Stoke Staffs LEP

Made Smarter launches £1.9 million digital scheme to help West Midlands SMEs

Made Smarter has launched a £1.9 million digital adoption push to drive growth in West Midlands manufacturing and engineering SMEs and help them boost productivity. Digital experts will provide advice to businesses on how to switch to advanced and automated technologies as well as working to improve employees’ overall digital skills. The Coventry and Warwickshire […]

100 businesses sign up to digital efficiency scheme

A programme which helps West Midlands manufacturing and engineering firms to adopt cutting-edge digital technology has seen 100 companies sign up in just a few months. Made Smarter reached the milestone after launching in the West Midlands in June, and is encouraging even more companies to sign up after this early success. The £1.9 million […]

Catalysts for future growth

As LEPs gear up for the conclusions of the Levelling-Up White Paper and Comprehensive Spending Review, LEP business leaders have identified five core future values that must be taken forward if local communities and businesses are to genuinely feel the benefits of levelling up and local growth. As business-led partnerships, LEPs are in ongoing discussions […]

Construction starts at Keele University’s newest Innovation Centre

Construction is now underway on the latest Innovation Centre on Keele University’s Science and Innovation Park, which is set to open in 2022 and is part funded by the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership from their allocation from the government’s Getting Building Fund. Innovation Centre 7 (IC7) will be the home of Keele’s new […]

Enterprise advisers sought to make a difference to school and college students

The Careers and Enterprise Company has a national campaign for the recruitment of Enterprise Advisers who can make a difference to the learning of school and college students. Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire now has 74 enterprise advisers who are volunteers from business offering strategic support to schools and colleges.  Advisors are from a range of the […]

National recognition for our universities

Keele University and Staffordshire Universities have been recognised as the country’s best in a top national sector awards ceremony. Both with shortlisted in the top six place in yesterday’s Times Higher Education Awards, University of the Year category. LEP chairman Alun Rogers said having both of the area’s universities ranked as the best in the […]

Staffordshire University breaks ground on £5.8 million Centre for Health Innovation

Located in Stafford, the facility features cutting-edge clinical simulation suites which will be used to upskill existing healthcare professionals and train future generations of NHS employees. Staffordshire University has broken ground on its brand-new Centre for Health Innovation, which is located at the institution’s Centre of Excellence in Healthcare Education, Stafford. Professor Liz Barnes CBE […]

Business leaders sought to join Local Enterprise Partnership Board

Business leaders from Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire are being sought to help to lead the area’s local enterprise partnership and help drive its economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and future growth. The Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire LEP (SSLEP) is recruiting two new directors to its company board which sets the strategy and investment activity to grow […]

Five-star Ceramic Valley Enterprise Zone tops two million square feet of development

Civic and business leaders are celebrating the fifth anniversary of an enterprise zone that has transformed redundant brownfield land, with two million square feet of high-quality industrial development. The Ceramic Valley Enterprise Zone (CVEZ) comprises 140 hectares of land over six sites in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme, including the former Shelton Bar steelworks site in the […]