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Surrey Hills Enterprises

 

 

Meeting: 23/07/2013 - Cabinet (Item 131)

131 PROPOSED HOLDING OF A SHARE AND DIRECTORSHIP BY SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL IN SURREY HILLS ENTERPRISES pdf icon PDF 84 KB

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Decision:

1.         It be agreed that the County Council hold a single share worth £1 in Surrey Hills Enterprises on behalf of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Board.

           

2.         A Member be appointed to sit as Director on the Surrey Hills Enterprises Board until May 2017 (length of the Council) and that this and future appointments be made by the Chief Executive in consultation with the Leader.

 

Reason for decisions

To promote the local businesses, the Surrey Hills brand and generate income for Surrey Hills Enterprises to be reinvested in its activities and the community. The aim is to distribute the profits as grants to projects that deliver the Surrey Hills Management Plan.

 

[The decisions on this item can be called in by the Environment and Transport Select Committee]

Minutes:

Surrey Hills Enterprises (SHE) was established with the support of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Board (AONB Board) to promote the Trademark for the Surrey Hills to businesses in the area, promote those businesses and to support projects to deliver the Surrey Hills AONB Management Plan.

 

Surrey County Council had agreed that SHE may sub-licence the Surrey Hills Trademark to generate an income for reinvestment in the community. A condition of the exercise of this license is that the AONB Board would have a share in SHE and a directorship on its board. The AONB Board was a Joint Committee and as such was unable to hold the directorship or own a share in its own right. The County Council would therefore hold these interests on its behalf.

 

RESOLVED that:

 

1.         It be agreed that the County Council hold a single share worth £1 in Surrey Hills Enterprises on behalf of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Board.

           

2.         A Member be appointed to sit as Director on the Surrey Hills Enterprises Board until May 2017 (length of the Council) and that this and future appointments be made by the Chief Executive in consultation with the Leader.

 

Reason for decisions

To promote the local businesses, the Surrey Hills brand and generate income for Surrey Hills Enterprises to be reinvested in its activities and the community. The aim is to distribute the profits as grants to projects that deliver the Surrey Hills Management Plan.