Berkshire economic strategy

The Berkshire’s six Unitary Authorities have identified opportunities to significantly boost the benefit Berkshire provides to the UK economy by 2035.

This roadmap – the Berkshire Economic Strategy 2025-2035 and the Berkshire Economic Strategy 2025-2035 Methodology Annex - aims to ensure that Berkshire thrives in the face of future challenges. 

The strategy has two main aims: 

• to provide a compelling case for investment in five transformational projects, and
• to define the set of collaborative actions that will deliver an ambitious vision for Berkshire.

A collaborative and resilient strategy for growth

The Strategy sets out four focus areas. We will us these as a framework for analysing our competitive advantages and performance, managing delivery and measuring impact.

• Economic Productivity.
• Business Performance.
• People, Work and Skills.
• Business Environment.

Within each focus area, we set our evidence-based rational for action, indicators and key metrics. 

Each of these focus areas has its own opportunities to develop, as well as barriers to overcome.

Underpinning the focus areas, we propose five transformational projects for investment.

• Innovate Berkshire.
• Export Powerhouse Berkshire.
• Berkshire’s Productivity Heroes.
• Creative Digital Skills Academy Berkshire.
• Growing and transforming Berkshire together.

These projects are designed to contribute towards achieving our vision for exceptional productivity and employment growth.