Representation

Members of the Initiative Team take a leading role in a number of key partnerships linking the public and private sectors. We engage in these to help produce solutions which benefit the whole community and to ensure plans for growth are ambitious enough to meet the needs of business.

We also represent the interests of all our members on a range of strategic and local bodies. For example, we have seats on the South West Regional Development Agency, Regional Assembly, West of England Partnership, and Local Strategic Partnerships across our area. All of these provide an important platform for us to ensure the voice of business is heard in strategic decision making.

In addition we work hard to ensure your voice is heard in relation to all major consultation processes affecting the West of England:

• we host consultation meetings for members
• we respond to local, regional and national consultations on a range of key issues
• we hold online polls to seek members’ views on key strategic issues we provide regular information updates and briefing notes for members

Recent Consultations and Responses