While demand for water grows, the Eastern England is classified as “severely water stressed” and risks severe shortages without immediate collaborative action.
Al Kingsley, who has three decades of experience in leading education and edtech business roles has joined the Board of the Oxford to Cambridge pan-Regional Partnership. Kingsley takes over from Peter Horrocks CBE, former Chair of the South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership.
We are excited to share news of our first Innovation Network of Networks event, at which leading representatives came together in Milton Keynes in March to discuss the untapped innovative potential of the region.
Colleagues from across the Region will be at this year's UK Real Estate and Infrastructure Investment Conference (UKREiiF) in Leeds, from Tuesday 21 May to Thursday 23 May. We are there to showcase the investment potential and dynamic innovation ecosystem that characterises the Oxford to Cambridge region. Our pan-regional collaboration is on a mission to accelerate economic opportunities created by our region’s science, technology, and business strengths, and to work with investors, real estate professionals, developers and government to achieve significant environmental enhancements and unlock investment for inclusive, high quality sustainable development for our region. Our aim is to help shift the dial on business and investment decisions from being ‘cautiously optimistic’ to 'confidently ambitious'.
The period since our All-Partner Conference in November has been dominated by a rapid ramp up of project development, procurement and delivery. Click on the video below to hear a message from the Partnership's Chair, Dipesh J Shah OBE.
Today, the Oxford to Cambridge Pan-Regional Partnership announces the appointment of Better Futures Consultancy to design and develop a web-based portal to present key information about the region’s economy and environment. This will form a fundamental part of a new Oxford to Cambridge Regional Data Observatory, a service that will provide transparent, unbiased, high quality, and frequently updated economic and environmental evidence. The Observatory will be equipped with robust research and analytical capability to support regional partners in policy, business case development and project monitoring, managed through a central regional team.
I hope you all managed to take a break over the festive period and can start the new year with renewed energy and optimism. Last year, and especially the second half of 2023, was one of rapid acceleration and development for the Pan-Regional Partnership. Many of you attended the all-partner conference in late November and hopefully witnessed this first hand.
Thank you to all the Partners who joined us for our first All Partner Conference on Friday 24th November. Testament to the power of partnership, Dipesh J Shah OBE said, “there was a real buzz and excitement in the room; creativity and people full of ideas, intellectual rigour, and a real desire to participate in a collaborative and partnership way.”
Firstly, a massive thank you to everyone who has already registered to join us for our first All Partner conference on Friday, 24 November at The Ridgeway Centre, Milton Keynes. We have around 200 people coming along for what plan to be an action-packed day of discussion about the priorities for pan-regional partnership and future plans. We have six workshop themes taking place throughout the day, led by Partners. Below I provide more detail on these.
The Oxford to Cambridge Partnership is recruiting several roles to the Executive Team to help deliver its mission of securing a future in which our communities prosper from the very best in environmentally sustainable ways of living and working.
We are developing the region's international investment atlas. The Partnership is seeking to identify the most impactful, strategically important and innovative opportunities to include in our region’s first Investment Atlas. A diverse range of opportunities are being sought from the development and commercialisation of new technologies and services to landscape-scale environmental improvements, to capital investment in real estate.
We're delighted to announce the date of our first All Partner conference, The power of partnership: collaborating and innovating to secure our region's success. Save the date! Friday, 24 November 2023 The Ridgeway Centre, Wolverton, Milton Keynes
I am delighted to have started my role as Managing Director of the Partnership and particularly pleased to have had an opportunity to meet with some of our Board members and stakeholders.
The Oxford to Cambridge Partnership is pleased to announce the appointment of two highly accomplished individuals as Non-Executive Directors who will join from 1st September:
The Oxford to Cambridge Partnership has announced the appointment of Dipesh J. Shah OBE as its first independent Chair.
The new Oxford to Cambridge Partnership brings together the region’s leaders to pursue shared interests in realising economic potential in ways that are environmentally responsible and benefits local communities.
Today, the Oxford to Cambridge Partnership (OCP) announced the appointment of ekosgen to develop a compelling value proposition for the Oxford to Cambridge region, in a bid to attract greater global investment into the UK.