Agenda

Apologies from Mayor Tim Bowles, Mike Jackson

Welcome new members – Zoe Metcalfe, Joanne Rumley, Natasha Swinscoe, Heather Cooper, Margot Day and Richard Bonner

To approve minutes from the previous meeting.

All Board members have a responsibility to treat all proposals/projects equally and impartially and must therefore declare whether they or their organisation has either a direct or indirect interest in any of the projects to be considered by the Board.

Update on the Local Industrial Strategy implementation plan, including specific progress reports on the following projects:

§  Innovation:

§  Global Centre for Innovation Excellence

§  West of England Network of Living Labs

§  Productivity challenge:

§  Be the Business

§  Inclusion:

§  Employment and skills implementation plan and Skills and Advisory Panel proposal

Dashboard and progress report

·         Cultural Strategy (Dick Penny/Lynda Bird)