Bristol External Funding Initiatives - Time Expired Programmes
The Single Regeneration Budget was created from a number of former Department of Environment grants in 1995. The first rounds of SRB had a strong housing focus, the later rounds had a much broader focus. Administration of SRB transferred from Government Office to SWRDA in 1999. The sixth and final round of SRB was held in 2000.
About half of the funding that came to SWRDA for the SRB will become part of its Single Pot grant.
SRB (Round 1) - Bristol 20/20
Allocation: £7.8 million
Operational since 1995, this scheme came to an end on 31 March 2001. It supported a wide range of projects throughout the city. Local initiatives have been complemented by city-wide projects such as childcare training, support for the development of small and community businesses and the development of information technology for economic regeneration.
SRB (Round 3) - Bridging the Gap
Allocation: £1.1 million
In development since 1997, this three year demonstration project was extended until March 2002. It has been seeking to develop new ways of enabling long term unemployed people to access employment opportunities through a range of training and support initiatives. This is complemented by working with employers to assess employment practices and identify ways of improving access to jobs. The project has been particularly successful at helping those people who are not yet ready to go into the labour market.
The project will be incorporated into a Bristol-wide employment initiative, Pathways and has also been funded from SRB6.
SRB (Round 4) - Youth Owning Urban Regeneration (YOUR)
Allocation: £1.4 million
Operational since 1998, this is a four year scheme that will come to an end in March 2002. It has developed the active involvement and participation of young people in the regeneration of their communities. The scheme is targeted at young people between the age of 10 and 18 in the existing SRB areas and Hartcliffe and Withywood in South Bristol. The scheme will seek to prepare people for work, develop their skills base and to actively involve young people.
Some of the projects that the scheme has helped have been funded from other sources. For instance, Knowle West Media project has got funding from Objective 2, SRB6 and Neighbourhood Renewal.
SRB (Round 5) - Hartcliffe and Withywood Community Partnership
Allocation: £12.15 million
Focusing on Hartcliffe and Withywood, this 7-year scheme aims to complete the social, economic and environmental regeneration of the area. The scheme started in 1999 and will run until March 2006. It is managed and run by local people and aims to tackle social exclusion, raise local aspirations and harness the development opportunities in South Bristol. The partnership has a clear local vision for the future of the area based around the following themes: learning; self-determining; inclusive; healthy; balance; safe; and working community.
SRB (Round 6) - Bringing Bristol Together
Allocation: £8.35 million
The aim of this scheme is to place local people at the centre of social and economic regeneration delivery with a bigger say and a better deal. The scheme is centred on educational attainment, lifelong learning and community safety. The aim is to develop connections between neighbourhoods, regeneration good practice and main programmes and will work by building on existing good practice in service delivery and adding value to the main programme.
Operational since 2001, SRB6 will ran until March 2007. Much of the work that the scheme did was to build capacity in communities. (Including a wide ranging development project that included a small grants pot, consultancy support fund and shared development workers with Objective 2).
Bristol URBAN programme (ERDF & ESF)
Allocation: £3.6 million
Operational between 1997 and December 2001, this three year European Union funded scheme was targeted at the inner city wards of Ashley and Lawrence Hill. The scheme sought to strengthen the economic and social fabric of the area through the development of new employment and training opportunities and supporting the growth of the local economy. The scheme places a particular emphasis on the active involvement of local people in the decision making process throughout its duration. The project's successes have included:
- created and safeguarded 208 jobs
- assisted 29 new business
- provided training, advice and guidance to over 1600 people
- built 19 enterprise workspaces
South Bristol URBAN II (ERDF Funded)
£5.5m of funding
URBAN II targets young people and includes young people as a central part its management structure. It covers a similar area to the SRB funded Knowle West and Inns Court re-vitalisation scheme and the HWCP area.
- Our Work - Jobs. £1.6m on measures to help local resident access good jobs, with an emphasis on ICT.
- Our Place - Improving the Area & Preventing Crime. £2.8m on measures to create a safe, healthy, and attractive environment to live in.
- Our Future - Young people as part of the solution, not the problem. £1.7m on measures to empower young people to become active citizens.
Rough Sleepers Initiative
Allocation: £1.9 million for 1999 - 2002 (subject to review)
Operational since 1996, this was a three year programme which has been extended. It seeks to tackle the problem of rough sleeping in central Bristol by providing a range of services to help homeless people back into housing. Measures include providing outreach services to support people who are either sleeping rough or in accommodation to help them avoid returning to the streets. Support services also include providing accommodation and assistance for those with drugs misuse problems and mental health problems.
Education Action Zone (EAZ): Achievement Partnership of Central Bristol
Bristol Education Action Zone, which started in September 2000, was the last of the EAZs across the country.
Set in the heart of the inner city, it served some of the most deprived wards in the whole south west region, with significant underattainment. particularly amongst black and minority ethnic pupils.
The 23 zone schools included St George Community School , Fairfield High School and a number of primary and nursey schools.
Lottery: New Opportunities Fund. Healthy Living Centres
Allocation: £1.2 million
Knowle West Healthy Living Centre forms part of the Knowle West Health Park, which will bring together local people and providers of health, social and leisure services to tackle health issues in their widest sense. It hopes to move the emphasis of health care from cure to prevention and encourage people to take a more active role. It is expected that the Healthy Living Centre will encompass a number of varied projects that may include support for families and children; fitness, sport and leisure; and community education.
Townscape Heritage Initiative
Provisional allocation: £1.5m
The aim of the Townscape Heritage Initiative is to greatly enhance the environment of the two historic areas of Stokes Croft and Portland Square and to restore the areas' historic properties. The City Council, in partnership with the South West RDA, is progressing the Townscape Heritage Initiative within a framework of overall regeneration in the St Pauls area.
Contact: Robin Smyth, Bristol City Council
Email: Robin.Smyth@bristol.gov.uk
Tel. 0117 9222971
New Opportunities Fund - PE and Sports
Allocation: £4.458M - April 2003 to March 2005
Bristol had an allocation of £4.458m, the second highest allocation in the South-west region.
PE and Sports are the main focus but there is also emphasis also on education, health crime and drugs.
The programme was designed to bring about a step change in the provision of/use of PE and sports facilities for young people and for the community in general. The initiative also aimed to have a long-term impact on key issues facing local communities, such as education, health, crime and drugs use.
Facilities funded through the programme were aimed to:
- Integrate and support wider local strategies to improve PE, school sport and adventure.
- Integrate sport, education and health outcomes.
- Encourage innovative approaches that make use of best practice in the design and management of facilities.
The programme played a key part in helping to increase the levels of physical activity among young people and local communities. The programme will played a vital role in developing the relationship between families, schools and between schools and their communities in supporting the development of citizenship and lifelong learning.
Creative Partnerships (Launched 2002)
Creative Partnerships, a pioneering £40 million initiative, was a cultural and creative programme. It gave thousands of school children in deprived areas throughout England the opportunity to develop creativity in learning and participate in cultural activities. Based at the Arts Council of England, Creative Partnerships developed partnerships between schools and cultural and creative organisations including architects, theatre companies, museums, cinemas, historic buildings, dance studios, recording studios, orchestras, web-site designers and many others. This programme initially focussed on 16 areas around the country, including Bristol.
The Bristol initiative was headed by Matthew Little, who was employed by the Arts Council but worked closely with Bristol City Council and other key stakeholders. Two clusters of schools were selected to work with Creative Partnerships in Bristol - Hillfields and Hartcliffe/Withywood. The programme focussed on developing a programme of creative educational work in these two areas - working with young people, their communities, the creative sector and teachers.
Contact: Matthew Little, Director, Creative Partnerships
Broad Quay House, Prince St, Bristol, BS1 4DJ
Tel. 0117 905 8874
Email: matt.little@creative-partnerships.com
Or visit the Creative Partnership website at:
www.creative-partnerships.com
Children's Fund
Allocation: £4.8m
The Children's fund is an initiative from the Government's Children and Young Peoples Unit (CYPU) started in 2001. In august 2001 the Bristol early years and Childcare Partnership applied successfully for the first wave of the fund and appointed Barnardos as the accountable body to manage the Bristol Children's Fund for a multi-agency steering group.
The Children's Fund in Bristol had a total of £4.8m to spend, including £1.6m committed to the On Track programme in Southmead. The money was used to provide preventative services to those children aged 5 to 13 years whose opportunities in life are thought to be limited by social exclusion risk factors. The fund will focus on children from Lockleaze and Knowle West, as well as those from Black and other minority ethnic backgrounds, families in transit and disabled children.
Community Empowerment Fund
The Community Empowerment Fund administered through the Government Office for the South West, is to support a voluntary and community sector network. VOSCUR and Black Development Agency are responsible for this funding.
Community Chest Fund
The Community Chest Fund is aimed at promoting and encouraging a wide variety of grass roots community activity, so that local residents can get involved with addressing the problems in their areas, and managing the solutions to these problems. Grants of up to £5,000 are available to community organisations in the Neighbourhood Renewal areas, other pockets of need in Bristol and some communities of interest. The Greater Bristol Foundation has a contract with Government Office South West to deliver this fund.