SURREY RURAL PARTNERSHIP

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SURREY RURAL PARTNERSHIP
Change in the Village - Nothing New? Chris
Stanton Surrey Skills for Productivity Alliance
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Chris Stanton Personal Story

• Still living and working within 10 miles of
  childhood home
• Currently in Job no. 6 in Career no. 3
• Family history - away from agricultural work to
  new technologies
• Loseley House as a catalyst for change
• Passionate about education

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Surrey a century of Change in the Village

• Traditional land-based agriculture, heath and
  woodland
• Hops for brewing industry (40 pubs in Farnham
  alone c.1900)
• Mineral extraction chalk, clay, gravels,
  sandstone
• National Trust from Octavia Hill to Box Hill
• Manufacturing Dennis of Guildford, Hawkers at
  Kingston and Dunsfold and Vickers of Weybridge .
  . .
• Education, Health and Public Services

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Case Study

• Family-run business celebrating its Centenary in
  2008
• Original market garden produce and salads still
  produced
• Diversification into retail (farm shop, PYO,
  garden centre, online)
• Land sold for golf course
• Secretts of Rudgwick one year old tomorrow
  for traditional village shopping in the 21st
  Century

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• Customer focused
• crops harvested daily, ensuring steady supply of
  seasonal produce high in flavour and nutritional
  value
• locally baked bread and cakes, free range eggs
  and fresh meat from a local butcher on sale 7
  days a week
• quality grocery products (from local suppliers
  where possible)
• now offering Local Ales, Wine, Beer Cider

Vintage Delivery Bicycle(Larger orders will be
delivered by car or van)
(NB this website makes me want to visit . . . !)
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The Secret of Success

• Their Staff
• employable people who are literate and numerate
• with the all-important soft skills of
  communication, problem-solving and team-building
  
• where ability to speak a foreign language may be
  an advantage (see application form)
• who are led by people with vision who recognise
  the need to adapt their business to meet
  changing market conditions in the local economy

(NB leadership and management are key skills . .
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We teach our 7 11 year olds wealth creation -
social wealth as well as financial wealth . . .
Andrew Carter OBE Head Teacher, South Farnham
School
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Academic . . . . . . or vocational . . . or
BOTH? We have to motivate many more adults to
want to improve their skills and education,
including the millions of people who left school
with few or no qualifications. World Class
Skills (2007) Executive Summary
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Overview of World Class Skills (July
2007) Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in
England

• Increase skill attainments at all levels
• Strengthen the business contribution to
  workforce skills development by enabling
  employers to invest in more work-based learning,
  including Apprenticeships and higher level
  qualifications
• Raise people's aspirations and awareness of the
  value of skills, including creation of a new
  adult careers service and integration of public
  employment and skills
• Develop employer-led Employment and Skills
  Boards
• (Based on HM treasury website summary of Leitch
  recommendations)

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World Class Skills (July 2007) Implementing the
Leitch Review of Skills in England

• Sector Skills Councils will ensure that the
  supply of skills and qualifications is driven by
  employers.
• We want employers to be more demanding . . .
  and to engage with and challenge the learning
  and skills providers at all levels, to achieve
  high standards in the design and delivery of
  training.
• We will encourage more HE institutions to
  collaborate with employers to develop programmes
  and delivery methods that meet their higher
  level skills needs.

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Key Points Sub National Review (July 2007)

• Increased partnership working through LAAs and
  MAAs
• A greater say for regions on how spending is
  prioritised, including clear focus on increasing
  economic growth, with increased scrutiny by
  local authorities
• Funding for school sixth forms, sixth form
  colleges and FE input to 14-19 phase to transfer
  from LSC to local authorities ring- fenced
  budgets
• Schools and FE college 14-19 partnerships
  introducing new Diplomas from September 2008
  big issue for rural areas that lack employer
  base for work-related learning

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Sector Priorities in the South East

• Business Services
• Construction
• Health and Social Care
• Manufacturing/Engineering (of which Advanced
  Engineering is a major sub-sector)
• Wholesale and Retail
• (RES Action 10.1 Work with employers to support
  in-work training schemes provide vocational
  training and support in a range of learning
  styles and target the support of FE and HE
  courses in industrial sectors that have
  significant skills gaps.)

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Surrey Skills for Productivity Alliance - The
Mission (1)

• Support for Train to Gain brokerage model of
  Skills South East through contact with Sector
  Skills Councils, Sector Consortia, business
  support partners, providers and others on
  specific local initiatives
• Focus on implementation of the Regional Economic
  Strategy Actions for RD, Innovation, Skills,
  Employment and Sustainability, with particular
  emphasis on the Inner SE economic contour that
  includes Gatwick Diamond and the Heathrow
  influenced parts of west Surrey as well as
  business sectors of key importance to Surrey

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Surrey Skills for Productivity Alliance - The
Mission (2)

• Engagement of employers through direct and
  indirect communication, including media
  publicity/PR, etc.
• Promotion of opportunities for increased
  dialogue between business and education
  (secondary schools, FE and HE)
• Support for integration of public employment and
  skills services to deliver sustainable
  employment and enable more disadvantaged people
  to gain skills and find work within the 14-19
  agenda to support the identification of solutions
  for NEETs those not in education, employment
  or training

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Surrey Local Area Agreement National Indicators
to support Economic Development Theme

• NI 163 Working age population qualified to at
  least Level 2 or higher should be supported this
  is the minimum standard for maintaining our
  successful economy.
• NI 164 Working age population qualified to at
  least Level 3 or higher should be added as this
  reflects the needs and shortfalls in supporting
  our knowledge based and globally competitive
  economy. This would also reflect the importance
  of degree level and above skills to the Surrey
  knowledge-based economy.
• NI 151 Overall Employment Rate should be used to
  ensure those currently not employed are given
  opportunities to gain employment, thus tackling
  employers labour shortage problems and support a
  successful economy. This would include support to
  benefits claimants but not IB claimants
  exclusively.
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• Possible additional local indicators
• number of NVQ Level 2 learner starts
• business survival rates
• Regional targets on business start-ups
• increase in GVA
• development of an indicator reflecting the
  future threats to the rural economy

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Business Rate
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Case Study Capel
Bed and Breakfast
Stylehurst Farm
Nightless Copse Farm

• Capel resident since 1960s
• Former dairy farm now some beef
• Blames CAP for farming decline
• BB since 2002 business clientele
• Active in Guides and local village community
  activities
• Concerned for Capels social fabric

• Capel resident since childhood
• Hospitality/Catering background
• Fed up with daily London commute
• BB since 1999 to be with family
• Active in Brownies and Sunday School has 4
  CRBs!
• Old friends at Stylehurst Farm . . .

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Case Study Capel
The Studio

• Therapeutic environment for treatment and
  support of ADHD since 1999
• Programmes include Anger Management, Social
  Skills and Self Esteem
• University of Surrey Research into ADHD and
  enterprise potential
• Bursary scheme to support low income families
  and young unemployed
• Registered as a Duke of Edinburgh Award Unit
  for Special Needs

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Case Study Capel Treetops Studios
I started like most musician / engineers, about
20 years ago, with a basic 4 track tape machine,
microphone synthesiser, doing demo tapes for
mates, trying to create great music that killer
sound. 20 years on not much has changed, the 4
track has been replaced with the latest most up
to date recording equipment software, but one
thing has remained, thats still trying to create
great music and that killer sound. I said it
over 20 years ago and still say it today Its
all about the music and its creation." Mark
Sugden-Best Musician/Engineer/Producer/Manager
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Case Study Capel
Can we learn to love Energy from Waste?

• The Surrey Landscape G.G. Clark W.H.
  Thompson (1934)
• Railways, telegraph posts, steel towers for
  electricity transmission, and petrol stations are
  a few of the modern industrial innovations. They
  are the necessities of our age, just as the water
  mill with its weir and the windmill with its
  whirling sails fulfilled the mechanical wants of
  our forefathers. Provided that they are designed
  with true economy the landscape will absorb them,
  as it has absorbed the Roman road and, in other
  lands, the Roman aqueduct.
• Will we let the Surrey landscape absorb this
  necessity of our age?

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Case Study Capel
Summary

• We want to support our community
• We want to preserve our landscape
• We want planners and politicians to listen
• We want less bureaucracy and regulation
• We want common sense to prevail
• We are prepared to embrace change through the
  use of new technologies

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The Rural Challenge Our long term skills needs
will only be met if we also ensure that young
people have a better start than previous
generations, and are equipped with the skills,
competencies, understanding and attributes they
need to succeed in a modern, sustainable
economy. World Class Skills (2007) Executive
Summary
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• To Consider
• Relevance of Employment and Skills strategy
  to rural Surrey
• How to engage rural business in the skills
  debate and identify gaps
• Provision of solutions that meet skills needs
  and customer requirements
• Chris Stanton
• Manager
• Surrey Skills for Productivity Alliance
• 01483 685229
• chris_at_surreyeconomicpartnership.org