Private Finance and Economic Development: City and Regional Investment – July 2003

This book presents the main messages of an OECD LEED Programme, Forum of Cities and Regions conference looking at how to leverage private finance for local economic development activities in OECD cities and regions. The programme is a collaboration with the London Development Agency, GLE and the City of London Corporation. The book contains a chapter from David Walburn, the then Chief Executive of GLE on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Constraints and Possibilities in London.

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GLE Green Paper Conference – June 2003

GLE facilitated the development of a London response to the EU Entrepreneurship Green Paper through consultation with all sectors in London. GLE organised, with Business Link for London and the London Development Agency, a consultative seminar in March to develop responses to the Commission’s ten questions.

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Global Grants Conference Report - March 2003

Small community organisations can find European funding difficult to access: administrative and management arrangements can be demanding and difficult for small groups to deal with – yet these are often the organisations best placed to support difficult to reach and excluded people.

This reports on GLE’s Global Grants conference, organised to allow intermediary bodies, projects who have gained global grants funding, government offices, local authorities and the voluntary sector to look at the ways in which these programmes have developed, at their successes and weaknesses and at progress so far

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