20 April 2023 | All News
We completed a mammoth year through the UK Community Renewal Fund, completing 23 community projects through 2022 with both Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council. We’re delighted to now be working with Amber Valley, Broxtowe District Council, Mansfield District Council, Newark & Sherwood District Council and Nottingham City Council again through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills.
Keep an eye on our latest projects in the region here.
Nottingham City Council
Between January 2023 and March 2025, we’ll be supporting the refurbishment of 14 community spaces and places in Nottingham City. Through a variety of works, we’ll be helping to improve their functionality and usability, enabling them to engage new audiences, support their existing members with new and/or improved services and increasing the venues’ confidence for their future sustainability.
Head here to see our work on this programme so far, and to see how young people you may know or work with, as well as other Community Volunteers, could get involved.
Nottingham City Council’s Place team volunteering with us at Rufford Avenue Allotment, 2022
Newark & Sherwood District Council
Following our project at Flower Pod with 16 students from Newark Orchard School, supporting students with special educational needs and disabilities, their students have now created a sensory garden at their school site in Balderton, Newark on Trent. The new garden will allow the school to combine learning with the outdoors as well as create a space that the students can enjoy. We’ve helped them transform this previously under-utilised space, working hard to prepare the surface to install hardcore pathway around the perimeter and in the centre of the garden. The students also built bespoke seating and child-friendly planters in the garden, ensuring this fully accessible space can be enjoyed by all students.
With the help of 26 young volunteers, 14 students gaining City & Guilds accreditations to help them pursue a future career or interest, they’ve built their own valuable space that they can take pride in. The garden should be finished by early summer 2023 for them to begin using.
We will also be working with Newark & Sherwood District Council from 2024 on further projects too!
