Central government have prepared a list of indicative interventions that they are happy for the Pride in Place funding to be spent on.
This means that activities included in the list can form part of the Pride in Place Plan without the Neighbourhood Board having to prepare a business case to support it.
The list is extensive but central government is also encouraging communities to think outside the box. They are happy for Boards to consider an intervention(s) that isn’t already on list if the community feels it better meets their needs. You know your community best!
With that in mind, we’re challenging you to see if you can come up with something completely original and to ‘beat the list’!
All ideas submitted will be shared with the Neighbourhood Board.
Indicative interventions list
We have provided a list of central governments indicative interventions below. For brevity in places we have simplified content or paraphrased. You can view the original list in full on the MHCLG website by following this link.
- Improvements to town centres, neighbourhoods, and high streets
- Creating and improving green spaces, community gardens, watercourses and embankments
- Non-domestic energy efficiency measures and decarbonisation in local businesses, high streets, and community infrastructure
- New community and neighbourhood infrastructure projects or improvements to existing ones
- Support for activities, projects, facilities and institutions that make up the local cultural and heritage offer
- Local arts, cultural, heritage and creative initiatives
- Digital infrastructure for local community facilities
- Provide safe and supportive environments for people with experience of homelessness and rough sleeping
- Modernisation of social housing
- Improving the attractiveness and liveability of homes and their surroundings
- Provide healthy and climate-resilient homes support locally
- Establish land trusts for the purpose of creating community-led housing to meet local needs
- Support local community initiatives that help residents to bring down their energy bills and to improve the energy efficiency of their homes
- Improve awareness of, and access to, support that help move closer to and into sustained employment,
- Developing and expanding existing support and networks for smaller businesses and social enterprises
- Local opportunities to bridge skills gaps and provide training opportunities
- Funding to support the development, improvement, and promotion of the visitor economy
- Measures that help identify issue and to align the community ambitions with the other organisations to deliver co-ordinated outputs (eg actions plans)
- Creation of social groups and activities, and support for existing ones.
- Festival and celebratory events
- Mentoring and buddying schemes
- Support to reduce social isolation
- Support to build capacity, capability and awareness in communities
- Community campaigns
- 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
- 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
- Support for active travel enhancements in the local area
- Improvements to local bus services
- New, or improvements to local road networks to improve access within and to the area
- Improve rail connectivity and access
- Reduce vehicle emissions
- Design and oversight of the built and landscaped environment to ‘design out’ crime and encourage positive behaviour
- Policing interventions to target crime prevention in specific locations, in particular town centres
- Interventions to tackle anti-social behaviour, crime and minimise reoffending
- Co-location of crime reduction services
- Improved town centre management
- Initiatives to reduce burglary
- 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