Published: 23 August 2024
From: Community
Seven Â鶹´«Ã½ community groups have received a total of £46,457 in grants from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).
The UKSPF aims to decrease the gap in healthy life expectancy and increase opportunities between those in the most and least deprived areas in Â鶹´«Ã½.
Funding is provided to support projects that boost productivity, pay, jobs and living standards, improve public services, empower local leaders and communities, or restore a sense of community and local pride.
Â鶹´«Ã½ Borough Council secured £1 million from the UKSPF over three years to be spent in Bewbush, Broadfield and West Green. In 2024 to 2025, funding has been given to these seven recipients:
- Â鶹´«Ã½ Community Youth Service (CCYS) – £10,000 to deliver a weekly drop-in for young people in Broadfield
- Ten Little Toes Baby Bank – £10,000 for support with the venue cost of its hub in West Green and its outreach, engagement and volunteering programme
- Â鶹´«Ã½ Town Community Foundation – £7,250 to enhance Friday Night Kicks sessions at the 3G pitch in Broadfield
- Citizens Advice West Sussex – £5,532 to develop community information hubs to train and support residents to become volunteers
- Christians Against Poverty – £5,125 to increase finance and debt support and money management courses
- Dance Hub – £5,000 to develop the YES (Youth Empowered by StreetDance) project in West Green and Bewbush
- Creative Â鶹´«Ã½ – £3,550 to support a network of volunteer ‘Playmakers’ to develop the Art is Everywhere programme
This funding has been crucial in helping us to develop our weekly youth club in Broadfield, providing more opportunities for young people.
Chris Cook
Interim CEO
CCYS
We’re delighted to receive support from SPF for the Creative Playground project. It will enable us to support individuals in key neighbourhoods to kickstart creative ideas through small cash injections of up to £500 and in-kind support. Our aim is to make Â鶹´«Ã½ a better place to live and work through arts and culture and this vital funding will enable homegrown creative initiatives to get off the ground that also benefit other people in our town.
Sophie Eustace
Co-Director
Creative Â鶹´«Ã½
This is the third round of Shared Prosperity Fund money we’ve been able to award and I’m delighted that we’re able to help these wonderful groups. All of them will add value to the quality of many local residents’ lives.
Councillor Michael Jones
Leader
Â鶹´«Ã½ Borough Council
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