The Government has announced that all Regional Development Agencies (RDAs), including SEEDA, will close by 31 March 2012.
Responsibility for economic development and regeneration in England is being passed onto successor bodies, including Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and central Government departments
Our objective is to ensure a professional and cost effective closure by this date. We have pledged to work closely with our partners, contractors and stakeholders to ensure that the past and future economic benefits of key programmes and assets continue to deliver the greatest economic value for the South East and value for money for the taxpayer.
Please click here for more details about our closure plan, transition arrangements and successor organisations.
Pamela Charlwood
Pamela Charlwood was appointed in December 2006. She brings to the Board the perspective of the voluntary and community sector and her experience of establishing the Connexions service in Hampshire and Isle of Wight, providing information, advice, guidance and support to all young people aged 13 to 19 and ‘connecting’ services for young people across the statutory and voluntary sectors. She has extensive experience of the skills agenda and a strong commitment to matching skills to the needs of employers, particularly through the development of apprenticeships and other training programmes.
Her previous career was in health service management in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, London and the west country; in May 2008 she was appointed as a non executive director on the Board of the Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust, which provides mental health and learning disability services to adults and young people.
She was appointed vice chair of the Trust in November 2008, when she was also appointed to the South East Region Learning and Skills Council. Pamela is also a governor of Treloar College, a national specialist college for disabled young people.
