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NEWS: Click here to see the new Swindon & Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership website

 

Our Vision 

The WSEP Vision is to coordinate and lead the development of the Wiltshire economy. The strategic partnership is supported by a family of delivery groups for Wiltshire, which implement the Swindon & Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership (SWLEP) agenda.

 

The WSEP Board comprises senior Wiltshire business men and women, organisations such as Wessex Association of Chambers of Commerce, Federation of Small Business and Jobcentre Plus in addition to senior officers from Wiltshire Council responsible for the Economic agenda.

 

Under the new Chairman, Paul Johnson, WSEP is undergoing a significant change in organisation. Please see the proposed structure here.  From 2012 the WSEP Board, which meets monthly, will be organised into the following delivery sub groups, each with a website and a chairperson to report to the Board:

 

The sub groups are as follows,

Invest in Wiltshire	Inward investment, business location, planning
Work Wiltshire	Education, skills, jobs, apprenticeships
Buy Wiltshire	Support local business, public tender information, local sources, business events
Visit Wiltshire	Tourism
Connecting Wiltshire	Infrastructure, road, rail, freight and broadband

 

The WSEP Board is evolving a series of targets and initiatives for the sub-groups based around the SWLEP vision to create 6,000 jobs in Wiltshire by 2015 and safeguard 8,000 others. It is important that the Board has a balance of different business sectors, business sizes and business location.

 

Geographic coverage will include representatives from Economic Community Areas in the M4 corridor (Chippenham and the north), the A350 corridor (Trowbridge and the mid west) and the A303 corridor (Salisbury and the south). There will also be representation from businesses of size micro (1-9 employees), small (10-49 employees), medium (50-199 employees) and large (200+ plus employees).

 

An in depth analysis of the Wiltshire labour market has revealed that the main business employment sectors in Wiltshire (excluding the public sector) are manufacturing; retail; accommodation & food services; professional scientific & technical;  business administration & support services; construction; wholesale; transport & storage; information & communication; and financial & insurance. The job creation and job safeguarding targets WSEP hopes to achieve will come, at least in part, from the consolidation of these  sectors.