AIMING HIGHER ANELUN UWCH

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AIMING HIGHER ANELUN UWCH THE 3rd PROWESS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Andrew Robinson MBE NatWest The Royal Bank of
Scotland
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• Rethinking regeneration
• enterprise for all?
• www.enterpriseforall.info

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Skills

• life skills
• on-the-job
• meaningful apprenticeships
• using procurement process to require local skill
  development
• competitive advantage of areas

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Finance

• flexibility to address gaps
• more honest links with business (and other)
  support
• community development finance institutions
• housing associations
• different subsidy models
• transaction costs
• start up capital for the poor
• ex-offenders
• insurance in most disadvantaged areas
• rents proportionate to income

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Business support

• visibility (money wasted on conventional
  advertising)
• relevance of generalist approach
• wrong people
• wrong skills
• signposting versus meeting actual needs
• too financial, not enough personal
• SWAT team approach better
• coaches
• reactive or proactive
• language and motivation
• connections with non-traditional agencies
• consultants
• development trusts and multipurpose organisations
• growth or lifestyle

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The rules

• state aid
• clawback
• best value
• (mis)use of subsidy and sweeteners
• creative and purposeful application of the rules
• spend time frames and structures
• benefit trap
• test trading/social wage

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Physical regeneration

• whole system approach
• getting the mix right
• procrurement preferences
• conflict between big and local solutions

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Inter-Agency behaviours

• expectations versus reality
• stakeholder influence
• wide remit/narrow interpretation
• hard work
• more than my jobs worth
• turf

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Community development

• parallel universe with no links to small
  business/start ups
• could be shop front for enterprise promotion
• the money doesnt force relationships

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Ideas and markets

• WEETU model of development and support
• Local authority leadership/creativity/influence/br
  okerage
• Purposeful networking
• Creative process or structural

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People

• inspiring
• confidence building
• culture changing
• engaging the hard to reach
• participation
• risk
• pulling up the ladder
• the system (Job Centre Plus)
• attitude/language dissonance between
  cultures/approaches
• fosthering leadership
• role models
• awards
• not big business, but capacity issues for small
  business
• not CSR
• media
• purposeful networking