The application window for Round 2 is now closed. A full list of the SPF – RCTCBC Community Grants awarded to date is available here for 2022-2023, 2023-2024, and 2024-2025.
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and 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.
The UKSPF will support the UK government’s wider commitment to level up all parts of the UK by delivering on each of the levelling up objectives:
- Boost productivity, pay, jobs and living standards by growing the private sector, especially in those places where they are lagging
- Spread opportunities and improve public services, especially in those places where they are weakest
- Restore a sense of community, local pride and belonging, especially in those places where they have been lost
- Empower local leaders and communities, especially in those places lacking local agency.
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus
In Rhondda Cynon Taf
The UK Government Shared Prosperity Fund has been made available to Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council (RCTCBC) to enable places to invest in capacity building and infrastructure support to restore community spaces and relationships and create the foundations for social, environmental, economic & cultural development at the neighbourhood-level.
RCTCBC has made a Community Grant available with the intention to:
- Restore a sense of community, local pride and belonging, especially in those places where they have been lost
Over a 3 year period ending in March 2025 £4.3m will be invested locally.
Round 1 2022 – 2023 the SPF – RCTCBC Community Grant contributed more than £600,000 to local community Projects approved under the Lower-level threshold.
The application window for Round 2 is now closed. Applications submitted after 5pm/1700hrs on Friday 12 May 2023 will not be considered.