jobs due to increased labour market demands from the project. These projects will be delivered across the LEP area in association with the Hinkley Point Training Agency (HPTA):

HotSW LEP Construction Labour & Skills Steering

Group

Frances Brennan

HotSW LEP Vice Chair

and

Construction Labour & Skills Champion

Angus Hamilton

CITB