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    Kent & Medway Economic Partnership (KMEP)

    This page lists the meetings for Kent & Medway Economic Partnership (KMEP).

    Information about Kent & Medway Economic Partnership (KMEP)

    The Kent and Medway Economic Partnership (KMEP) is the economic partnership for Kent and Medway which aims to drive forward economic growth and prosperity throughout the region.

    It was set up in 2013 to act as the Kent and Medway ‘building block’ of the South East Local Enterprise Partnership.

    The KMEP is governed by a Partnership Board made up of representatives from businesses, education and local authorities.

    The Kent and Medway Economic Partnership Board is chaired by the private sector and is made up of twenty one members, eleven business representatives, eight local authority leaders and one representative from higher and further education. The board has sought to ensure that there is a balanced representation of businesses and local authorities, reflecting Kent and Medway’s geography and the diversity of its business base.

    The role of the KMEP can be summarised as being to:-

           Approve, drive forward and monitor a strategic economic plan for Kent and Medway;

           Consider strategic economic investment priorities through funds such as the Single Local Growth Fund,    European structural and investment funds and other public funding sources that may become available;

           Determine and monitor the use of all funding devolved from the South East Local Enterprise Partnership to    Kent and Medway;

           Act as the commissioning body for projects and programmes in Kent and Medway funded through the Single    Local Growth Fund and the European Structural and Investment Funds;

           Consider and develop responses to new economic opportunities and challenges in Kent and Medway;

           Ensure a strong voice for Kent and Medway business and government at national and regional level, including    through the South East LEP.

    The Kent and Medway Economic Partnership will be responsible for the delivery of the objectives set out in Kent and Medway’s Growth Plan ‘Unlocking the Potential: Going for Growth’.  The Growth Deal sets out the actions that businesses and local authorities in Kent and Medway, together with the South East LEP and central Government will take to drive forward delivery. It sets out the case for Local Growth Fund investment in Kent and Medway as part of an intelligent funding package, alongside the new European structural fund programme, existing Regional Growth Funds, developer contributions and local authority funds. The Growth Plan, as part of the Strategic Economic Plan, was submitted to the government at the end of March 2014. It is anticipated that the government will announce its decisions about funding in July 2014.

    Membership

    Local Authority Leaders

    Gary Cooke
    Leader Kent County Council
    Rodney Chambers
    Leader Medway Council
    Jeremy Kite
    Dartford & Gravesham (alternate John Burden)
    Paul Watkins
    Dover & Thanet (alternate Clive Hart)
    David Jukes
    Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells (alternate Christopher Garland)
    Peter Fleming
    Sevenoaks, Tonbridge & Malling (alternate Nicolas Heslop)
    David Monk
    Shepway & Ashford (alternate Gerry Clarkson)
    Andrew Bowles
    Swale & Canterbury (alternate John Gilbey)

    Business

    Geoff Miles CHAIRMAN
    Managing Director, Maidstone Studios
    Vince Lucas
    Managing Director, V A Consultancy Ltd
    Graham Brown
    Chairman, Denne & Director, Bouygues
    Douglas Horner
    Director, Trenport Investments Ltd & Member- CBI South East Council
    Jo James
    Chief Executive, Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce (KICC)
    Jon Regan
    Director & Chairman, Hugh Lowe Farms Ltd & Weald Granary Ltd
    Paul Winter
    UK Managing Director, Wire Belt Company Ltd
    Miranda Chapman
    Director, Pillory Barn Design Ltd
    Eliot Forster
    Chief Executive Officer, Creabilis SA
    Roger House
    Chief Executive Officer, The Centre for Micro Business & Regional Chairman Federation of Small Businesses Kent & Medway
    Andrew Metcalf
    Director, Maxim PR
    Nick Sandford
    Chairman, Kent Country Land & Business Association
    Paul Gardner
    Managing Director, Component Force

    Higher Education (HE)

    Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow
    Vice Chancellor, University of Kent

    Further Education (FE)

    Graham Razey
    Principal, East Kent College

     

    Visit the KMEP website http://kmep.org.uk/home