Regeneration, high streets and heritage
- Improvements to town centres, neighbourhoods, and high streets, including capital spend and running costs
- Creating and improving green spaces, community gardens, watercourses and embankments in the local area, along with incorporating natural features into wider public spaces
- Support for non-domestic energy efficiency measures and decarbonisation in local businesses, high streets, and community infrastructure
- New community and neighbourhood infrastructure projects, or for improvements to existing ones.
- Enhanced support for arts, cultural, heritage and creative activities, projects and facilities and historic institutions that make up the local cultural heritage offer
- Local arts, cultural, heritage and creative initiatives
- Investment and support for digital infrastructure for local community facilities
Work, productivity and skills
- Support to improve awareness of, and access to, local provision that moves people closer to and into sustained employment, in line with an area’s Get Britain Working Plan
- Funding to support the development, improvement, and promotion of the visitor economy, such as local attractions, historical trails, cultural tours, campaigns and other related tourism products
Cohesion
- Measures to improve community cohesion
Community power
- Delivering engagement, participation and involvement activity to give communities a role in decision-making
- Giving communities a role in the design and delivery of local services
- Enabling community wealth building
- Support for growing the local social economy, including community businesses, co-operatives and social enterprises
- Funding for impactful volunteering and social action projects to develop social and human capital in local place
- Investment in capacity building and infrastructure support for local civil society, youth and community groups
Health and wellbeing
- Supporting community-level health provision
- Integration and co-location of health and wellbeing services
- Funding for local sport and activity facilities, events, teams and leagues, to foster community engagement and connection
- Funding to support preventative public health initiatives and campaigns
- Provide drug and alcohol support for people with experience of homelessness and rough sleeping
Transport
- Support for active travel enhancements in the local area
Safety and security
- Design and oversight of the built and landscaped environment to ‘design out’ crime and encourage positive behaviour
- Interventions to tackle anti-social behaviour, crime and minimise reoffending
Education and opportunity
- School-based programmes to support young people’s development
- Support to both reduce levels of child poverty and to prevent the negative impacts of child poverty on children and families
- Support for families and young children
- Funding to help families with the cost of childcare where it may alleviate cost of living pressures, or support employment
- Support for community-based learning and development