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Carlisle City Council is providing local businesses with free access to its local business support and grant portal provided by Open4Business. This is tailored for the Carlisle area and includes local, regional and national schemes.

Business can also search for funding relevant to their size and sector. To use the portal, you will first need to register with Open4Business.

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UK Shared Prosperity Fund

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14 December 2022/Categories: Grants_and_Funding

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) is part of the Government’s Levelling Up agenda. It provides £2.6 billion of new funding for local investment by March 2025. All areas of the UK will receive an allocation from the Fund. The fund replaces the current EU structural funds, which will have finished by the end of 2023.

The primary goal of the UKSPF is to help build pride in place and to help to increase life chances across the UK.

Carlisle has been allocated a funding allocation of £4,104,659.

 

Investment Plan

We submitted an investment plan to Government on 31 August 2022 to secure our funding allocation. The funding is allocated annually over the next three years up to March 2025, with the majority of funding available in the final year of the programme. This investment plan was approved by Government on 5 December 2022

Carlisle City worked closely with Allerdale Borough Council and Copeland Borough Council as we will together form Cumberland Council from 1 April 2023. We ensured that the priorities of our three investment plans are closely aligned to enable delivery by the new authority.

During preparation of our investment plans we consulted with a variety of partners and stakeholders through focus group sessions and an expression of interest survey. A Local Partnership Group has also been formed made up of representatives from strategic organisations from across the local area. Our investment plans were shaped by feedback from this consultation and engagement, an assessment of the ambitions, needs and opportunities of the area and the priorities of our Council Plan.

 

Funding available for projects in 2022/23

As part of our investment plan, we selected a number of interventions and the outputs and outcomes we aim to achieve through this funding. The interventions Carlisle have selected for support in 2022/23 are:

Community and Place

  • E1: Funding for improvements to town centres and high streets, including better accessibility for disabled people, including capital spend and running costs.
  • E4: Enhanced support for existing cultural, historic and heritage institutions that make up the local cultural heritage offer.
  • E6: Support for local arts, cultural and creative activities.
  • E8: Funding for the development and promotion of wider campaigns which encourage people to visit and explore the local area.
  • E12: Investment in community engagement schemes to support community involvement in decision making in local regeneration.
  • E14: Funding to support relevant feasibility studies.

Supporting Local Businesses

  • E16: Investment in open markets and improvements to town centre retail and service sector infrastructure, with wrap around support for small businesses.
  • E17: Funding for the development and promotion (both trade and consumer) of the visitor economy, such as local attractions, trails, tours and tourism products more generally.
  • E30: Business support measures to drive employment growth, particularly in areas of higher unemployment.

Due to limited funds and the requirement to deliver at pace, Year 1 projects will be targeted at a limited number of specific projects for E1, E4 E8, E12, E16, E17 and E30. An open call for projects for E6 and E14 is now open.

All other projects will be asked to apply for Years 2 and 3 in early 2023.

For more information, visit our News webpage.

The closing date for submission of applications is Wednesday 21 December 2022 at 5pm.

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