On the 25^th July, 2006 representatives of LEGI bidders and others from across the South West region and London attended a seminar in Bristol to explore the evidence available to support their proposals for the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit’s (NRU) Local Economic Growth Initiative (LEGI). Presentations and links to further resources are provided below for reference and further exploration.

Click here to download seminar agenda

Dawn Eastmead ‘The Importance of Evidence’

Divisional Manager (Whitehall), Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (NRU)
Dawn.Eastmead@communities.gsi.gov.uk
www.neighbourhood.gov.uk
Dawn introduced the seminar emphasising the importance of a robust evidence base to successful awarding and delivery of LEGI.
Click here to download Dawn’s presentation

Jonathan Durnin & Oliver Allies ‘Using evidence to support LEGI’

Supporting Evidence for Local Delivery North East Pilot (SELDNE)
jdurnin@ers.org.uk
oallies@ers.org.uk
www.seld-ne.org.uk
Oliver and Jonathan introduced background to LEGI, including a review of the common evidence sources drawn upon to bid for and consequently deliver LEGI based o­n their experience supporting such bids.
Click here to download Oliver & Jonathan’s presentation
Click here to download SELD NE LEGI Evidence Resource

Sinclair Sutherland ‘Nomisweb.co.uk’

Director
NOMIS: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Labour Market Statistics
sinclair.sutherland@durham.ac.uk
www.nomisweb.co.uk
Sinclair provided a review of the quality and types of data available through the NOMIS service.
Click here to download Sinclair’s presentation

Guy Rubin ‘Measuring what matters’

Senior Researcher
New Economic Foundation (NEF)
Guy.Rubin@neweconomics.org
www.neweconomics.org
Guy has been involved in supporting various LEGI bids and introduced some of the lessons learned through their support of successful round 1 bids such as the Hastings LEGI.
Click here to download Guy’s presentation

Lisa Sanfilippo ‘How can LEGI bring about lasting change?’

Head of Measurement & Evaluation
New Economic Foundation (NEF)
Lisa.Sanfilippo@neweconomics.org
www.neweconomics.org
Lisa introduced some of the alternative measures available to capture outcomes from LEGI delivery including Social Return o­n Investment (SROI), Balanced scorecard and some of the tools developed by NEF and others to help quantify and qualify harder to measure outcomes.
Click here to download Lisa’s presentation

Jo Sinclair ‘LEGI in Barking & Dagenham’

LEGI Coordinator
Barking & Dagenham Partnership
http://www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk/5-work/business/local-enterprise-growth.html
As a case-study of ‘what a successful LEGI bid looks like’, Jo reviewed what Barking & Dagenham did when putting their successful bid together.
Click here to download Jo’s presentation

Useful Resources

• Neighbourhood Renewal Unit LEGI pages
• Neighbourhood Renewal Unit o­nline guide to what works (Renewal.net)
• Neighbourhood Statistics (NeSS)
• Data4NR Employment Resource Links (73 Data Sources)
• SELDNE Worklessness & LEGI Resources
• SELDWM Worklessness Evidence Resources
• SELDSW Worklessness Evidence Resource Guide
• New Economics Foundation Measurement Tools
• New Economic Foundation Plugging the Leaks site
• New Economics Foundation ‘The Money Trail’ report
• Hastings (successful) LEGI Bid
• The BETA Model (yellow pages business registrations)