Come along for a friendly chat at one of the GM Business Growth Hub #HereForBusiness drop-in clinics being held across Greater Manchester next week. Find out what support is available to help firms navigate the increasing cost of doing business 👇 orlo.uk/y8Hxj #UKSPF

📢 The next round of #UKSPF Dundee opens on 9 May

➡️ Full guidance on eligible projects will be published over the coming days

➡️ In the meantime please visit our webpage to see the full list of interventions which will be funded this round

dundeecity.gov.uk/service-area/c…

#UKSPF

In over 15 years advising on public funded projects, I’ve never heard of a company demanding a warranty like this.

BP and Equinor seem to be reacting to specific concerns raised in newspapers, but perhaps this will become a standard clause in future?

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The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation is a new law that’s going to have a significant impact upon the way international businesses trade.

We use the example of football clubs in this article, but there’s plenty of other markets which will be affected.

#ForeignSubsidies #SportsLaw

A new EU law might change the course of football next season…

The scope of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation is so wide that it might be the most important law you’ve never heard of before

Our article on this is at tinyurl.com/DWFEUFSReg

#Football #PSG #NUFC #MCFC

The Government has published a Subsidy Control scheme for successful Levelling Up Fund bids to use, subject to satisfying certain conditions.

In this article Jonathan Branton and I explain what the scheme means in practice.

dwfgroup.com/en/news-and-in… #SubsidyControl #PublicSectorLaw

State aid law was jettisoned after #Brexit , but are the UK’s new #SubsidyControl laws able to address the impact of soaring #energycosts ?

Expect fireworks at the #NRGConference - lots of well connected speakers coming together to make the case for Levelling Up to be less about rhetoric, more about meaningful investment.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund launches today - here’s a quick 🧵 on the main issues. 

1) the Conservative Party manifesto committed to setting up the UKSPF to replace EU funds lost to Brexit and that it would as “a minimum match the size of those funds in each nation”.

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UK Shared Prosperity Fund UKSPF Heads of Terms

Alexander Rose UK Shared Prosperity Fund

4. Consulting on, and released details of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, a Conservative Party Manifesto pledge. A well designed UKSPF could unlock opportunities for local areas that have been overlooked for decades.

David Henig 🇺🇦 Of course, there’s always the ‘Shared Prosperity Fund’ which Gove promised would fully compensate for the loss of subsidies. The ‘prosperity’ came from 40 years economic success in the EU. Covid clearly has killed it. However, the nothing that’s left will be ‘shared’.

The chancellor can support the creation of new high skilled jobs today! Mayors in the north of England have expressed the need for any UK shared prosperity fund to be devolved. This money is better spent by people on the ground here than by people in London #SummerStatement

.Invest NI calls for a bigger pool of Research & Development funding for NI – highlights that some funding coming to end at end of this year and the need for the Shared Prosperity Fund to replace R&D funding

State aid law Leaza McSorley EU Regio Interreg Simon Clarke MP letter to Welsh Affairs Conmittee confirms #UKSPF will have at least the same amounts as ESIF UK Programmes 2021-2027. As you know the anoraks reading the scarce runes on #UKSPF point to announcements &start sooner than expected. Summer may not be a silly season.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund #UKSPF COVID-19 Survey 2020 is now live.

With no consultation planned this is the opportunity for the employment support sector to input and influence future funding.

Take the survey ➡️ surveymonkey.co.uk/r/?sm=X4TfjkTp… ERSA

The Employment Support Scotland Network meeting is on 15 July from 1-3pm, here the latest on the summer economic statement, UKSPF, network of networks and more, see the agenda and register at ersa.eventbrite.com
#Noneleftbehind #youthemploymentgroup