At the Berkshire LEP we believe in collaborative momentum: bringing together business, our unitary authorities, education and the community sector to drive the local economy to new levels of growth. As part of the wider Thames Valley economic region, we serve Berkshire – an area second only to Greater London in output, with a GVA of £30bn per annum. We’re a strategic body led by an executive board of directors with a leading local business figure in the chair; all are volunteers. We’ve developed a Strategic Economic Plan that sets out the vision and business priorities for economic growth in Thames Valley Berkshire. It aims to build on the success of our Technology Sector, which already underpins Britain’s contribution to global telecoms, software, pharmaceuticals and new media advances. The development of our Plan has been enterprise-led but formally approved by all six of the unitary authorities in Thames Valley Berkshire. We don’t just want to get things moving. We don’t even simply want to keep them moving. We want to accelerate the pace of growth and change. The more organisations and people we can involve, and the more energy we can harness, the better Thames Valley Berkshire will be.