UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)

Tendring District Council has been allocated £1,188,232 via the Government Shared Prosperity Fund, to be spent over financial years 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25.

The aim of the fund is to allow local authorities to work alongside partner organisations to deliver projects which build pride in place, support high quality skills training, increase pay, employment and productivity growth, and improve life chances.

Applications for the third year of the fund opened on 15 April 2024, with a comprehensive list of offerings detailed below:

Open calls and grants for 2024/25 UKSPF which will include:

• Open Call for projects enhancing the existing cultural, historic & heritage institutions offer - deadline 2 June (E4)
• Measures to reduce the cost of living, improve energy efficiency & combat fuel poverty, deadline 2 June (E13)
• Open Call for projects which stimulate the visitor economy - deadline 2 June (E17)
• Open Call for town centre animation projects - deadline 16 June (E16)
• Open Call for skills projects including basic, life, and career skills, and financial support - deadline 30 June (E34)
• Open Call for projects to support employed people to address barriers to education/training - deadline 30 June (E37)
• Open Call for projects to support green skills courses within Tendring – deadline 30 June (E39)

We will also be relaunching, via the UKSPF, the following popular grant schemes:

• 'Extend the Season' Events Grants, for towns and villages, of up to £1,000 - No deadline, closes when funds have gone (E16)
• Sports & Leisure Widening Participation Grants of up to £1,000 - CLOSED (E10)
• NEW for 2024/25, Shopfront Improvement Grants, of up to £5,000 - No deadline, closes when funds have gone (E1). This grant will be opened within the next few weeks, please check back for more details.

Forms for all of the above can be found on this page and if you have questions regarding your application, please email tendring4growth@tendringdc.gov.uk  

To access the allocation, TDC was required to produce an Investment Proposal for Government signoff, proposing spend against a number of government suggested interventions.

The initial investment plan submission can be viewed here

Government guidance on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund can be viewed here: UK Shared Prosperity Fund: prospectus - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

View the relevant privacy notice.

Project Proposals for Visitor Economy, Creativity & Culture Interventions E4 and E17

‍Project Proposals for Intervention E13: Measures to reduce the cost of living, improve energy efficient & combat fuel poverty

UK Shared Prosperity Find Extend The Season Events Grants

Project Proposals for Town Centres Intervention E16

Shared Prosperity Fund Project Proposals for People & Skills Interventions E34

Shared Prosperity Fund Project Proposals for People & Skills Interventions E37

Shared Prosperity Fund Project Proposals for People & Skills Interventions E39