The fund being distributed is Community Infrastructure Levy monies. This means all projects that are successful in gaining funding will be about making the most of our city’s assets for the benefit of increased numbers of people living in and using our fine city.
Please note, anything taking place on private land, in a building or on council-owned spaces (including parks, roads or verges) will need approval by landlords or landowners first, especially if there is ongoing maintenance which someone else would be responsible to pay for. Ensure you have this confirmed permission before applying and who will pay for any ongoing maintenance.
Examples of things we will fund are:
Parks and green spaces
- Litter picks, anti-litter campaigns or recycling projects
- Planting improvements
- Community art projects or sculptures
- Activities within the park (eg sports, arts, horticulture, fitness)
Play and youth activities
- Physical equipment in community spaces
- Non-physical play (eg painted games on courtyards or walls)
- Activities within communities (eg youth club setup, young people’s sports club development)
Resident activities
- Activities to bring residents together
- Community learning projects
- Sports and fitness activities
Environment
- Recycling and reuse projects
- Improvements to wildlife on green spaces
- Community workshops and training in environmental maintenance
- Social enterprise initiatives to monetise waste products (non-profit-making)
- Projects that tackle inequalities in less prosperous areas (eg food growing and distribution projects)
Community space regeneration
- Turning waste space into community gardens or seating areas
- Murals on graffitied walls or garages
- Improvements to resident facilities in shared space (eg washing lines or improved shed storage)
Community safety projects
- Antisocial behaviour projects (eg good neighbour initiatives or peer-to-peer support)
- Road safety projects (eg speed awareness or community camera schemes if not police-funded)
- Road improvements
Accessibility projects and improvements
- Making community spaces more accessible to more residents (eg wheelchair access, dementia friendly spaces)
- Projects to create more diverse use of activities or spaces (eg activities that join up communities of identity or interest)
- Projects that focus on integration of new residents into the city from the UK or abroad (where there is evidence that the increase is linked to city growth)
- Projects that create a sustainable services for those with higher needs (eg an older people’s garden maintenance scheme)
Training and skills
- Training that empowers residents to adopt or maintain council land (eg horticultural training)
- Training that improves the provision of community activities (eg training to run older people’s fitness or in key qualifications like food hygiene to provide new community cafes)
- Sustainability training and support for community groups to become financially stable in delivering key resident services with increased demands
- Training aimed to be cascaded throughout more residents or groups for ongoing benefit (eg train-the-trainer training)
Community buildings
- Improvements to existing facilities to allow them to offer more activities, improve accessibility or allow them to open longer for more use
- Investment in equipment to provide ongoing income or financial security
- Emergency repairs/improvements that mean community buildings are not at risk of closing their services
Community equipment and tools
- Establishing shared resources needed by multiple residents or groups (eg a community tool or toy bank or sharable community cinema equipment)
- Providing setup equipment for activities of services to be run using them (eg ovens and cooking equipment for a community healthy cooking club, sports equipment for new youth teams in growth areas)
This list is only provided as inspiration and is not designed to restrict your creativity!
