Thread by @JJHTweets

EU DOUBLES OUR MONEY..

EU Doubling our money across the UK: These are just some examples where we should be thanking our EU membership – We wouldn’t have these without the European Regional Growth Fund.

2/ LONDON
Access to New Markets for the Fashion Sector. To enable designers to access opportunities to new markets and increasing national and international trade, ERDF of £150,000 was matched with £150,000 from East London Small Business Centre. This assisted 106

3/ SMEs, created 13 jobs, safeguarded 55 jobs, and generated £2.5m new sales.

EAST of ENGLAND...Low Carbon Innovation Fund is a venture capital fund which makes early stage equity investments into SMEs that are developing new products

4/ or processes in a low carbon way. Turquoise International is managing the fund in partnership with the Low Carbon Innovation Centre at the University of East Anglia. It has received £20.5m of ERDF funding.

5/ This project has targets of 617 new jobs, 115 safeguarded jobs, 70 SMES receiving assistance, 6 successful start-up businesses and over £30m of private sector leverage.

6/ EAST MIDLANDS
The Environmental Technology Centre (ETC) at the University of Nottingham helps SMEs become more resource efficient, develop environmentally friendly working practices, and use more sustainable technologies. Originally £1.6m of ERDF grant was

7/ was provided matched with £2.5m from the University of Nottingham. The first phase of work at the centre delivered 109 projects, including detecting the health of horses’ teeth, prolonging the burn rate of solid fuel, and extending the life of concrete structures.

8/ NORTH EAST
Toffee Factory is the conversion of an iconic factory building in Newcastle into office space. £3m ERDF was matched with £2.75m provided by ONE NorthEast and £250k from Newcastle City Council.

9/ The project’s objectives include the creation of 12 new businesses and 47 new jobs, as well as safeguarding 111 jobs. It will also ensure the remediation of a major Brownfield site in a key strategic location.

10/ NORTH WEST
Regional Business Start Up provides intensive and specialist services and support for people considering setting up in business aiming to improve the survival rates of businesses through targeted support for up to 36 months, and to contribute

11/ towards increased levels of enterprise activity. It is a £9.8m project (including ERDF funding of £4.9m). To date 4,661 businesses have been created, 2,640 individuals helped to start a business, and 7,000 jobs created.

12/ SOUTH EAST
Design and Innovation for Business Sustainability helped SMEs access supply chains by providing advice on optimising packaging impact, lifecycle analysis of the product or service, and optimisation of resources.

13/ The key focus of the project was to design out waste within the retail sector by working with South East based designers, retailers, and suppliers to develop sustainable packaging solutions. ERDF funding of £420,000 was

14/ matched by £275,000 of SEEDA funding, with the rest being matched by retail companies. The project created over 100 jobs in the South East.

15/ SOUTH WEST
National Composite Centre was developed to put the UK at the forefront of composites technology. The NCC is a purpose-built research and development facility which brings together dynamic companies and academics to develop

16/ technologies supporting the design and rapid manufacture of composite products. ERDF funding of £9m was matched with £12m BIS, £4m RDA. The ERDF investment is expected to generate over 150 additional jobs, and the South West is now seen as a leader in this field...

17/ and the NCC is being expanded even further.

Yes I know a lot of pieces I this thread....

18/ WEST MIDLANDS Enterprise Programme is a business support service for young people delivered by The Prince’s Trust. The initiative will support over 2,000 young entrepreneurs and aims to create hundreds of jobs through the youth charity’s Enterprise Programme.

19/ The programme works with disadvantaged young people aged 18–30, helping them set up their own businesses and move into employment and jobs. ERDF of £1.5m is matched with £1.5m from The Prince’s Trust.

20/ YORKSHIRE & THE HUMBER
Finance Yorkshire is a venture capital and loan fund partnership with European Investment Bank. The fund invests in businesses that are already in, or relocating to, Yorkshire and the Humber.

Yes there's more....

21/ There is a £27m business loan fund which to date has made 206 business loans, 26 seed corn loans and 14 equity investments, committing over £27m to local businesses. Investment has led to over 1,200 jobs being created and nearly 4,000 being safeguarded.

The list goes on n on

22/22 I simply don't understand why people want to give this and all my other threads up because of a pack of lies told by incompetent politicians and rubbish they've read in the papers... #FactsMatter folks and we should ARM ourselves with them!