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Who we are
Our mission is to build on the South East Midlands reputation as a premier location for growth, innovation, creativity and world-leading technologies, which will result in a doubling of the area’s GVA by 2050.
Take a look at the people and organisations in the South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership (SEMLEP).
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Skills
Working with employers, education providers and young people to nurture the pipeline of talented people with the attributes and skills needed for our dynamic economy.
Business
Supporting businesses directly to start-up and grow. We boost innovation and enterprise, facilitate trade and attract business investment into the area.
Funding
Attracting and delivering investment into the area to help our local businesses to thrive, people to prosper and our places to flourish.
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Strategy
SEMLEP has a key role in setting the economic priorities for the South East Midlands. Our strategies set out the strengths and investment needs for our innovative, resilient and inclusive economy.
Investment Programme
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SEMLEP Investments
SEMLEP works with several partners to deliver investment in the South East Midlands. Discover some of the projects that boost innovation, develop people and enhance our places.
MAHLE Powertrain: Road to Zero vehicle testing facility
This project will provide an R&D facility to engineer the next generation transport technology, central to the government’s Road to Zero strategy, with the development of a new test chamber at MAHLE Powertrain in Northampton.
Vulcan Works
Central to the cultural quarter in Northampton Town Centre, the Vulcan Ironworks will transform a largely derelict building into a business and learning space for creative industries.
Northampton College Advanced Engineering Centre
This is a state-of-the-art facility at the Northampton College Booth Lane Campus, supports learners to develop the skills needed for the most up-to-date construction and engineering technologies.
Enterprise Centre East Northants
The new Enterprise Centre will offer start-up and growing businesses first-rate flexible workspace and business support when the new £8 million state-of-the-art facility opens at Warth Park, Raunds in Spring 2020.
MK Gallery
This project supported the transformation of Milton Keynes Gallery, enabling a doubled gallery space, facilities for cinema, performance and events, dedicated education and community facilities and a new cafe.
MK:U Educational Acceleration in Digital Skills
This project will enable MK:U to pilot four courses to 500 students, three years ahead of the proposed opening of its permanent site in central Milton Keynes.
Smart Commuting
This scheme sees improvements to junctions along key corridors in Northampton town centre, resulting in improved journey times and reliability.
Make the connection
Our area is where progressive companies come to collaborate, to innovate and to succeed. The area’s connectivity and high-quality environment has, over decades, attracted highly skilled people into businesses and research institutions that now lead innovation in some of the UK’s fastest-growing, high technology sectors.
By investing in people, places and business, the South East Midlands is where we create opportunity.
Latest News
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Garden villages to create thousands of new homes
6th January 2017The first wave of garden villages planned to create thousands of new homes across England has been... Read More
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New ERDF calls are open
19th December 2016SEMLEP is pleased to announce that new calls for European Regional Development Fund projects worth... Read More
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New Daventry Campus opens to students
13th December 2016The first students to move into a £13million new college campus have said the state-of-the... Read More
Latest events
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EU Exit: The importance of Incoterms in international contracts
20th January 2021, 14:00 to 20th January 2021, 15:00Clear and unambiguous shipping and delivery terms are core components of a robust international contract and the responsibility of... Read More
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EU Exit Surgeries
21st January 2021, 09:00 to 21st January 2021, 16:00Have you got an EU Exit issue that you are finding it hard to get answers for? Do you require a detailed action plan to continue trading... Read More
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EU Exit Deal: Implications & actions
21st January 2021, 14:00 to 21st January 2021, 15:00Four and half years after the EU Exit referendum, the UK and the EU have reached an agreement on their future trading relationship... Read More
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