The Core Cities Group is a coalition of England's major regional cities:

• Birmingham - West Midlands
• Bristol - South West
• Leeds - West Yorkshire
• Liverpool - Merseyside / North West
• Manchester - Greater Manchester / North West
• Newcastle upon Tyne - North East
• Nottingham - East Midlands
• Sheffield - South Yorkshire

The Core Cities work in partnership to enhance their economic performances, and to secure positive identities as places to live, work, visit and do business. The Core Cities Group is more than 10 years old, and has cross-party collaboration; leadership across the Cities takes in all three major political parties. It is a self-selected and self funded group.

The work of the Core Cities Group has demonstrated the critical economic role of these Cities. They are major centres of business and wealth creation that in turn power the economy of the surrounding region. They sit at the heart of travel networks, surrounded by towns and rural areas that are economically dependent on each other and across which people travel to and from work; functional economic areas that have developed city region partnerships to work across boundaries.

The Core Cities Group has eight main interests, namely:

• Transport and connectivity
• Innovation and business support
• Skills and employment
• Sustainable communities
• Culture and creative industries
• Climate change
• Finance and industry
• Governance

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Eurocities website