What do you mean, what's one of those? Keep up.

Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) were set up to drive local economic growth. From 2014 this role will include developing investment strategies for European Structural Funds investment in business growth, skills, inclusion and rural development. 

LEPs were originally created as private sector-led public: private sector partnerships, so there's not been much voluntary and community sector (VCS) engagement with LEPs. However, their role is now rapidly expanding into areas such as:

• skills for employment
• community-led local development 
• economic and social inclusion 
• environment and climate change 
• social innovation 
• ICT and digital inclusion and 
• youth unemployment

These are obviously areas where the VCS has an interest. Invlove Yorkshire and the Humber have oproduced a report outlining what LEPs are doing and how the sectotr might get involved.

Read their report is here