Welcome to Southern England Local Partners

Southern England Local Partners (SELP) is a consortium of 28 organisations from the South East of England, with Hampshire County Council as the Lead Partner. The partnership is administered from an office in Brussels, please see our Contact Details page for more information .

The aim of the office is to provide the South East of England with a presence in Brussels, the heart of European decision making. There are two members of staff in the office - a Head of Office and a Policy Officer - and it is their role to provide the partners with up-to-date information about European initiatives and funding opportunities and to lobby the European institutions on areas of key strategic importance.

The office can provide a wide range of services for its partners, depending on their service level agreement, this can range from receiving regular European news bulletins, identifying funding opportunities, networking with other EU regions to organising events on their behalf.

If you are interested in finding out what SELP could offer to your organisation, please take a look at the How to Join page.

About the South East of England

The South East of England is described as the engine of the UK’s economy. Our population is 8 million. The SELP partnership takes in the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex, East Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire. Major towns and cities include Southampton, Brighton, Oxford, Reading, Guildford, High Wycombe, Winchester. The region affords its citizens a high quality place to live, proximity to a world class city – London, high class universities and low unemployment.