The Regeneration Resources Team identify and manage resources for regeneration and service improvement priorities and target the resources to identified needs.
Further information on any funding stream can be requested either through the email address on the right hand side of this page or by calling 0113 395 0578.
We are currently managing the following funding streams
Single Regeneration Budget (SRB)
The national Single Regeneration Budget initiative had six bidding rounds, ending in 2000. Leeds was successful in getting funding in each of these rounds. Each round lasts for seven years and has different objectives and target areas. The final round, Round 6, finished in March 2008.
Round 6 – Aire Valley Leeds
Leeds received £12.09m of Government funding from Round 6 of the Single Regeneration Budget for the period 2000/01-2007/08. The programme aimed to make the Aire Valley Employment Area to the south east of the city centre a more attractive and accessible business location and improve job opportunities for residents in the neighbouring communities. The programme evaluation can be downloaded as a PDF from the right hand side of this page.
Green Leeds
The Resources Team provides support to Green Leeds Limited, a company that gives out grants to groups that want to carry out environmental improvements to public amenities. By public amenities we mean any space, facility or building that can be enjoyed by the general public for leisure, recreation or entertainment.
For more information, visit the Green Leeds page on this website.
Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF)
The Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) is a government grant which is targeted to England's 88 most deprived authorities. The grant is to enable Leeds' Resources Partnership to improve services, narrowing the gap between deprived areas and the rest of the country. It can be used to make improvements in whatever way partnerships consider suitable for their area and should help to ensure that mainstream services are focussed upon priority areas.
From 2007/08 the programme became one of the first budgets to be pooled under the Leeds Local Area Agreement with funding decisions tied to delivering outputs that help to deliver the local area agreement. Further information on the Local Area Agreement can be found on the Leeds Initiative website.
Infrastructure Support Fund (ISF)
During 2005, the Council's Environment and Neighbourhoods Department (formerly Neighbourhoods and Housing) undertook a review of its grant programme to the Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector (VCFS) in Leeds. From this review a new funding support framework was established which targets grant at organisations that provide generic infrastructure support to the VCFS. Information about the organisations who successfully applied for funding in the 2007/08 financial year, and the services that they provide, can be downloaded from this page.
Safer Stronger Communities Fund (SSCF)
Leeds has received Neighbourhood Element and Cleaner Safer Greener Funding through the Safer Stronger Communities Fund awarded through the Leeds Local Area Agreement. The funding is being used to support a programme of intensive neighbourhood management to improve liveability within the most needy areas across the city.
Access to Employment (A2E)
The main aim of the Leeds Access to Employment programme is to provide a range of interventions that help disadvantaged groups living in some of the City’s most deprived areas to enter employment and improve their quality of life. The programme will operate from April 2007 – March 2010, with a total funding package in excess of £5m.