LEGI is ultimately about improving the quality of life of people. It aims to do this through increasing income levels in the target areas by finding creative and locally owned ways of promoting and supporting enterprise and investment.

At present there are parts of the country where enterprise is under-developed and whose communities are experiencing deprivation.

The LEGI agenda can be summarised into three nationally set core objectives:

• To increase total entrepreneurial activity among the population in deprived local areas
• To support sustainable growth – and reduce the failure rate – of locally owned businesses in deprived local areas; and
• To attract appropriate inward investment and franchising into deprived areas, making use of local labour resources