Strategic growth, investment and regeneration

The Buckinghamshire Growth Board is a partnership of key public and private sectors, providing the forum for:

• addressing inequality
• supporting regeneration
• supporting economic and skills growth
• effective collaborative thinking

The Board also leads on developing local partnership strategies, including our Strategic Vision and leads work on our County Deal proposals.

View more about the Buckinghamshire Growth Board.

The Buckinghamshire Growth Board has played an important role in overseeing the formulation of:

• Buckinghamshire’s Strategic Vision for 2050
• the development of the Buckinghamshire Recovery and Growth Proposition
• steering the Buckinghamshire UK Shared Prosperity Fund

View more about our strategies.

The Buckinghamshire Economic Intelligence Observatory provides the latest economic data and insight for Buckinghamshire.

View the Buckinghamshire Economic Intelligence Observatory website.

The Buckinghamshire Enterprise Zone offers a variety of site and building options for businesses wanting to take advantage of Buckinghamshire’s strategic location at the heart of the UK’s innovation axis.

View the Buckinghamshire Enterprise Zone website.

We are focussed on our commitment to regenerate:

• Aylesbury
• Chesham
• High Wycombe
• our other town centres

View the regeneration plans for our towns and places.

We are working with partners and providers to improve digital connectivity, including the availability of 5G and broadband.

View our plans for digital connectivity.

Our Skills and Employment Strategy explains how we are planning to increase access to, and provision of, in-demand skills and qualifications.

View our plans for skills and employment.

We are currently receiving funding and investment from these schemes:

This is part of the £2.6 billion UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) that has been made available for local investment and is part of the Central Government’s ‘Levelling Up’ commitment.

Buckinghamshire’s allocation is £5.8 million.

View our plans for the UKSPF funding.

This £1.8 million fund will provide crucial support to small rural businesses and has been made possible through the Government’s £110 million Rural England Prosperity Fund.

View our plans for the BRBG fund.

The Westcott Launchpad Programme is a funding voucher opportunity available to:

• start ups
• small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
• large businesses

It will support innovation, new products and services at Westcott Enterprise Zone.

The scheme helps businesses to develop and grow by offering a voucher that gives access to (and the utilisation of) the facilities, equipment and expertise of:

• Satellite Applications Catapult
• Protolaunch
• Plastron
• Airborne Engineering
• European Astrotech

You can apply for vouchers up to £25,000.

View more and apply for vouchers on the Westcott Launchpad Programme website.

Previous funding and investment we have received includes:

• Local Growth Fund (PDF, 194 KB)
• Getting Building Fund (PDF, 168 KB)
• European Fund projects

View more about our previous funding and investment.