About

The Humber LEP is a partnership of 16 local businesses, Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce, Humber Chemical Focus, the four Humber councils and the University of Hull. The intensity of the excellent support pledged from the private sector - gathered in less than a week after the LEP’s first Board meeting in June - is thought to be amongst the highest in the country.

Since being approved by the Government in June, the LEP successfully bid for one of the largest Enterprise Zones in the country, which will create around 5,000 jobs.  It has also won £177,000 of Government funding towards its activities after local organisations pledged to contribute £57,500 of their own funds.

One of the LEP’s major pieces of work will be on how to market the Humber as a location for business. This will include developing the “Humber offer” for renewables, aiming to attract more top tier manufacturing companies in the renewable energy sector to invest, as well as helping local companies do more business outside the area and overseas.

It will also look at how to help more people access the thousands of jobs which would be created under these plans for making the area a hub for renewable energy.