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Its mission is to build on Hertfordshire’s
reputation as a premier location for
growth, innovation, creativity and worldleading science, advanced manufacturing
and technologies, and to make it one of
the foremost economies in the UK. In so
doing, it can help realise opportunities
to enable residents, communities and
businesses to thrive, benefitting the
environment and providing a better
quality of life for all.
Hertfordshire Futures offer a
comprehensive suite of programmes and
expertise across these key areas:
• Sector Growth and Investment: working
with businesses in identified clusters and
supporting them to grow and expand;
• Business Support and Enterprise:
equipping businesses and individuals
with the tools they need to reach their
full potential;
• Skills and Employment: growing our
pipeline of highly skilled talent to meet
"Adopting the new
name Hertfordshire
Futures to reflect its
strengthened role
shaping a sustainable
and prosperous future"
the needs of an evolving economy, and
support people most in need to progress
into good jobs.
Established in 2011, Hertfordshire LEP
became fully integrated with Hertfordshire
County Council in March 2024, adopting
the new name Hertfordshire Futures
to reflect its strengthened role shaping
a sustainable and prosperous future
with initiatives that foster economic
growth, protect our environment and
build resilient communities. As part of its
enhanced status and in recognition of its
closer ties with business, Donna Schultz,
CEO, Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce,
sits on Hertfordshire Futures board and
attended its launch on Thursday.
Adrian heralds
a new dawn
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Its Board, chaired by Adrian Hawkins OBE,
provides business leadership of economic
growth, oversight of Hertfordshire’s
economic strategy and delivery of
Hertfordshire Futures programmes
and services; advocacy and investment
activity. Its range of branded services
are shaped around its key priorities and
include:
• Sector Growth and Investment: Visit
Herts; Invest Hertfordshire, Herts IQ and
Hertfordshire Film Office;
• Business Support and Enterprise:
Hertfordshire Growth Hub and Get
Enterprising (delivered by Wenta);
• Skills and Employment: Hertfordshire
Opportunities Portal (HOP); Careers And
Enterprise Company
TOWARDS A NEW ECONOMIC STRATEGY
As the leading business voice on the
economy, Hertfordshire Futures is
responsible for setting the economic
direction for the county. It has been
11 years since the publication of
Hertfordshire’s Strategic Economic Plan
(SEP) which set the blueprint for growth
for the next decade and was revised
in 2017 and again in 2019. Its vision to
become one of the leading UK economies