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Yorkshire and The Humber Competitiveness and Employment Programme 2007-2013 Programme No. CCI UK 162 PO009

List of Beneficiaries Last Updated 20/5/13

Name of Beneficiary Name of Operation P Total ERDF

Contracted

Total Public / Private Match Contracted

Start Date End Date Description

The Art House Art House Phase 2 - Drury Lane Refurbishment

3 £1,353,751 £1,657,223 01/07/11 30/06/15

This project will build on the success of a project converting a listed building to convert the adjacent Drury Lane Library into 34 affordable and accessible workspaces for the visual art and related industries. Employment opportunities will be aimed at those with disabilities and female entrepreneurs and a Business Development Programme to help businesses to access financial support and new opportunities.

Barnsley College

Think Low Carbon Centre 2 £2,758,560 £1,485,378 11/02/2010 31/12/2012

The project designed and constructed the Think Low Carbon Centre within the campus of Barnsley College. It is a demonstrator centre with two practical demonstration areas used to showcase current environmental technologies and four multifunction rooms used for open days, seminars, providing advice and guidance or research.

Barnsley Development Agency Limited

Enterprise in Deprived Communities

3 £500,184 £500,184 01/04/2011 31/03/2014

This project focuses on problems facing new enterprises. It instils good business practice within community enterprises from the first stage of development. Through events, networking and exchanging good practice it raises the profile of social enterprise sector and helps individuals to develop new business ideas into viable business propositions, offering accessible, tailored support and signposts to other available help.

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

Cultural Infrastructure for the 21st Century 4 £2,442,146 £4,176,135 01/04/2011 30/08/2014

The project aim is to make Barnsley more competitive in relation to the social, economic and cultural heritage sectors of the Borough by promoting it to businesses and visitors across the Borough, South Yorkshire and beyond. It will develop Barnsley Town Hall and Wentworth Castle Gardens & Stainborough Park, using the enhanced gateway sites as hubs to the market and promoting the cultural, visitor and heritage sector.


Enterprising Barnsley 2 £2,891,000 £1,864,000 12/12/2008 31/03/2012

Enterprising Barnsley provides an integrated programme of initiatives. It will attract investment, accelerate development of indigenous businesses, and support/incubate businesses. The portfolio of projects focuses on Specialist Shared Business Support Environments, Coaching for High Growth, Business Collaboration Networks, and Maximising Foreign Direct SME Investment.


Enterprising Barnsley 2 2 £3,015,276 £1,623,791 01/04/2012 30/06/2015

Building upon the success of the Enterprising Barnsley Programme Phase 1, significant additional contribution will be made through the Phase 2 programme towards supporting and stimulating successful enterprises. It will provide an intensive and integrated package of intensive support focused on local (start up and established) business needs in order to create and accelerate economic growth in targeted Priority 2 sectors. The portfolio of projects focuses upon business start up support, business incubation, enterprise

coaching, networks and workshops and enterprise hubs.


Enterprising Young People 3 £586,063 £519,717 01/02/2013 30/06/2015

Enterprising Young People is helping 14-24 year olds in Barnsley to develop new enterprise start-ups. Five Enterprise Champions will provide private sector business expertise in an educational context to help develop enterprising ideas amongst young people. Project activity includes specialist start-up support and business mentoring, employer engagement, links to managed workspace and enterprise hubs and promotion of the opportunities & benefits of developing own enterprise. It also offers a Young People’s Enterprise Budget – up to £2,000 support to take forward their business plan.


Urban Centre Infrastructure for a 21st Century Market Town

4 £1,091,896 £1,867,172 01/06/2012 30/06/2015

The Urban Centre Infrastructure project will transform six key routes in Barnsley town centre, improving linkages between Barnsley’s Transport Interchange, Queens Court offices, The Civic & Mandela Gardens, Barnsley College and the Town Hall / Experience Barnsley. The project will create approximately 10,806sq metres of infrastructure; high quality routes for all who come to the town whether arriving by car, on foot or by public transport. It is supported by the proven principle that quality of place is an underpinning driver of economic performance and is a significant factor in garnering additional private sector investment.

Biorenewables Development Centre Ltd

Biorenewables Development Centre 1 £4,443,824 £2,499,651 31/10/2011 30/06/2015

Biorenewables Development Centre on the Science Park adjacent to the University of York offers the possibility of significant new regional growth through research and development activities and a range of support services for bio-based businesses. It focuses on feedstock research and development and process development, developing and scaling up technology for businesses to convert plants and biowastes into useful products.

Bradford Enterprise Agency

The City Hub 2 £985,127 £1,136,157 01/10/2010 30/12/2014

The project is refurbishing and extending a derelict mill building in Bradford to create a specialist catalyst centre for the Financial and Business Services sector, know as the City Hub. This will identify and support opportunities for new start-up businesses and job creation, and provide support to foster businesses with high growth potential within the sector.

Bradford Metropolitan District Council

Supporting and Stimulating Successful Enterprise in Bradford District

2 £1,564,878 £1,800,452 01/04/2011 20/09/2014

The project delivers specialist intensive assistance to businesses in key ERDF priority sectors, identifying and supporting opportunities for business start-up, business growth and job creation. Building on Bradford Council’s Local Enterprise Growth Initiative, it aims to narrow the gap in the economic performance of Bradford District, when compared to the Regional and National averages.

Bradnet Ilaan Enterprise Centre 3 £707,338 £736,209 13/08/2010 31/03/2015

The Centre will support disabled people in overcoming barriers to enterprise, creating workspace for entrepreneurs and acting as a ‘go-to’ place for disabled people and enterprise support providers. An exemplar project, its highly adapted environment will give significant support to disabled people and, by bringing together employers, entrepreneurs and employees, it will break down barriers to employment and enterprise opportunities.

Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Innovation and Capital: Business Creativity, Enterprise and Innovation Network Pilot – Calderdale

2 £1,113,338 £1,286,098 01/06/2011 30/06/2014

The Council and its University partners are delivering intensive and specialist assistance to businesses within the key ERDF priority sectors. Business products will include Coaching for High Growth, Cluster Collaborations, Networking for Innovation, and a Micro Knowledge Exchange Pilot. This project is known to the market as Business Growth Calderdale.

Case Training Services CASE Rebuild 3 £698,268 £712,375 01/04/2011 30/09/2014

The project will refurbish and extend two adjacent buildings to create a unique Centre of Excellence for people with learning disabilities. It will house social enterprises in managed workspace, facilitating engagement in economic activity by offering progressive steps towards employment and enterprise. The project will also provide for a Business Project Manager to advise and develop the social enterprises, and intensive business support to develop self-employment as a work option.

Chamber of Commerce (Barnsley and Rotherham LTD)

Regional Enterprise Programme 3 £3,240,273 £3,372,535 03/01/2012 31/12/2014

The aims to increase the region’s enterprise activity and business start-up rates in deprived communities, by delivering intensive start-up support, enterprise coaching and an Entrepreneur Network. Beneficiaries will come from under-represented, disadvantaged groups and deprived areas, specifically women, BAME, young people, older people, people with disabilities, economically excluded and inactive people, people living in the 20% most deprived areas and people wanting to start a business in a deprived area.

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

Bradford District Community Enterprise

3 £1,004,965 £1,045,985

01/07/2011 30/09/2014

The project delivers enterprise coaching in the Bradford District in order to develop an ‘enterprise culture’, boosting business start-up, growth and survival rates. It works with those in long-term unemployment to promote employment and self-employment opportunities, and educates employers about the benefits of employing and retaining those who were previously long-term unemployed. Support to both groups helps to create sustained employment positions and reduces ‘workforce churn’.


Enterprising Bradford 3 £4,959,433 £5,134,197 01/01/2007 31/12/2011

This project supports the growth of new enterprises in deprived communities in Bradford, and works with third sector organisations to help them identify opportunities for growth and become tender ready. In Halifax, the project links established companies to emerging community businesses and social enterprises in a mentoring programme. Additional activity facilitated delivery of the British Science Festival in Bradford in September 2011.


Enterprise Hubs 3 £763,338 £917,090

01/10/2009 28/02/2013

The project provides two enterprise hubs in Priority 3 areas of Bradford where there is a lack of incubator space, business support and other related activities. Both venues provide incubator space for new businesses and social enterprises and together will deliver 1,394m2 new or upgraded floor space and 130 businesses assists, 30 of which 30 will be to social enterprises.


Wright Watson Enterprise Centre 3 £513,692 £524,068 01/02/11 31/03/15

This project will convert a disused church building in Idle into a centre for stimulating enterprise. It will target inactive households in the wards of Idle & Thackley, Eccleshill, Bolton & Undercliffe, and Windhill & Wrose to attract ‘hard to reach’ groups. As well as high quality managed office space for up to 10 early stage businesses, the centre will provide work desks for up to 10 entrepreneurs where they can receive support from an Enterprise Coach, Employment Officer and access business

and library resources.

CO2Sense Ltd Lower Carbon Economy – Resource Efficiency Yorkshire

2 £3,469,815 £3,970,615 01/04/2009 30/06/2013

The Resource Efficiency Yorkshire programme builds on, integrates and simplifies the existing environment specific business support activity within the region. It combines a range of activities including support for re-use and recycling businesses of all types, increase in the number of technology providers and the development of more (and more versatile) environmental consultants.

Department for Business Innovation and Skills

Digital Region 4 £26,949,419 £43,472,805 07/04/2009 30/04/2012

This project aimed to transform the economy of South Yorkshire through the provision of high speed, next generation broadband services. This new infrastructure allows the public sector to utilise a more efficient and effective network for corporate services, and ensures both public and commercial companies can reach businesses and citizens, addressing the social inclusion agenda.

Department for Communities and Local Government

Technical Assistance for ERDF Programme Management

5 £341,903 £341,903

01/04/2008 30/06/2015

This project provides the core funding for activities to increase the quality and achievements of the Programme. This includes partnership and consortia development of ERDF projects in order to meet targets, appraisal and including specific support for capital Programmes, contracting and claims and auditing of ERDF projects ensuring minimum clawback, publicity and information, evaluation, development and implementation of cross cutting themes and overall Programme Management.

Doncaster Borough Council

Civic & Cultural Quarter (CCQ) Enabling Infrastructure

4 £2,443,761 £4,182,506 01/01/2010 30/09/2012

The project developed infrastructure and provided additional capacity to stimulate development of a Civic and Cultural Quarter in a run down area of Doncaster. This paved the way for the provision of a New Performance Venue and the redevelopment of 25 acres of Brownfield land for Council and commercial offices and leisure facilities, improving the attractiveness, footfall and commercial appeal of adjoining areas of the Town Centre.


Inclusive Enterprise 3 £4,000,000 £4,000,000 01/04/2008 30/06/2011

The project funds a number of streams of enterprise coaching and intensive start-up support targeted at the Doncaster’s deprived neighbourhoods and communities. Specific provision to improve understanding of and access to finance in these communities is also provided.


Inclusive Enterprise Phase 2 3 £2,050,028 £2,050,030 01/07/2011 30/06/2014

Phase 2 is a re-engineered enterprise model, building on lessons from Phase 1 to achieve economic recovery in deprived communities, broaden Doncaster’s business sectors, address the enterprise gap and foster demand and jobs to create a sustainable enterprise culture. The project is supporting start up businesses, facilitating and supporting early business development. It provides support for existing businesses, particularly for those businesses that do not traditionally access mainstream support and those with growth potential. It challenges attitudes and builds confidence, providing a stepping stone to mainstream support, mentoring, business networks, guidance to sources of finance and enterprise coaching.


Southern Gateway: White Rose Way Improvement Scheme Phase 1

4 £5,452,407 £9,343,716 01/03/2011 31/12/2013

This project addresses this gateway’s poor introduction to Doncaster. Improvement work is providing a high quality landscaping scheme and an imposing landmark feature on entering the town. This will deliver up to 2,000 jobs directly attributable to releasing planning restrictions on developable land in the town centre.


Southern Gateway Phase 2 4

£5,315,054

£9,096,695

01/12/2010 30/09/2014

Phase II will help remove the final barrier to the implementation of the full gateway scheme and its full economic benefits. It is delivering physical infrastructure gateway works to improve 1.1km of the A6128 and bring it up to dual carriageway standard, with junction improvements, landscaping and new pedestrian and cycle routes. This will transform the currently uninviting access to from the M18 and M1, creating a welcoming business infrastructure to facilitate the transformation of Doncaster’s economy into a creative and innovative one.


South Yorkshire Technical Assistance Phase 2

5 £1,014,773 £1,014,785 01/04/2011 30/06/2015

This programme is delivering activity across South Yorkshire to support the take-up of the ERDF programme 2011–2013, building on strong and active partnerships established during the first phase. It will deliver neighbourhood, local and sub-regional level activities across four local authorities, the South Yorkshire Forest Partnership and the Dearne Valley Eco Vision. Project delivery will focus on ensuring that resources are targeted effectively, embedding the integration of ERDF strategically and locally; thus ensuring that ERDF funding adds value to other key funding regimes and maximises partner input into the process.


Waterfront Phase 4 Gateway Infrastructure (Holmes Market Junction)

4 £1,146,968 £1,963,032 01/04/2011 30/12/2013

The reconfiguration of Holmes Market Junction forms a key part of Doncaster’s Urban Renaissance Masterplan, providing a gateway and access point to the Waterfront site which is a proposed extension to the Town Centre. It unlocks 15.66 hectares of Brownfield land for the development of a planned, vibrant, mixed-use development with a marina at its centre, creating a sense of arrival and improving the image of Doncaster as an urban centre.

Dransfield Properties Ltd

Penistone Gateway Infrastructure 2 £1,265,199 £1,173,869 01/01/10 30/06/14

Penistone Gateway Infrastructure is an urban development project which integrates and links a number of key development opportunities with the core of the town centre. It comprises new and improved junctions, access and entrance road to the centre and a covered public space in traditional materials forming a focal point for the market town. This will result in 7,900sqm of new commercial space that could accommodate up to 150 jobs, including a two storey commercial/office space specifically funded by ERDF with 2,122sqm of space for companies in target sectors of business and professional services and digital media.

East Riding College

Environmental Technologies Centre 2 £1,290,125 £1,490,324 01/12/10 31/07/15

The project is building a Centre of Excellence in Beverley, creating 1,131 square metres of knowledge and technology transfer space for SMEs in the environmental and renewables business sector. It will provide bespoke training for businesses, leading to courses in the management and maintenance of ‘green’ products and processes in order to allow SMES to become more efficient and environmentally sustainable.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

Capitol Park Goole 2 £8,402,840 £9,667,783 24/9/2010 31/12/2014

Capitol Park has been developed in response to demand in the marketplace to develop a cluster of Advanced Engineering and Environmental Technology companies. Situated adjacent to Junction 36 of the M62 at Goole, it will develop 122 acres of land, with a 200 acre site for future development, in order to act as a major strategic business and employment location, providing a major boost to the region’s economy.


East Riding Broadband 2 £5,154,409

£6,070,000

01/02/13

30/09/15

This project aims to improve the competitiveness and growth rates of SMEs in the East Riding of Yorkshire through improving access to superfast broadband (24 Mbs+). It will create the infrastructure for superfast broadband where the private sector has not done so, and support SMEs to avoid further market failures associated with the take up of superfast broadband access, ensuring they exploit the growth and competitiveness opportunities superfast broadband represents.


Humber Technical Assistance 5 £191,728 £191,882 01/04/2009 31/05/2012

Humber TA has the role of brokering and developing partnerships and consortia to take advantage of the drive towards larger more strategic investment of ERDF monies. The Humber TA Project ensures a single point of contact, linking complementary ideas within the sub-region and identifying where a broader delivery mechanism may be more appropriate, linking in with other regional TA projects.


Humber Technical Assistance Phase 2 5 £586,489 £586,488 01/04/12 30/06/15

Humber TA 2 provides technical assistance to organisations aiming to deliver, or delivering, ERDF funded activity. At this stage of the Programme there is a need to shift the focus from promotion and awareness of ERDF to supporting project development and successful delivery. Activity includes promotion of ERDF, technical support for project development, programme support, technical support for project delivery and strategic support. The project will help to shape the future of ERDF funding in the Humber and support the Local

Enterprise Partnerships to develop their strategic role in European funds.

E-Factor Enterprise (NEL) Ltd

Inspiring Enterprise 3 £3,509,012 £3,652,238 01/09/2010 30/06/2014

The project extends to scope of E-Factor’s LEGI programme to support and develop an enterprise culture in North East Lincolnshire, facilitated by an established network of enterprise centres. It reinforces support to individuals, SMEs and social enterprises at community level to encourage and support the creation of long-term sustainable enterprises and increase latent economic activity, providing a flexible, dynamic and sustainable infrastructure of support from pre-pre-start stages up to and including specialist support to existing enterprises. The project also provides coaching for the application of ICT in business and engages entrepreneurs in digital creative and cultural sector opportunities.

Electronics Yorkshire Electronics Yorkshire 2 £598,052 £539,259 01/01/2008 30/09/2010

Electronics Yorkshire supports the electronics sector within Yorkshire and Humber by providing specialist business support and consultancy services directly to the sector. It provides a unique range of equipment, and assists businesses in the development of new and better products.

Energy Works (Hull) Limited Hull Energy Works 2 £19,904,304 £15,009,402 01/02/14 30/09/15

Beginning construction in 2014, Hull Energy Works will develop an innovative Advanced Fluidised Bed Gasification process to recover energy from waste materials. It will reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill, and reduce air, water and visual pollution, and helping to alleviate reliance on fossil fuels. It will create jobs, regenerate the local economy and promote the Humber as a focus for renewable and low-carbon energy generation.

Finance Yorkshire Ltd

Venture Capital and Loan Fund 2 £30,000,000 £60,000,000 04/12/2009 31/12/2014

This project provides a regional Venture Capital and Loan Fund to build on the success of the Partnership Investment Fund (PIF) and the South Yorkshire Investment Fund (SYIF). The fund will maximise the potential for ERDF and uses the JEREMIE initiative to secure investment from the European Investment Bank.

Goodwin Development Trust Ltd

Future Hull – Enterprising Neighbourhood Renewal and Growth (ENRG)

3 £639,847 £652,773 01/04/13 30/06/15

This project runs a Pre-Enterprise Support Team and an Enterprise Start Up and Growth Team for public libraries and Council business centres across Hull. The first team provides extensive outreach awareness, information and engagement in areas of deprivation to promote an enterprise culture, while the second offers intensive enduring caseload management to new and existing SMEs, including those arising from pre-enterprise support.


Hull Enterprise Partnership 3 £2,079,325 £2,150,488 14/11/2008 30/09/2011

The project built on an established city-wide partnership of neighbourhood networks to provide outreach interventions. It supported the growth and development of enterprise and economic opportunity in Hull’s most deprived communities. Its activities encouraged individuals into the mainstream Business Link offer and the wider economy in order to increase income, employment, and productivity within deprived neighbourhoods.


The X Factory 3 £1,000,889 £1,041,742 01/10/2010 31/12/2011

This capital project provides 900m² of high quality managed workspace in a former supermarket in Hull. The project will create 33 jobs over a period of 3 years, 6 enterprises supported (of which minimum 2 will be social enterprises).

Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education

Grimsby Renewable and Environmentally Associated Technologies (GREAT)

1 £3,316,610 £1,865,594 01/01/13 30/06/15

This project seeks to drive innovative technology transfer solutions within the Humber and North Yorkshire coastal districts, focused on low carbon initiatives. It will develop local supply chains and encourage knowledge transfer to support emerging renewable energy industries, and encourage innovation and transformational change in existing energy users.

Groundwork Sheffield The Green Incubator 3 £412,516 £413,159 01/07/2011 31/12/2013

Groundwork Sheffield’s Green Incubator project provides 100 people on Job Seekers Allowance a year with an opportunity to incubate and establish a social or community enterprise. It is made up of an intensive six months enterprise development programme and a post start-up support period of 18 months. Businesses established include those undertaking commercial and domestic energy assessments, undertaking minor domestic capital works and recycling bicycles.

Groundwork Wakefield Limited

Wakefield Kirkgate Rail Station Development

3 £750,000 £777,336 01/11/10 30/09/15

This project is part of a major £4.6 million regeneration of Kirkgate Railway Station. The ERDF-funded strand will created 625sqm of incubation units and meeting rooms, providing space for new and start-up SMEs on an easy-in easy-out arrangement. The refurbishment of the whole building to BREEAM Very Good standard and the enterprise space provided will bring significant added benefit to this deprived area.

Hambleton District Council

Hambleton Managed Workspace 2 £2,316,853 £3,357,300 01/11/2007 31/08/2010

The programme created two targeted managed workspace projects within Hambleton. One, the Northallerton Managed Workspace, includes management space, communal space and service space, while Leeming Bar focuses on affordable food-grade workspace for new and young SMEs within secondary food production, building upon the area’s existing food cluster.

Hebden Bridge Community Association

Hebden Bridge Creative Quarter 2 £1,252,180 £1,446,488 01/02/2010 30/09/2014

The Creative Quarter adjoining the Town Hall will develop a growth cluster of knowledge-intensive businesses in the creative and digital sector. It targets newly-established and growing businesses as well as providing ‘at-need’ access to its facilities and support services for smaller, home-based businesses. The 750sqm of workspace and meeting rooms and conference facilities are equipped with high speed broadband, offering formal and informal networking and business exchange opportunities.

Homes and Communities Agency

Tower Works 2 £1,934,194 £2,230,737 06/09/2010 31/03/2012

This project is enabling first phase of development in Holbeck Urban Village, specifically focused at the Creative & Digital Industries (CDI) sector. These works will include immediate conservation works to one building, full development of the listed building known as the Entrance Range into managed workspace and conservation works to the Engine House.

Horncastle Group Plc The Beacon 2 £3,004,094 £5,094,714 01/10/2010 31/03/2015

The Beacon is a new Business Park in Hull designed to accommodate SMEs in Bioscience, Environmental and Healthcare Technology sectors. The one hectare park will comprise three high quality detached units totalling some 4,642sqm of business accommodation on three levels.

Horncastle Group PLC Green Park 2 £1,710,929 £1,976,407 01/07/12 31/08/15

This unique project will create 11 eco-offices targeted at Priority 2 growth sectors including advanced engineering and metals, food and drink and environmental technologies. It will develop infrastructure to service the 7.5 hectare site at Junction 38 of the M62 and create 2,443sqm of space. The business park will enable micro and SMEs currently operating out of growth-inhibiting, substandard premises to expand their activities and offer greater employment opportunities.

Huddersfield & District Textile Training Co Ltd

Textile Innovation Programme 1 £1,549,581 £2,118,849 01/07/2009 30/06/2012

The Textile Centre of Excellence provides an innovation centre for Technical Textiles including ‘close to market’ research and development to maximise business benefits from exploiting scientific and technological developments. It also supports a wide range of environmental improvement activities to allow manufacturers to use more environmentally friendly chemicals and reduce the use of power and water. Other applications from the programme include the use of nano and plasma technologies to produce fabrics which are self-cleaning, conductive fibres to make ‘smart’ clothing that can monitor the wearer’s body functions, and dressings that monitor wounds, prevent infection and deliver medication.

Incommunities Group LTD Locally Grown 3 £1,525,582 £1,517,188 01/09/12 30/06/15

This grass-roots approach to stimulating private and social economy sector growth supports business start up in social housing estates in Bradford, Leeds, Barnsley and Sheffield. By creating sympathetic conditions it supports Social Housing Tenants and others in these communities who recognise they are able to set up a business, and assists existing businesses and social enterprises to develop and expand in order to create jobs for local people and improve the local economies.

Ispace Investments LLP

Ipark2 3 £1,268,942 £1,341,954 01/01/2010 30/06/2015

The project focuses on the development of quality accommodation to meet the needs of around micro and SME firms in Hull requiring incubation, managed workspace and “grow on” space in a safe, secure environment. Run in partnership with Hull City Council, these business spaces will address a market failure which has seen a lack of such facilities, and provide space for around 150 jobs.

Key Fund (South Yorkshire) Ltd

CDFI Finance for SMEs and Social Enterprises

3 £9,966,979 £9,983,000 05/01/2011 31/03/2014

The regional Community Development Financial Institutions have developed a project that ensures regional coverage of the Solutions for Business product of ‘Small Loans for Business’. It supports new and growing businesses and Social Enterprises in deprived areas which have been unable to access mainstream finance, providing the best opportunity for them to develop and succeed.


Key Fund Yorkshire Social Enterprise Fund

3 £1,440,539 £1,405,188 29/07/2010 31/12/2013

The Social Enterprise Fund provides small grants of up to £3,000 for voluntary and community sector organisations and social enterprises in order to help them move from grant funding towards sustainability.


Key Fund Yorkshire Social Investment Fund

3 £1,456,140 £1,515,572 01/04/2007 30/11/2009

The project used ERDF funding to provide accessible and bespoke finance to help third sector organisations to move away from grant dependency towards financial resilience through income generated from providing products and/or services. It focused on areas of disadvantage and market failure and under-represented groups, providing mentor support as well as finance.


Understanding Finance for Business 3 £485,699 £476,348 01/04/2011 31/03/2015

This project, run by regional Community Development Financial Institutions, aims to provide SMEs, Social Enterprises and new starts with knowledge and understanding of debt finance as a tool for developing business plans and securing sustainability. This is done through presentations at large events, smaller, targeted workshops and bespoke organisational and ‘post investment’ support.

Kingston upon Hull City Council

KREATE (Kingston Rovers Enterprise and Training Experience)

3 £3,444,186 £3,584,764 23/08/2010 31/08/2014

This project will provide differentiated and distinctive physical accommodation in which to support start-up & early stage micro businesses in East Hull. It will provide accommodation for vocational, adult and enterprise skills training and the facilities needed to increase economic regeneration and inclusion in Craven Park. Part of a mixed-use regeneration programme in one of Hull’s most deprived areas, it will create local jobs and opportunities, and stimulate new businesses and business growth.

Kingston upon Hull City Council

Local Work Guarantee (Hull Employment / Retention / Mentoring)

3 £1,494,024 £1,032,052 05/02/2009 31/05/2012

Local Work Guarantee is the brand for an integrated suite of employment projects designed to address Hull’s worklessness issues. There are three separate but linked strands and ERDF supports strand three: Maintaining Employment Contract. This provides a job brokerage service linked to local employers, promotes inclusive recruitment practice and supports employers with accessing the broadest population of applicants, recruitment, and job matching.

Kirklees Council

Energy Innovation in Deprived Communities

3 £7,108,974 £8,454,264 01/04/2010 30/06/2014

This project aims to deliver a new approach to energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in the most deprived communities within Yorkshire and the Humber. It will target particularly hard-to-treat homes such as solid wall properties and those where energy efficient measures are not possible. This will in turn prepare the region in terms of jobs, skills, knowledge and experience to take advantage of the Government’s proposed Green Deal aspirations which will create 250,000 new jobs by 2030.

Kirklees Council

Kirklees Youth Enterprise Centre 3 £2,109,269 £2,760,087 01/01/2012 30/06/2015

The centre will build a culture which values, nurtures and promotes enterprise in young people across Kirklees. Focusing on the creative and media sector, it will encourage young people who show entrepreneurial flair. Operating outside of the normal national curriculum, support offered will include test trading, business mentoring, enterprise days, entrepreneur exchanges, ‘dragon’s den’, enterprise challenges and example companies within the centre.

Leeds City College

Incubation and Education 2 £4,177,020 £4,903,454 09/09/2010 31/12/2013

This project worked with Further Education Colleges to support the formation and growth of new businesses, helping College Learners, including community learners, make a success of enterprise. It worked with Further Education Colleges and the Young People’s Enterprise Forum to reach out to groups with an ‘enterprise deficit’ and people looking for new opportunities in response to redundancy and job loss.

Leeds City Council Create and Innovate 5 £89,650 £89,650 01/10/2008 31/12/2010

This project supported the successful delivery of the Regional Competitiveness and Employment Programme 2007-2013 in Yorkshire and the Humber. By raising awareness of the ERDF programme, it aimed to increase the number of projects approved by the Programme, ensuring planning and co-ordination relating to the Innovation agenda of Priority 1.

Leeds City Council Employment Leeds 3 £693,045 £693,045 01/01/2011 31/05/2014

Employment Leeds is overseen by the Worklessness Strategic Outcomes Group (WSOG) which includes key partners in Leeds. It brings together an offer of assistance for new and existing employers, undertaking job brokerage and retention activities. Activity will be commissioned to support the job brokerage requirements of large scale developments such as the Arena, City Centre retail schemes, Airport expansion and major regeneration schemes such EASEL and Aire Valley.

Leeds City Council Enterprising Leeds 3 £474,784 £494,164 01/04/2010 31/12/2014

Enterprising Leeds focuses on raising the profile of enterprise and increasing self-employment rates in some of Leeds’ most deprived communities. This is done through an integrated package of enterprise coaching and intensive start-up support. It is primarily delivered through a network of enterprise centres in deprived neighbourhoods, set up with LEGI funding. The centres will provide a central and single access point to enterprise support at a local level.

Leeds City Council

Middleton Enterprise Centre 3 £688,950 £746,463 01/01/2010 30/06/2013

The Middleton Enterprise Centre provides a two-storey new build to act as a central hub for encouraging and stimulating entrepreneurialism and self employment within the target communities. The Centre provides networking and hot desk space for budding new businesses, using the ‘Pay As You Go’ tariff model adopted by the existing catalyst centres in Leeds, as well as office accommodation of various sizes for up to ten additional commercial and social enterprises.

Leeds City Council

West Yorkshire Broadband 2 £4,219,341 £4,874,067 01/09/13 30/09/15

The aim of this project is to deliver fast and reliable broadband which is vital to the economic performance and social cohesion of West Yorkshire. It will support economic growth by making it easier to start and grow a business in the sub region, improving productivity, innovation and entrepreneurialism. As well as infrastructure, it will deliver business support activity to help local businesses in key sectors, helping them to improve performance, access new markets and diversify sale channels.

Leeds Community Foundation

Yorkshire Venture Philanthropy Programme

3 £736,462 £729,210 01/06/2012 31/05/2015

The first regional Venture Philanthropy Programme in the UK works with the private sector to encourage them to invest time and money in third sector groups looking to develop or grow social enterprise activity, and to use their services. It provides targeted business and professional advice to existing or potential social enterprises and offers grant funding and financial investment to help social enterprises to develop.

Lighthouse Group UK Ltd (The)

The Centre of Excellence Phase 2 2 £939,165 £1,083,155 01/10/2010 31/12/2013

Phase Two of the development of the Centre of Excellence provides bespoke, flexible incubation, start up and grow on space dedicated to the needs of new and high technology businesses within the Creative and Digital Industries (CDI) sector. This is a response to demand for a new technology enterprise hub for CDI, which will create jobs through business start up and business growth and provide an alternative geographic focus to the current support within the district.

Newlands Community Association (Trading) Ltd

Newlands Enterprise Park 3 £1,018,412 £1,527,466 01/07/2010 31/12/2011

This project is created one the largest straw bale buildings in Europe to form an Enterprise Centre and 14 work units. This created a sustainable Business Park where local organisations can grow and prosper whilst having a minimal impact on the environment.

North East Lincolnshire Council

CATCH 3 2 £1,500,576 £1,740,447 04/01/2011 30/06/2013

The project ensures that CATCH continues to add value for businesses by providing the right product for investors, the right mix of skilled and competent people and opportunities to facilitate industrial collaboration. It doubles capacity at CATCH, providing facilities to accommodate the current and future projected demand. It will create 612 jobs, leverage £750,000 private sector Investment and support 25 businesses.

North East Lincolnshire Council

Change Plus 3 £435,602 £491,211 01/04/2011 31/03/2014

Change Plus is set to make significant in-roads in preparing unemployed and hard to reach groups for employment. It will secure commitment from employers and help them to recruit people who are engaged, nurtured and employment-ready, creating sustainable employment opportunities. It will make key employment locations more accessible to residents of deprived neighbourhoods, adding to the existing Change Programme within North East Lincolnshire.

North Lincolnshire Council

Northern Lincolnshire Broadband 2 £3,072,922 £3,551,000 01/10/2012 30/09/2015

This project will offer an integrated package of support to help SMEs in Northern Lincolnshire fully capitalise upon the business opportunities offered through superfast broadband. It will provide both the infrastructure and business support needed to address market failure which has prevented investment in broadband provision, educating SMEs about the benefits of broadband access.

North Yorkshire County Council

Next Generation North Yorkshire (NYNET)

2 £13,182,859 £15,228,345 07/06/2011 30/06/2015

The project is connecting North Yorkshire SMEs to fast broadband, providing infrastructure and business support to address the market failure whereby businesses in rural North Yorkshire are unable to access services and markets with fast connectivity. It will improve dramatically the speed of access to and from North Yorkshire businesses, opening opportunities for business expansion through wide-scale market stimulation and state-of-the-art information exchange and development.

Pasture Development Company Ltd

Freeman Street Business and Community Hub

3 £705,403 £741,606 04/04/2011 31/12/2013

The project will convert 985sqm of Freeman Street market into facilities for community organisations and businesses. This will build on a highly successful pilot scheme and create 16 workshops and offices for new businesses, products and services. The development is responding to demand from creative and digital media users is flexible to accommodate a wide range of needs and will also safeguard 100 jobs and 6 businesses operating from the market by creating a sustainable use of space, increasing footfall and generating sales.

People United Against Crime

Business Crime Reduction Centre 2 £2,243,933 £2,012,000 01/10/2011 31/10/2014

The Business Crime Reduction Centre offers business support by providing security advice covering physical security and cyber crime threats. The Centre will support victims of crime and work with other businesses to mitigate crime-associated risks, helping businesses to survive in the short term, and seize future opportunities once the economic situation improves. It will create and safeguard jobs whilst removing the hidden costs of dealing with crime from small and medium sized enterprises.

Princes’ Trust (Yorkshire & Humber)

Princes Trust Enterprise Project 3 £762,526 £762,538 01/10/2011 30/06/2015

The Prince’s Trust Enterprise project will provide self-employment support for young adults aged 18-30 who have been long-term unemployed, have no formal qualifications, an offending background or who face economic and social isolation. Providing a region-wide enterprise support service for young entrepreneurs, the three-year project will create 414 new businesses in the region of which at least 207 will still be trading after 12 months.

Property Alliance Group Limited

Victory Higher Manufacturing Park 2 £2,130,169 £3,423,774 01/04/2010 30/09/2013

The Victory Higher Manufacturing Park is a capital project creating two buildings and remediating surplus land to support the development of new, high quality industrial and manufacturing accommodation in the Lower Don Valley.

Prospect Estates Limited

Darnall Managed Office Workspace, Sheffield

3 £683,249 £625,058 01/08/2010 30/11/2012

The project was required to fill the gap that exists in the market in the Darnall area for small managed office workspace at affordable rents on acceptable occupancy terms. It created 20 energy-efficient, ICT connected lettable units for micro/small businesses, with permanent onsite management providing a reception, a messaging service and meeting rooms.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Employability Programme (Economic Inclusion PPR) - South Yorkshire - Rotherham

3 £725,700 £803,277 01/04/2010 30/09/2012

The project tackled the growing issue of redundancy in order to minimise the effects of the recession on the labour market by delivering a coordinated approach on recruitment, retention and progression for Rotherham employers. It focused on addressing unemployment, employment retention and redundancy, supporting disadvantaged people and employers to safeguard and create jobs and promote sustainable businesses.


Growth & Prosperity in Rotherham (Soft Landing Zone)

2 £792,413 £476,111 01/04/2011 30/04/2015

Building on two decades of successful delivery of incubation programmes and inward investment, the next phase of development focuses on international business, and growth of existing businesses in to global markets. The first aspect is encouraging additional successful knowledge-based business to set up by attracting foreign business, while the second is working with home grown talent to develop ideas for export-focused businesses through accelerated development and support. Finally it encourages businesses to share ideas for development through an Ideas Bank.


Rotherham Enterprising Neighbourhoods

3 £3,827,670 £3,260,609 01/01/2007 30/06/2015

This project, aimed at Rotherham’s young people (18-30 yrs old), promotes sustainable economic growth and creates enterprise opportunities for individuals and businesses. It employs Business Support Officers based in four Neighbourhood Enterprise Centres and a co-ordinator to support the creation of an Enterprise Board, a new business network in Rotherham. It also runs the Rotherham Ready activity designed to embed an enterprising culture within schools and colleges.


South Yorkshire Technical Assistance 5 £888,462 £888,462 01/04/2008 30/06/2011

South Yorkshire Technical Assistance seeks to improve the implementation, monitoring and control of ERDF in South Yorkshire and will undertake activity to support the delivery of the ERDF programme.

Scarborough Borough Council

Scarborough Enterprise Match 3 £928,134 £966,015 01/04/2011 30/09/2014

Scarborough Enterprise Match aims to create an enterprise culture to unlock the entrepreneurial potential of the borough’s most disadvantaged communities, increasing the number of business start-ups, improving three year survival rates and creating jobs. It delivers intensive pre-pre start support, and support to start-up businesses and social enterprises through a team of community- based enterprise coaches, and provides a programme of new and additional support for students of Yorkshire Coast College. A new Enterprise Centre will be located at the college to provide facilities and services which build the capacity of residents to start their own business.

Scarborough Borough Council

Scarborough Job Match 3 £535,715 £557,603 01/10/2008 30/06/2012

This project developed links between employer demand for labour and workless people from the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Scarborough, by providing workless people with the skills and qualities employers require and supporting employers with a job-brokerage service. This was to address market failure in Scarborough which had lead to high concentrations of worklessness and a difficulty in recruiting for employers.

Science City York

Science City York - Embedded Business Space and Technology Transfer

2 £19,750,975 £19,069,849 01/01/2007 30/06/2013

This project is a nationally significant transformational improvement to the assets and strategic potential of the region’s Science City through a major expansion of York University. It gives substantial opportunities for working with business, and connects with a significant new business strategy from the Central Science Laboratory involving specialist grow-on space for SMEs and research and development collaboration.

Science City York

Science City York Specialist Services for Business Growth and Innovation

2 £1,258,003 £1,550,081 01/01/2007 30/09/2013

This project encouraged business growth in target knowledge-based sectors in and around York and North Yorkshire by providing embedded Specialist Business Mentors. They worked within businesses over a six month period to enable them to overcome barriers to growth, stimulating the growth of target knowledge-based sectors.

Screen Yorkshire Ltd

Yorkshire Content Fund 2 £7,500,000 £7,500,000 01/12/2011 30/09/2014

The Yorkshire Content Fund addresses a gap in the market place by providing targeted co-investment finance to creative content projects, and developing innovative approaches to further investment in the digital and new media sector. Projects, such as film and television programmes, videogames and web applications, will either be initiated by Yorkshire-based companies or by SMEs attracted into or started up in the region.

Second Avenue Resource Centre Limited

South Community Hub 3 £688,635 £546,184 12/01/11 30/06/15

The South Community Hub will support economic development activity in the centre of a deprived area, restoring a redundant building to community use and developing it as a managed workspace to provide high quality, well managed and affordable accommodation and workspace in Nunsthorpe. It will create the conditions for new businesses and social enterprises to prosper in an area that is underperforming and not creating enough jobs to support local people.

Sheffield City Council

Enhanced BiG (LEGI) Programme 3 £4,846,364 £4,846,364 01/04/2008 31/03/2014

Operating across Sheffield to provide support to individuals looking to develop a business idea, the project delivers 1-2-1 support to early stage start up businesses, individuals and existing SMEs who are looking to grow and develop. It also provides a series of specialist support interventions for Sheffield businesses in areas such as Social Enterprise, Procurement and ICT.


Enterprising Neighbourhood Centre - Knutton Road (SOAR Works)

3 £2,776,059 £1,872,083 01/02/2008 30/06/2012

This was part of Sheffield City Council’s Programme to address a lack of suitable premises and services for start-up businesses in economically disadvantaged areas of Sheffield by building four managed workspace centres. The first phase the programme saw construction of Knutton Road, an enterprise centre in the deprived ward of Southey and Owlerton, creating fully serviced business start up units including office space, light industrial units, artists studios, hot desking facilities and meeting space.


Enterprising Neighbourhood Centres - Alison Crescent

3 £1,465,137 £1,377,228 01/10/2008 31/12/2014

This project adds a third phase to the development of the Alison Crescent Business centre; expanding gross area by approximately 1560sqm, expanding lettable space by approx 1115sqm and adding 28 units. It provides office space and light industrial units, hot desks, shared office and virtual office facilities, and meeting rooms and seminar space.


Sheffield Community Network Programme 3 £2,397,108 £2,397,108 01/06/2010 31/03/2015

The Sheffield Community Network delivers a programme of interventions and investment in ICT infrastructure to create a seedbed for community- based growth, enabling the creation of new businesses and jobs.


Sheffield Cultural Infrastructure Programme

4 £4,142,000 £7,090,919 01/04/2008 31/07/2011

The Cultural Infrastructure Programme improved Tudor Square through the redevelopment of the urban environment. This provides an events arena and high quality gateway, intended to be visitor attraction in its own right, to the important complex of cultural facilities consisting of three theatres (Crucible, Lyceum and Library), the City Library, the Millennium and Graves Galleries, and the Winter Garden.


Sheffield Eastern Gateway 4 £1,109,921 £1,899,627 09/02/2009 30/03/2011

The Eastern Gateway lies between the New Retail Quarter, the New Business District and the Moor. This project provides a high quality entrance for workers, shoppers and visitors whether arriving by car, public transport or by foot.


Sheffield Employability Project (sector routeways)

3 £1,782,000 £1,782,000 01/04/2009 30/06/2012

This programme is an employer led, ‘wrap around’ service to support retention of people in work, extending and diversifying the pool of local labour available to businesses by connecting buoyant and growing sectors with economically inactive individuals from target groups. It operates under the brand “Opportunity Sheffield”.


South Yorkshire Sector Growth Enhancement Programme

2 £1,756,572 £945,847 01/04/2011 30/06/2013

The programme used ERDF funding to provide intensive business assists to South Yorkshire based SMEs with high-growth potential in target sectors, in order to support their expansion, create jobs and increase competitiveness. This facilitated the growth and expansion of indigenous businesses by using integrated key account management and tailored marketing activity to secure new inward business investment to the Sheffield City Region.

Sheffield Hallam University

Innovation Futures 1 £1,540,765 £1,480,343 01/01/2009 31/12/2012

This project delivers bespoke, in-depth interdisciplinary interventions to embed Research and Development, promote an innovation culture through long-term collaborations with businesses, and increase business growth and sales. Innovation Futures encourages businesses to transform the way they manage resources by supporting the development and use of new processes and technologies to improve efficiency.

Sheffield Hallam University

Innovation Futures 2 1 £966,868 £876,922 01/01/2013 30/06/2015

This project promotes innovation culture through long-term collaborations with businesses to increase business growth and sales. It utilises and enhances Sheffield Hallam University's expertise in materials and engineering, digital and design, food innovation and biomedical science, and the Sheffield Business School to embed research and development and contribute to the Region-wide business support and innovation ecosystem, providing bespoke, in-depth and interdisciplinary interventions.

Skills for Communities Ltd

2 Hubs 4 Inclusion 3 £1,096,537 £1,118,694 1/10/08 28/02/15

This project will create 855sqm of new, accessible, managed workspace in one of the most deprived areas of Hull. Two disused buildings will be brought back into economic use with BREEAM very good or excellent ratings and energy efficiency features. This will create neighbourhood hubs for local enterprise activities, with business space for new and existing social enterprises and small businesses.

South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive

Access to Opportunities 3 £2,378,995 £3,407,005 01/07/2008 30/06/2013

This project improved bus service in the Dearne Valley to improve access to opportunities for residents of South Yorkshire, where physical assess to employment, training and education was adding to social exclusion. It increased the availability of labor by removing barriers to employment, facilitating environmentally sustainable business growth.


Doncaster Connecting Economic Infrastructure (A630 Smart Route)

4 £943,281 £1,614,420 01/02/2008 28/02/2013

The creation of the A630 Smart Route used bus priority and road safety measures, together with traffic signal technology, to reduce congestion and improve the attractiveness of the gateway approach to the town through modal shift to public transport. This will improve the physical attractiveness of access routes into Doncaster, making it a more attractive environment for inward investment by knowledge-intensive businesses.


Rotherham Central Railway Station Redevelopment and Station Gateway Improvements

4 £2,679,531 £4,976,272 01/04/2008 31/03/2012

The rail station is being completely modernised to address its outdated image, improve facilities, enhance the poor user environment, improve access for passengers (particularly those with disabilities) and address issues (and perceptions) of safety and security. The station improvements aim to provide a visually welcoming and prominent gateway to the town centre and enhance rail users’ experience with a first-class station environment.

South Yorkshire Property Investment Company Limited

South Yorkshire JESSICA Fund 2 £15,201,888 £8,185,637 05/03/2012 31/12/2015

A Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas (JESSICA) fund has been launched in South Yorkshire as part of a phased approach. It will debt finance, property and energy sector development projects via two new Urban Development Funds (UDFs).

Stafforce Personnel Ltd

Food Automation and Innovation 1 £1,446,267 £,1,047,294 01/07/2012 31/03/2015

This project funds a team of food engineering specialists and marketing support to improve the competitiveness and survival rates of food and drink SMEs by raising awareness of the benefits of automation, robotics and innovation. It offers a private matched Innovation Support Grant Scheme via a structured ‘process and innovation technology plan’, and provides opportunities to share knowledge and research and development through links to the regional engineering sector and Higher Education Institutes.

Technology Strategy Board

Large Company (Industrial) Research and Development Award Scheme - Second Round (IRD2)

1 £175,318 £525,947 01/01/2009 30/03/2012

This project provided specific, targeted financial support to large companies in the region wishing to accelerate research, development and innovation activities but who could not bear the full risk associated with such work themselves. This support would create and safe guard jobs, generate sales and establish key collaborations between the regional supply chain and knowledge base.

Technology Strategy Board

Grants for Research and Development 1 £975,305 £1,433,191 31/10/2009 30/09/2011

This national scheme used ERDF funding to help existing SMEs and individuals starting businesses to research and develop technologically innovative products and processes. Providing grant support to reduce the overall cost of the work reduced the risk associated with investing in new technology, encouraging SMEs to develop financially lucrative innovations.

Unity House (Wakefield) Limited

Unity Hall 2 £1,180,580 £1,228,816 07/02/12 30/06/15

The Unity Hall project will establish a Creative and Digital business centre in the heart of Wakefield by refurbishing 2042sqm of space to house 50 businesses. This project is lead by Unity House (Wakefield) Ltd with the project management assistance of Shine (Harehills Community Interest Company). Leeds Met University’s Northern Technology Institute are to be a tenant and development partner in the building, establishing a digital co-working space similar to Old Broadcasting House in Leeds.

Unity Property Services Limited (trading as Unity Enterprise)

Chapeltown Enterprise Network 3 £814,292 £814,292 01/04/13 30/06/15

The project will create 3 business units the Unity Business Centre, upgrade 60 more and upgrade 19 business units in the Chapeltown Enterprise Centre to make them more space- and energy-efficient. It will work with entrepreneurs, local businesses, social enterprises and other organisations to offer holistic advice and support services, with a Social Enterprise Development Officer and a Network Business Advisor available to travel around the Chapeltown network.

University of Bradford

University of Bradford Sustainability Centre 1 £2,776,510 £3,680,474 01/01/2008 31/12/2014

The Centre will be the focal point for sustainable development-related research and knowledge transfer expertise working with new and existing businesses. With interdisciplinary expertise in social sciences, environment, health, management, informatics, and design & engineering, the project will focus initially on supporting businesses in sustainable construction, resource efficiency (particularly water), and behaviour and cultural change.

University of Bradford

Yorkshire Innovation Fund 1 £4,146,586 £2,332,458 01/07/12 31/07/15

The fund aims to stimulate economic growth through multiple partnerships between businesses and universities. It will enable regional companies to work with universities to increase their competitiveness and create growth in employment through innovation. By providing vouchers, grants and investments it will create a platform capable of supporting companies operating at all levels of the innovation spectrum.

University of Huddersfield

Graduate Entrepreneurship Project

2 £1,231,843 £1,237,530 01/01/2011 31/10/2014

The Graduate Entrepreneurship Project delivers a broad framework of activity both locally, through individual HEI institutions, and regionally, to engage students and recent graduates within 5-7 years of graduation (depending on local need) to encourage and support business start up and growth.

University of Huddersfield

Huddersfield Enterprise & Innovation Centre

1 £6,192,408 £4,128,271 01/04/2010 31/03/2014

The EIC will be created by refurbishing and extending an existing University building to create an exciting business-facing centre for collaboration and research. It will work with the University to promote knowledge transfer and entrepreneurial culture in both the Higher Education and business community, creating an innovation community that will facilitate dynamic interactions to promote supply chain and demand-led innovation.

University of Leeds

Institute for Product and Process Development

1 £4,379,555 £3,231,862 01/01/2009 31/12/2013

This project will combine and exploit the strengths in science and engineering at the Universities of Leeds and Huddersfield. It provides unique infrastructure to make a significant step change in the commercialisation of activities in process research and development to provide more sustainable new products. It enhances the knowledge transfer agenda by working intimately with industry to develop useable, competitive and valuable technology, and promote the sustainability agenda through technology designed for cleaner processes.

University of Leeds

Utilising Synergies in Nano-Manufacturing to Accelerate Innovation (MNT2)

1 £2,511,834 £2,086,246 01/05/2009 31/12/2014

This project builds on the nanomanufacturing technology cluster in the region and established best practice technology transfer expertise to promote high technology innovation and develop a regional collaborative network of universities and companies. Activity will be a combination of marketing, networking with business, project resourcing and delivery, and collaborative project building to deliver new processes and products and encourage the commercialisation of new technologies.

University of Sheffield

Advanced Manufacturing Institute – Design Prototyping and Testing Centre (AMI-DPTC)

1 £4,830,000 £4,830,000 01/10/2011 30/09/2014

The AMI-DPTC project will extend the original AMRC building to build and equip a UK Centre of Excellence in Industrial Design, Prototyping and Structural Testing, building on South Yorkshire’s industrial base. This is supported by some of the world’s leading manufacturers, but regional SMEs will benefit most from having an internationally recognised DPTC at their disposal, able to work with them on projects ranging from basic design, through to preproduction prototype and testing. This project will further enhance the region’s growing reputation as an international centre of manufacturing excellence. It will create jobs and bring work to the region far beyond the investment period.


Advanced Manufacturing Institute – Training Centre

1 £5,030,860 £12,899,640 01/10/2011 31/08/2014

This capital build project provides a state-of-the-art 5,464sqm training and networking centre for regional companies to improve their competitiveness by ensuring their employees are trained to the highest possible standard. It will offer training at all levels and create up to 250 new apprenticeships a year in manufacturing companies, providing the skilled workforce necessary for regional companies to compete in high value manufacturing supply chains. Courses will be part-time so that knowledge gained is of immediate benefit to the companies concerned.


Advanced Materials Centre at the AMP 1 £1,572,387 £1,568,409 01/03/2011 30/06/2015

The Advanced Materials Centre provides a range of industrially focused strategic services to regional companies, delivered by NAMTEC. These services will comprise of the delivery of a Manufacturing Design and Modelling support programme and the provision of an Advanced Manufacturing Support Programme to deliver sustainable growth and long-term prosperity to the Advanced Engineering and Materials sector in Yorkshire and Humberside.


Mercury, University of Sheffield 1 £5,144,291 £4,594,281 01/04/2010 31/12/2013

Mercury’s speciality is powder-based manufacturing; the production, enhancement and repair of manufactured items using a material feedstock, including advance metal or ceramic, in a powder form rather than conventional forms of feedstock such as billets or sheets. Project Mercury works with companies to develop and demonstrate this innovative processes on their products and transfer the technology to their companies.


NAMRC/KTC - Capital 1 £15,177,247 £15,177,247 01/01/2010 30/09/2013

This is a capital project, which will create two new buildings at the University of Sheffield on the Advanced Manufacturing Park. The two buildings will be a Nuclear Advanced Research and Development Centre (NAMRC) and a Knowledge Transfer Centre (KTC) that will enable world leading research to be carried out.


University of Sheffield AMRC Hub Revenue 1 £3,855,940 £3,855,940 01/06/2010 28/12/2014

Part of the AMRC Hub Programme, this project provides revenue support to establish an Energy AMRC to carry out research and development and knowledge transfer. Developing a new supply chains and improving manufacturing process will enable regional companies to compete in the UK and around the world. This will have a transformational effect on the region’s manufacturing businesses for the foreseeable future.


University of Sheffield Factory of the Future Extension - Capital

1 £2,403,478 £2,403,478 01/04/2010 31/03/2013

University of Sheffield Factory of the Future Extension is a capital project, which will build an extension on the existing Factory of the Future building located on the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham. This project will provide facilities that will increase Research and Development and knowledge transfer activities with regional companies and give them access to world-leading research.

The University of York WasteValor Project 1 £1,801,913 £1,013,576 01/11/2011 30/06/2015

The WASTEVALOR project will create a bespoke Industrial Engagement Facility for waste valorisation, situated at the University of York. It consists of purpose-built state of the art laboratories which will enable pre-start-ups, start-ups and SMEs to use specialist technologies, introduce innovative production methods and promote Research and Development.

Venture Business Park Ltd

Haltemprice Managed Business Centre

2 £1,178,913 £1,536,775 01/08/2010 31/12/2013

This project is re-using a redundant building close to the Humber Bridge, to create the Haltemprice Managed Business Centre. The building is being completely refurbished to accommodate up to 25 small or medium-sized enterprises in 1605sqm of high quality business space.

Wakefield City Council

Wakefield Business Support 3 £755,715 £755,719 01/01/13 30/06/15

This project aims to reduce the gap that exists in the Wakefield District through a series of interventions promoting enterprise and entrepreneurial activity. It assists new businesses, attracts businesses and new activities to the area and supports high growth companies with an emphasis on anchoring growth and change in the disadvantaged areas of the district.

Warmsale Limited

Marfleet Environmental Industries Park

2 £4,743,339 £8,651,687 01/03/2010 31/03/2014

The Marfleet Environmental Technology park is being developed on the site of the former Humbrol manufacturing complex in Hull. The site originally comprised some 11,812sqm of factory space on 3.82ha. The project is refurbishing the central high bay warehouse, reinstating new services and infrastructure and building additional space to provide around 150,000 square feet in total.

Winning Pitch Limited

Growth Accelerator ERDF Extension: Yorkshire & Humber RoR

2 £2,112,977 £2,582,525 01/06/13 30/06/15

The Growth Accelerator supports companies to realise their high growth potential in order to create a prosperous future and viable knowledge economy in the region. This is done through targeted client identification and assessment, growth preparedness, business performance coaching, and the creation of local sustainable growth networks, supporting 400 businesses and creating or safeguarding 1,400 jobs.

Winning Pitch Limited

Growth Accelerator ERDF Extension: Yorkshire & Humber South Yorkshire

2 £1,491,098 £975,000 01/06/13 30/06/15

The South Yorkshire Growth Accelerator supports companies to realise their high growth potential in order to create a prosperous future and viable knowledge economy in the region. This is done through targeted client identification and assessment, growth preparedness, business performance coaching, and the creation of local sustainable growth networks, supporting 150 businesses and creating or safeguarding 600 jobs in South Yorkshire.

Wykeland Properties Ltd Humber Bridgehead 2 £4,055,425 £9,439,886 09/05/11 30/04/15

The project involves the site servicing of a 21.6 hectare development to provide a prestige business park for businesses providing professional, technical and scientific services to the renewable and low carbon energy sectors. The University of Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire Council will work in partnership to provide promotion, marketing and Research and Development services which will add value to the site.

YFM Business Development Ltd

Yorkshire and Humber Manufacturing Advisory Service

2 £1,621,317 £1,621,319 01/07/2009 31/12/2011

This project provides practical hands-on assistance to help manufacturers adopt new methods, processes and technologies that boost productivity and improve competitiveness.

Yorkshire Forward

Innovation (Hubs) Networks 1 £1,191,940 £1,191,940 07/10/2008 07/10/2011

This project established three Innovation Networks in Advanced Engineering and Materials, Formulation and Healthcare Technologies. These are enduring innovation communities bringing together companies with the potential to grow through innovation and leading expertise from the regional knowledge base. They encourage managed business-led organisations designed to stimulate innovation through collaboration in areas of mutual technical and commercial interest, and also by commissioning studies and disseminating market intelligence, innovation best practice and leading edge knowledge.

Yorkshire Forward Innovation Vouchers 1 £1,004,941 £1,004,941 01/10/2009 30/06/2011

Building on the Innovation Voucher pilot scheme (launched January 2009), this project delivered an easy to access innovation voucher scheme providing funding for SMEs to undertake innovation projects with their choice of knowledge base supplier. This would encourage them to prioritise investment in research and development and innovation activity which is essential for them to remain competitive and to grow the regional economy.

Yorkshire Forward

Technical Assistance for ERDF Programme Management

5 £341,903 £341,903 01/04/2008 30/06/2015

Technical Assistance allows funding for activities that increase the quality and achievements of the Yorkshire and Humber ERDF Programme. It provides specific support for ERDF projects, addressing issues such as appraisal, N+2 targets, publicity and marketing, evaluation, development and implementation of cross cutting themes and overall Programme management.

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