The Leeds Initiative is the city’s Local Strategic Partnership.  Their role is to bring together the public, private, community, voluntary and faith sectors to work to achieve success, encourage improvement, and tackle and overcome problems for the benefit for all citizens now and in the future. 

Following extensive consultation and research, they published the first Vision for Leeds and, in 2004, the updated “Vision for Leeds 2004-2020”.   This sets out a long-term plan for the ongoing economic, cultural and environmental development of the city and can be found here.  The Vision for Leeds has three main aims.

• Going up a league as a city - making Leeds an internationally competitive city, the best place in the country to live, work and learn, with a high quality of life for everyone.
• Narrowing the Gap between the most disadvantaged people and communities and the rest of the city.
• Developing Leeds' role as the regional capital, contributing to the national economy as a competitive European city, supporting and supported by a region that is becoming increasingly prosperous.

These aims can not be achieved separately or independently of each other. A thriving city means a city in which all residents can share in its success. So we cannot succeed in going up a league without narrowing the gap. Similarly, we will only succeed in narrowing the gap if we have a successful economy and connect people to the opportunities we have created. As the capital of Yorkshire, both of these aims are totally linked to the success of the whole region. Leeds' economic success benefits and relies on the wider region.

For further information about the Vision for Leeds please visit the Leeds Initiative website at www.leedsinitiative.org.uk or download the Vision for Leeds here.