West Midlands Growth Company Limited
West Midlands Growth Company Limited
The West Midlands Growth Company is dedicated to fostering economic development in Birmingham and the West Midlands by creating jobs, expanding businesses, attracting investment, and promoting tourism.
Services
- Capital Attraction
- Inward Investment
- Tourism Development
Financial Snapshot
Directors
Name | Role | Appointed ↓ | Nationality | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melanie Jane Smith | Chief Executive Officer | 21/03/2024 | New Zealander,british,french | 51 years |
| David Uzochukwesi Mba | Vice Chancellor | 01/12/2023 | British | 56 years |
| Nicholas Barton | Chief Executive | 20/09/2023 | British | 58 years |
| Andrew Ian Lovett | Chief Executive | 07/06/2022 | British | 59 years |
| Jane Whitlock | Midlands Practice Senior Partner | 13/09/2021 | British | 55 years |
| Laura Manning Shoaf | Interim Chief Executive | 24/08/2021 | British | 53 years |
| Sally Heather Scott | Chief Marketing Officer | 30/06/2020 | British | 51 years |
| Timothy David Johnson | Company Director | 07/06/2018 | British | 58 years |
| David Matthew Hammond | Certified Accountant | 23/05/2018 | British | 55 years |
| Thomas Philip Westley | Chairman | 13/06/2017 | British | 73 years |
| Neil Mahendra Rami | Chief Executive | 20/10/2010 | British | 57 years |
People with Significant Control
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Charges
Properties
Baskerville House, Broad Street, Birmingham (B1 2ND)
Baskerville House, Broad Street, Birmingham (B1 2ND)
Office Premises At Part Floor 11, The Colmore Building, 20 Colmore Circus Queensway, Birmingham (B4 6AT)
Grants
Total grant funding received: £2,265,221.00
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| 01/04/2020 | £160,000.00 | Department for International Trade | Midlands Engine 20/21 |
| ME KAM Programme - A grant funded programme to support Local Enterprise Partnerships across the Midlands in having the tools and resources to strategically account manage existing foreign investors to generate expansions and reinvestment. | |||
| 01/04/2020 | £29,866.00 | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport | ALB - British Tourist Authority t/a VisitEngland - COVID-19 Destination Management Resilience Scheme |
| The purpose of this grant award is designed to help alleviate the financial pressure many destination management organisations (DMOs) in England are currently facing as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. The Scheme will help to continue paying for those employees who have a critical role to play in communicating and engaging with tourism businesses during the current COVID-19 outbreak who would have otherwise been furloughed. | |||
| 01/09/2019 | £120,000.00 | Department for International Trade | Midlands Engine Challenge Fund |
| ME KAM Programme - A grant funded programme to support Local Enterprise Partnerships across the Midlands in having the tools and resources to strategically account existing foreign investors to generate expansions and reinvestment. | |||
| 01/04/2019 | £190,355.00 | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport | ALB - VisitEngland - Discover England Fund |
| The purpose of this Grant is predominantly to fund the project, The Waterways of England which has three core aims: (a) product development - to increase bookable, commissionable product along the intuitive routes created by the waterways, creating unique, memorable English holidays which encourage repeat visits; (b) market development - to increase the knowledge of, and propensity to visit to Englands Heartlands through the travel trade supply chain; and (c) economic impact by using the waterways as the hook to increase the volume and value of visits across the seasons and upscaling the project across the English waterways. The target overseas markets are Germany and The Netherlands. | |||
| 01/04/2019 | £125,000.00 | Department for International Trade | Midlands Engine Challenge Fund |
| To provide an exhibition pavilion at the world's largest commercial property show, MIPIM Cannes, showcasing the capital investment opportunities of the whole Midlands to international investors. | |||
ME KAM Programme - A grant funded programme to support Local Enterprise Partnerships across the Midlands in having the tools and resources to strategically account manage existing foreign investors to generate expansions and reinvestment.
The purpose of this grant award is designed to help alleviate the financial pressure many destination management organisations (DMOs) in England are currently facing as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. The Scheme will help to continue paying for those employees who have a critical role to play in communicating and engaging with tourism businesses during the current COVID-19 outbreak who would have otherwise been furloughed.
ME KAM Programme - A grant funded programme to support Local Enterprise Partnerships across the Midlands in having the tools and resources to strategically account existing foreign investors to generate expansions and reinvestment.
The purpose of this Grant is predominantly to fund the project, The Waterways of England which has three core aims: (a) product development - to increase bookable, commissionable product along the intuitive routes created by the waterways, creating unique, memorable English holidays which encourage repeat visits; (b) market development - to increase the knowledge of, and propensity to visit to Englands Heartlands through the travel trade supply chain; and (c) economic impact by using the waterways as the hook to increase the volume and value of visits across the seasons and upscaling the project across the English waterways. The target overseas markets are Germany and The Netherlands.
To provide an exhibition pavilion at the world's largest commercial property show, MIPIM Cannes, showcasing the capital investment opportunities of the whole Midlands to international investors.
Government Council Contracts Beta
Council Partners
Company Filings
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