Tees Valley Industrial Programme

The Tees Valley Industrial Programme (TVIP) is a £60m investment between now and 2012 designed to accelerate industrial transition in the area and seize the emerging opportunities in low carbon and advanced manufacturing.  TVIP has been jointly agreed by One North East, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). 

TVIP recognises the significant commitment of businesses and partners in the Tees Valley, through approaches such as the NEPIC 10 Point Plan, and TVU’s North/South Tees Study and is being managed by One North East, in partnership with BIS and DECC. 

Working with a wide range of industry and public partners, we are building on Tees Valley’s unique industrial strengths and opportunities and using TVIP funding to catalyse and accelerate company investments, as part of a long term plan to transition the Tees Valley into a new low carbon future. 

Project approval and monitoring is following the One North East business processes.  TVIP is designed to:

1.       Address immediate issues by providing further support to sustain apprenticeships and encourage enterprise, including support for people to start their own business.

2.       Support the area's process industry asset base by accelerating private investment, measures to reduce energy use and initiatives on carbon capture and storage, develop bio-based materials, support for technology transfer and new business practices.

3.       Diversify the Tees Valley economy through the development of significant business opportunities for investment and transition into new low carbon industries and advanced manufacturing.  This includes investment in redevelopment of industrial land and infrastructure investment.

The overall package will create an estimated 3,000 new jobs in the short to medium term and sustain over 10,000 jobs in the longer term.

How the programme is delivered

A programme advisory group, chaired by Ian Williams, our Director of Business & Industry, supports and oversees programme development.  It is made up of industrialists, the North East Process Industry Cluster, Centre for Process Innovation, Tees Valley Unlimited, and local authorities, alongside One North East and BIS representatives.

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The Tees Valley Industrial Programme is prioritising invesment in

• Apprenticeships
• Enterprise & Business Support
• Engineering Diversification
• Innovation
• Energy Efficiency
• Carbon Capture & Storage
• Business Investment & Infrastructure

Public and private partners continue to develop activities for each workstream, building on our investments to date.  For more information, please click on the above links.

How is funding allocated?

TVIP builds on One North East’s existing £130m investment on business support and skills in the Tees Valley (2009-12).  There are a range of existing Solutions for Business available to businesses in the Tees Valley, such as Grant for Business Investment, Grant for Research and Development, Innovation Advice and Guidance and Intensive Start Up Support.  Business Link can provide a range of high quality, impartial advice and support to any business to sustain, grow and develop and exploit new ideas.

We are enhancing these products to deliver additional support for Tees Valley.  However, it is vital that the programme demonstrates a catalytic effect on the Tees Valley economy and enhances its competitiveness as a business location.

Investments must result in a medium/long term industry impact through structural change and tackle proven market failure. We must also ensure that investments such as infrastructure enhancements or land remediation are used to catalyse significant private investment by removing barriers to investment.

Full information on the agreed criteria we are using to allocate TVIP funding is available here.

Evaluating the Programme

One North East and BIS commissioned Brightpurpose Consulting to undertake an interim qualitative evaluation of the TVIP in June 2010. It provides One North East, BIS and the broad range of partners involved with TVIP with an assessment of its first six months, concentrating on:

• Added value – governance, engagement and partnership working
• Lessons for ongoing delivery, and future delivery of similar programmes

The evaluation confirms that TVIP has made good progress in its first six months, and highlights a number of factors contributing to this performance, including:

• Pre-existing strategic development plans for the sub-region, and shared agreement to the plans.
• Rooting in a broad understanding of the national impact of investments, as well as sub-national.
• Strong leadership and networking capacity, with key personnel allocated to the TVIP. A lead organisation with mature programme management, co-ordination capability and capacity.
• A significant funding pot, to enable a flexible programme approach. A tightly focused set of priorities.

To read more, and download the full report, please click on the link below.

You can read the latest TVIP ebulletin update by clicking on the link below.

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Supporting Documents and Downloads

Tees Valley Industrial Programme Interim Evaluation [pdf] (1.71 MB)

Tees Valley Industrial Programme Summary August 2010 [pdf] (152 KB)

Tees Valley Industrial Programme Update March 2010 [pdf] (111 KB)

Tees Valley Industrial Programme Update Late March 2010 [pdf] (116 KB)