Local London > News > All boroughs

Chair of Local London shares his ambitions for 2025.

Cllr Anthony Okereke, Chair of Local London shares his ambitions for 2025.


I hope that you have had a fun-filled festive season with your loved ones and are optimistic about what the new year will bring.

2025 promises huge opportunities for our sub-region, despite the immense pressures local governments face.

Across our nine boroughs, we are looking forward to continuing to drive inclusive and sustainable growth. Working in partnership, we will advocate for our exciting sub-region to ensure growth benefits all people and businesses here.

At the dawn of this new year, these are eight of the things I am most excited about:

  1. Working with our new government as well as the Leaders, Mayor and CEOs of our member boroughs to ensure that the needs of our sub-region are not lost in assumptions about being part of the capital.
  2. Continuing to seek opportunities to collaborate across borough-boundaries and ensuring the funding we attract delivers benefits that meet the unique needs of our dynamic sub-region.
  3. Working towards achieving the ambitions in our Three-Year Plan: Towards 2026, whilst also being attentive to areas where we may need to flex to meet changing needs and priorities.
  4. Ensuring young people get the best careers education and interactions with businesses to raise and broaden their aspirations and make great choices on their chosen pathways.
  5. Connecting people at all stages of their careers to training and jobs, so they can learn and progress and helping businesses find workers with the skills they need to grow through employment support initiatives managed and delivered with and for our boroughs.
  6. Addressing barriers to growth in our sub-region, including digital and transport infrastructure.
  7. Welcoming new initiatives that will support inclusive growth across our boroughs and wider such as Connect to Work, the Growth Plan for London, the Industrial Strategy.
  8. Onboarding the new permanent Director of Local London in the coming months; our Joint Committee and Chief Executive Board, and team are looking forward to working with them.

Pulling together, we will achieve more for all the people living and working in this part of London. This is London’s Leading Edge!

Wishing you all the very best for 2025, let’s make this the best year yet.

Councillor Anthony Okereke, Chair of Local London and Leader of London Borough of Greenwich.

 

View news and resources, by tag:

Further reading

  1. Previous Ofsted praises well-designed careers programme
  2. Next Hiring: Integration Officer