Buckinghamshire Growth Board
The Buckinghamshire Growth Board is a partnership of public and private sectors.
It's a forum for:
- dealing with inequality
- supporting regeneration
- supporting economic and skills growth
- effective collaborative thinking
The Growth Board is also the strategic board for Buckinghamshire that sets the vision and overall strategy.
It makes sure that Buckinghamshire’s plans are joined up and clearly understood across areas such as:
- spatial
- economic
- environmental
- climate change
- health and wellbeing
- connectivity
- infrastructure
The board also helps move forward major place‑based projects across Buckinghamshire and acts as a single, clear point of contact with the UK Government on local and regional issues and opportunities.
Its membership includes:
- Buckinghamshire Council
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Buckinghamshire Business First
- UK Government Representatives
- chairs of sub-boards
Supporting this board are a series of themed sub-boards:
Aims to provide an economic function to support the Growth Board and will establish and manage a Pooled Investment Fund.
(The board is currently called the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Board).
The Opportunity Bucks Board aims to drive the development and actions of a Levelling Up programme of work for Buckinghamshire.
Supports place-based economic growth through the development of a more effective post-16 technical education, skills and employability system to meet current and future workforce needs.
Supports place-based economic growth through targeted regeneration in Buckinghamshire’s town and villages.
Buckinghamshire's strategic vision for 2050
The board has played an important role in the development of the:
- Buckinghamshire’s Strategic Vision for 2050
- Buckinghamshire Recovery and Growth Proposition
- Bucks UK Shared Prosperity Fund
A County Deal for Buckinghamshire
Central Government’s Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill introduced new devolution opportunities for local areas.
We are looking for a County Deal for Buckinghamshire to:
- speed up recovery
- provide investment for important projects
- improve the delivery of important services
Our proposal seeks a devolved skills budget for Buckinghamshire, along with local delivery of national employment programmes to cater for communities and encourage growth across the county.
Recovery and growth proposal
The Buckinghamshire Growth Board has created a recovery and growth proposal for Central Government.
This shows how the work of the Buckinghamshire Growth Board is beneficial to the county and we can build on this and achieve much more together.