Business, Employment and Education

Ewan Dodds is Colchester2020’s Lead Partner for Promoting business, increasing employment opportunities and improving educational and skills attainment.

This priority builds on the work Colchester2020 has previously undertaken to promote business and employment opportunities in the borough and our push to encourage stronger links between business and education. The focus of this priority has been extended to include educational and skills attainment – an increasingly important area in the current economic climate and a building block for future prosperity of all our citizens.

Within this priority, we aim to:

Tackle unemployment
Develop and deliver a business and education strategy and enhance business links to education
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Co-ordinate access to funding, training and business support opportunities
Lobby effectively on behalf of local businesses
Deliver high-quality educational outputs that can provide a workforce skilled to meet the changing needs of local and future businesses.

Click here to view the action plan which sets out how we look to achieve these aims in more detail.