Our work is all about impact. Impact with businesses across all sectors, impact with our communities and impact with stakeholders with a vested in Oxfordshire’s economy.
During the period of April 2023 to March 2024, our impact has been vast.
We have led, supported and leveraged major activity for Oxfordshire’s businesses and communities in many ways. This has included:
- Supporting over 1,790 businesses from across all districts
- Providing over 2,800 hours of expert business support
- Co-ordinating the ‘Joint Oxfordshire Business Support’ (JOBS) group to increase collaboration with district economic development teams
- Inspiring over 3,250 students, including more than 250 from special schools through our CareersFest conference and other supporting activity
- Supporting hundreds of apprentices, with 115 entering the Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards
- Unlocking over £3.6m of unused apprenticeship levy for Oxfordshire
- Supporting 35 Community Employment Plans
- Supporting and monitoring the completed Local Growth Fund and Getting Building Fund projects which overall have invested £441.7m in Oxfordshire
- Funding visitor economy marketing campaigns engaging millions of people, supporting visitor numbers to locations such as Oxford city centre (pictured right)
- Supporting 52 businesses visitor economy businesses with total grants allocated of £840,884
- Having almost 2,000 downloads of podcasts across the two first ‘OxTalks’ series between April 2023 and March 2024
- Growing followers on social media by 7.5% to over 25,810
