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May Newsletter

Sustainable Eastside ? Project Extension Funding Agreed

Sustainable Eastside, a project funded by ebns, has successfully encouraged developers moving into Eastside to use ?green building technology? to enhance the environment and preserve resources. This involves encouraging environmental considerations such as: use of recycled and renewable materials and protection of existing trees in the area. To continue its success, the project has received an extension of funding.

The extension of £24, 000 will be used to fund an advisor to project manage the implementation of a large capital scheme for installation of demonstration green roofs for biodiversity, water management and energy benefit research in Eastside.

This will continue to raise awareness of the environmental benefits and business opportunities arising from the inclusion of environmental technologies in the built environment.

The request for an extension of funding for a Sustainable Eastside project has been agreed by Advantage West Midlands. This extension of funding will extend the Sustainable Eastside approach to the regeneration of the Zone with benefits to the whole region in terms of capacity building and publication of sustainability materials.

Environmental Business Opportunities Event

ebns is working with Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry and tic, to raise the profile of the Environmental Business sector in Birmingham and North Solihull.

For a chance to meet trading partners today who can help your business have a better tomorrow, come to Technology
Innovation Centre at Millennium Point on Wednesday 7^th June at 9.30 ? 17.00.

This event will help your business to find new contacts, who may also be able to help you address increasingly urgent environmental issues.

• Do you want to grow your business?
• Do you want to cut costs and improve efficiency?
• Do you need a secure energy supply?

Please contact Iwona Tempowski at i.tempowski@birminghamchamber.org.uk or on 0121 503 8685 if you are interested in attending or have any queries.

Strategic Investment Plans Consultation Events in June and July

We will be holding two consultation events in June and July, each event will take an identical format. They will be held at Matthew Boulton College from 10.00 ? 15.00 including lunch, on Tuesday 20^th June and Tuesday 4^th July. The events will take the form of a series of workshops on:

·         Employment Land

·         Sector Skills Growth

·         Local Employment Centres

To find out more, or to book a place, please e-mail catherine.field@ebns.co.uk or phone her on 0121 503 8688

Summary of information from Job Link Workshops

These workshops were received with enthusiasm on the day. Those who attended found it extremely useful to talk to beneficiaries of these programmes and hear about their success stories. Each workshop was facilitated by a development manager from ebns. Below is a brief summary of the discussions which took place in each session.

Board Approved ebns Zone Implementation Plan 2006-09

This is the second implementation plan the Board has produced for ebns, and is available on our website at www.ebns.co.uk/1/news.aspx.

The plan sets out how we will move forward in achieving our vision over the next three years and knowing we have the support and commitment of our partners gives us confidence that we will succeed.

Our overall goals and strategic objectives remain the same but achieving these goals will now be focused though a series of strategic investment plans. These plans, although in their early stages, will be crucial to our success and will be the basis upon which we commission activity and achieve transformational change.

Over the next 12 months we intend to move to a position where all our funded activities are focused through these plans and in turn ensure that our strategic objectives, outcomes and goals are achieved.

In this plan we consider ongoing key public sector policy changes/ developments which will have a local impact on the economic regeneration agenda. These are:

• Local Area Agreements
• Local Enterprise Growth Initiative
• Fair Cities
• Local Improvement Finance Trust (L.I.F.T co)
• The Olympics 2012
• Decisions on future European Structural Funds.

Siobhán Roberts Leaves ebns to join RAF

Siobhán has left her role as Programme and Administration Support Officer to pursue a career in the Royal Air Force. We would like to take this opportunity to thank her for all her hard work and wish her the very best of luck in her career with the RAF.

Thank you for your time.

ebns
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