Setting out how restore and rebuild London with the challenges left behind by coronavirus.
The London Partnership Board
The London Partnership Board, owned by London’s leaders, comes together to address London’s challenges, providing strategic advice to policy and decision makers across the capital and beyond.
The Board was established in March 2023. It evolved from the work of the London Recovery Board, established during the COVID-19 pandemic. It will continue to oversee key workstreams established by the London Recovery Board.
The Board is co-chaired Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and the Chair of London Councils, Councillor Georgia Gould.
Building on the experience of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Board aims to enable the city to respond to current and future complex and cross-cutting challenges by convening London’s leaders. It helps co-ordinate London’s response to these challenges, fostering collaboration between the city’s partners at local, sub regional and city level to achieve shared goals.
The Board advocates for London, amplifying the voice of Londoners and it brings together experts by experience to represent the diversity of London’s communities. Finally, it empowers partners to take action together, and within their own organisations.
The Board is also London’s Local Partnership Group for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
The Building a Fairer City programme is a comprehensive initiative aimed at addressing structural inequalities within London.
Read blogs created by London Partnership Board members.
Board meetings, governance and support
For more information on the way the London Partnership Board works, you can:
Read the Board's Terms of Reference, which set out the representation required on the Board and how its meetings will be conducted.
Read the Board’s meeting papers.
Watch webcasts of Board meetings:
Coordination of the Board’s work is supported by a Public Affairs and Strategic Partnerships Team, hosted by the GLA.
Board membership
The Board's membership is drawn from London's government, business community and civil society and includes senior representatives from the police, transport, healthcare, central government, education and other key sectors. The London Youth Recovery Board is also represented at each Board meeting.
Find out more about the Board’s members below.
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, co-chairs the Board. Read more about the Mayor.
Councillor Georgia Gould, Chair of London Councils co-chairs the Board.
Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer, London Higher (Higher education representative)
Councillor Elizabeth Campbell, Vice Chair of London Councils and leader of the Conservative Group
Laura Citron, CEO, London and Partners (London & Partners representative)
Caroline Clarke, London Regional Director, NHS England and NHS Improvement
Fiona Derbyshire, CEO, Citizens Advice Lewisham (Voluntary and community sector)
John Dickie, CEO, BusinessLDN (Business sector)
Andy Donald, Chair of the Chief Executives of London Councils Committee
Forence Eshalomi MP, Co-Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on London
David Farnsworth, Chair of London Funders (Community and voluntary sector)
Professor Kevin Fenton, London Regional Director, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
Jake Ferguson (Social inequalities expert)
Fiona Fletcher-Smith, Chair G15 & Chief Executive, L&Q (Housing sector representative)
Jo Galloway, Greater London Regional Secretary, UNISON
Janet Gardner, Chair of London Committee, Association of Colleges (Further Education representative)
Alison Griffin, Chief Executive, London Councils
Sam Gurney, London Regional Secretary, Trades Union Congress (Trades Union representative)
The Right Honourable Greg Hands MP, Minister for London (HM Government representative)
Dr Zubaida Haque, Mayor's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group
Deputy Christopher Hayward, Vice Chair of London Councils and Independent Group Lead
Katherine Hill, Strategy Manager, 4 in 10 Child Poverty Network (Community and voluntary sector)
Councillor Claire Holland, Deputy Chair, London Councils
Peter Kavanagh, London & Eastern Regional Secretary, UNITE
James Lee, Disability campaigner and consultant (Social inequalities expert)
Andy Lord, Commissioner, Transport for London
Martin Machray, Co-Chair, London Anchor Institutions Network Steering Group
Sir Bob Neill MP, Co-Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on London
Tonya Nelson, Arts Council England, London Area Director (Cultural and creative sector expert)
Simon Pitkeathley, Chief Executive Camden Town Unlimited and Chair of the Board's UKSPF Local Partnership Sub-group
Councillor Gareth Roberts, Vice Chair of London Councils and leader of the Liberal Democrat Group
Emily Robinson, Chief Executive, London Sport (Sports sector representative)
Sir Mark Rowley, Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Abdurahman Sayed, Chief Executive, Al-Manaar, The Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre (Faith communities representative)
Dr Ashok Sinha, Chair , London Sustainable Development Commission (Environment sector representative)
Wendy Thompson, Co-Chair, London Anchor Institutions Network
Laura Timm , London Policy Representative, Federation of Small Businesses
Professor Tony Travers, Director, LSE London (Expert in London government)
Tony Wong, Chief Executive, Hackney CVS (Voluntary and community sector)
The London Recovery Board
During the COVID-19 pandemic, London established a new partnership structure bringing together leaders from across London’s government, business and civil society, and other key sectors to oversee the long-term recovery effort.
The London Recovery Board’s aims were to help to:
- reverse the pattern of rising unemployment and lost economic growth caused by the economic scarring of COVID-19
- support our communities, including those most impacted by the virus
- help young people to flourish with access to support and opportunities
- narrow social, economic and health inequalities
- accelerate delivery of a cleaner, greener London.
The London Recovery Board used a missions-based approach to London’s Recovery Programme, as well as developing several other key workstreams now being taken forward by the London Partnership Board.
The GLA commissioned PRD to undertake an evaluation of the London Recovery Board in 2023. The report, developed from focus groups and interviews with Board members and officers, highlighted the importance and effectiveness of the London Recovery Board. It also made some recommendations for the future of the Board, and for using the learning from the Recovery Board to support partnership working across the GLA. You can read an Executive Summary here and the full report here.
The London Recovery Board was dissolved in March 2023 and the London Partnership Board was established. You can read meeting papers for the London Recovery Board, and watch archived webcasts of its meetings:
- 16 March 2023
- 22 November 2022
- 21 June 2022
- 1 March 2022
- 1 December 2021
- 21 September 2021
- 21 July 2021
- 3 June 2021
- 9 March 2021
The London Recovery Board was supported by the London Recovery Taskforce, which helped to coordinate actions to meet the recovery challenges, working in partnership across London. Recovery Taskforce meeting papers can be viewed online.
The London Local Enterprise Partnership (2012-2023)
The London Partnership Board has also taken on some of the strategic responsibilities of London's Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), which was integrated into the Greater London Authority (GLA) in 2023. You can find out more about the London LEP and its work here.
As part of this, the GLA has provided the following statements as part of the assurance process around funds provided by central government.
APR 2023-24 - S151 Assurance Statement (Signed)
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