Together We’re Greater – Team Lincolnshire Plans for Growth

Team Lincolnshire launched its new business plan on Thursday (22nd October), setting out some ambitious objectives to boost the economy and increase investment into Greater Lincolnshire.

Around 50 Team Lincolnshire ambassadors tuned in to a webinar and heard presentations from fellow ambassadors Councillor Colin Davie of Lincolnshire County Council, Simon Morris from Gleeds consultants, John McCay from RizkMcCay, and Samantha Harrison and Karen Seal from Lincolnshire County Council.

In three years Team Lincolnshire has grown from a small informal group of mainly property professionals attending MIPIM, the annual real estate show in Cannes, to an ambassador programme with 115 members covering a broad range of sectors and located both within and outside the region.

During the webinar ambassadors were encouraged to sign up to the members’ charter, do more to promote Greater Lincolnshire, bring other professionals on board and help Team Lincolnshire to grow.

Team Lincolnshire’s new motto is ‘Together We’re Greater’, emphasising the collaborative nature of the programme and the fact that it covers the historic county of Lincolnshire from the Humber to the Wash as well as Rutland.

Five strategic objectives for the future were set out:

– attract business investment into the Greater Lincolnshire construction sector

– attract business investment into the Greater Lincolnshire food manufacturing sector

– attract office-based businesses looking to relocate

– attract investment that benefits all

– provide investors with a comprehensive soft-landing package

Future activity will cover all economic sectors with a particular focus on food processing, automation and robotics. In the future there will be a particular focus on renewables / energy, carbon reduction, visitor economy, health and care and digital technology.