The Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs) Awards 2009 are an integral part of our strategy to support the delivery of LEPs across Great Britain. We want more employers to work through LEPs so that unemployed people have a better chance to get back to work.
The Awards have been established to highlight the major benefits that LEP participation has brought to employers and partners and to celebrate the success of individual employees who have found sustainable work through the programme.
An overall budget of £663,000 was allocated to support this work and we have delivered the events under budget due to cost savings negotiated with suppliers. Final figures for the cost of each event are listed in the following table:
LEP awards Event costs (£) Scotland Award 55,481.13 North East Award 51,757.25 North West Award 53,970.56 Yorkshire and the Humber Award 55,048.47 Wales Award 53,480.66 West Midlands Award 58,039.11 East Midlands Award 50,878.04 East of England Award 52,016.32 South East Award 55,249.40 London Award 54,988.52 South West Award 51,465.55 National Award 39,441.82 Total costs 631,816.83