Local Employment Partnerships

Benefit	• This is a recruitment solution you can’t afford to ignore - you get access to candidates that are ready for work, with a minimum of hassle, risk and cost. A quality service that benefits your business. • Show your local community that you want it to thrive, that you have faith in the local workforce and that you want to provide opportunities for them. • It is more and more common as part of procurement and tender exercises for businesses to be asked about their corporate and social responsibility policies.  Being a LEP employer would help you with this and mark you out as a business that cares about and is investing in people and local communities.
Experience	• Our experienced account managers will work with you to make sure that we really understand your business and your recruitment requirements. • We will do all we can to find you the right candidates with the right attitude, when you need them, by giving you access to local people you might not have considered. This links to extensive work to help people return to work such as those who have health conditions or disabilities through the Pathways to Work programme. • LEPs are not a one-hit wonder – we want this to be a proper give and take partnership that can keep on benefiting everyone for a long time to come.
Action	• To explore the ways that Local Employment Partnerships could work for your business and make a difference to your community, please contact Jobcentre Plus on lep.enq@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk or through your Account Manager.
Speakers	Carole Chamberlain & Angela Battye from Jobcentre Plus

Aims: this event will ….

• Explain the increasing importance of the Town Centre to growing the economy of Barnsley
• Tell Barnsley business people what is happening in Barnsley Town Centre
• Outline how businesses can feed into these developments and plans for managing the Town Centre over next 3 to 4 years
• Bring together current business networks and provide the opportunity for questions and issues to be raised with key actors

Who Should Attend: managers / proprietors / partners of Barnsley Town Centre businesses

Format: 1hr 15 mins event with 3 speakers and an expert panel for comments, chaired by Chris Mc C arthy, Executive Director of Development for BMBC:

• Welcome and aims of event – Chris Mcarthy
• The Importance of the town centre to Barnsley's economy - John Lewis Chief Executive of  Rotherham and Barnsley Chamber of Commerce & Industry 
• Plans for Barnsley town centre – Carol Cooper Smith  Director of Barnsley Development Agency 
• What you will see over next three years – Ian  Moorecroft 1249  

Panel of 5: – Chris Mcarthy (chair); Ian Moorcroft 1249; Nancy Mitchell from Boots ; Jane Townsend from the Digital Media Centre

 

The Business Networking Lunch was a great success throughout last year and this event will be no exception.

We will be choosing from our delegate list one person to speak for around ten minutes and then a further three to speak for five minutes each.

We will inform you a week in advance those of you who have been chosen to speak.

Bring plenty of business cards, as this event is a proven success for making new contacts.

Please book early to avoid disappointment, as places are limited to two per company

To book please call Niky on 01709 386 212 or email nbrazier@barnsleychamber.co.uk