Business Growth & Inward Investment Committee
Responsibilities
To drive new thinking around support necessary for scale-up, business support, trade and business resilience across Dorset through:
- Prioritising and informing business growth initiatives
- Making recommendations about the allocation of resources and business growth funding proposals
- Ensuring activities are linked effectively with the other strategic programmes.
The Committee Terms of Reference can be found here: Business Growth & Inward Investment Committee Terms of Reference.
Membership
Members of the Committee are as follows:
- John Sutcliffe (Chair), Dorset LEP Board Member
- Adrian Trevett, BCP Council
- Arabella Lewis-Smith, Dorset LEP Board Member
- Cllr John Beesley, Dorset LEP Board Member
- Dan Cox, Arts University Bournemouth
- David Walsh, Dorset Council
- Geoff Sagar, Bofa International
- Glyn Hughes, BAE Systems
- Ian Girling, Dorset LEP Board Member
- Ian Jones, Bournemouth University
- Jayne Codling, Business West
- Julian Grazebrook, MAT Foundry Group Ltd
- Mike Gould, FJ & JM Gould
- Nick Gaines, Dorset LEP Board Member
- Rob Emony, Department for International Trade (DIT)
- Sophia Story, Dorset LEP Board Member
Meeting dates, papers and minutes
Meetings take place at least once a quarter, confirmed upcoming dates are:
- 27 May 2021
- 26 August 2021
- 09 December 2021
- 03 March 2022
Meeting documents can be found below: