September 2018

WARWICKSHIRE MEANS BUSINESS

Welcome from Cllr Izzi Seccombe, leader of Warwickshire County Council

Hello and welcome to the September edition of Warwickshire Means Business.

I hope you all had a great summer and managed to take some time out from your busy schedules for a well-earned rest.

In this issue we chat to Jagdish Soor, a man whom many of you may know and from whose expertise you may have already benefited. A successful entrepreneur in his own right, Jagdish joined Warwickshire County Council's Economy & Skills team as a business support advisor in 2017 and his work for us since has helped lever around £2.6 million private match funding back into the local economy. In our lead feature he explains his role with the council team and his work with businesses in Warwickshire.

It continues to be full steam ahead for Leamington’s thriving gaming industry as 'Silicon Spa’ prepares to host the inaugural Interactive Futures gaming festival early next year. The event will bring together the creative and games communities to share the latest industry developments, as well as insights into training opportunities and even some new releases - and it is great, and entirely appropriate, that it will take place in Warwickshire.

With Coventry and Warwickshire also at the heart of the UK’s engineering industry, it is essential that the region continues to offer first-class training to the next generation of engineers. Our Skills for Employment programme, along with our partner organisations, is constantly working towards this objective. It is exciting to see a brand new Degree Apprenticeship Centre, funded by the government through the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership, to be constructed at the University of Warwick.

Meanwhile, our own Economy & Skills team has welcomed new recruit Emily Newport. An economics graduate, Emily has already got stuck in having written the latest Quarterly Labour Market Bulletin which contains much invaluable information for employers across the county.

The latest economic data for Warwickshire, contained in that Quarterly Labour Market Bulletin, show that the county’s economy remains strong. Here at Warwickshire County Council we remain fully committed to working with businesses to ensure that economy remains vibrant and continues to grow.

The Coventry & Warwickshire Business Support Programme remains at your disposal - and it was very pleasing to see that 95% of businesses who responded to our recent survey said they would recommend the programme to other organisations. Please do give us a call so see how we can help you.

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