What’s the Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF)?
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) is a central pillar of the UK authorities’s bold Levelling Up agenda and a significant factor of its assist for locations throughout the UK. To learn extra > UK Shared Prosperity Fund: prospectus – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Initiatives fall inside a number of of the next classes:
- Supporting Native Enterprise
Shared Prosperity Fund initiatives in Monmouthshire
Be Group
Communities and Place
Be Group gives alternatives to volunteers inside Monmouthshire to help them with their volunteer roles. Offering quite a lot of programs geared toward volunteers together with; meals hygiene, first help, wellbeing, safeguarding and lots of different programs that may assist volunteers overcome any obstacles they could face. Bespoke programs are additionally developed primarily based on particular wants.
monmouthshire.gov.uk/community-leadership-programme
Vacation spot For All – MonLife
Communities and Place
“A Vacation spot for all”: This undertaking goals to enhance the accessibility of the vacation spot for everybody in Monmouthshire, whether or not they’re right here for a day, per week, or a lifetime. It contains capital and income funded exercise. The capital funding will probably be used to supply grants for bodily diversifications at native cultural and heritage websites to enhance accessibility and counter the results of isolation, notably for older and disabled folks.
https://www.visitmonmouthshire.com/
Gwent Inexperienced Grid – MonLife
Communities and Place
The Gwent Inexperienced Grid is a collaborative partnership of the 5 Gwent Native Authorities and NRW, supported by a variety of stakeholders and NGOs delivering a constant strategy to Inexperienced Infrastructure administration throughout Gwent. The partnership and its programme of labor acts as a key supply mechanism that allows strategic planning, ecosystem service evaluation and planning, eco-connectivity and mechanisms that create more healthy residents, stimulates enterprise alternatives, and gives neighborhood advantages. The undertaking will assist ship a spread of outputs supporting resilient ecological networks and nature-based options, nature, and local weather actions, handle our tree and woodland useful resource, assist well being and wellbeing alternatives and assist inexperienced expertise coaching.
monlife.co.uk/out of doors/green-infrastructure/gwent-green-grid-partnership/
Collectively WORKS
Communities and Place
Collectively WORKS is a multi-faceted neighborhood hub primarily based in Caldicot, South Monmouthshire collectively ran by MCC and GAVO. It’s house to 12+ neighborhood teams who use and work together with the house on a weekly foundation, in addition to a neighborhood fridge, Makers Area, Benthic (Library of issues) and numerous wellbeing and digital inclusion providers. Additionally it is a house for collaboration and partnership working with our neighborhood colleagues from MHA, Ballot and Residents Recommendation to call a number of. TogetherWORKS has plugged an enormous useful resource hole in Caldicot and is doing a implausible job at bettering the lives of the individuals who use it.
https://www.fb.com/togetherworks.caldicot/
Regional Tourism – MonLife
Supporting Native Enterprise
Cardiff, capital of Wales collaborative advertising undertaking. This income undertaking will assist fund a regional advertising plan concentrating on abroad, group journey / journey commerce and enterprise occasions markets. The undertaking will construct on the success of earlier Southern Wales Partnership campaigns to assist recuperate and sustainably develop the area’s customer financial system following the pandemic.
www.visitmonmouthshire.com
CELT (Join, Interact, Hear Remodel)
Individuals and Abilities
The CELT initiatives supporting these furthest from the labour market with wellbeing and counselling and people in work with individually coaching wants, offering a wraparound to our Welsh Authorities funded programme Communities for Work+. Offering a weekly timetable of work-related programs in Abergavenny and Caldicot.
mccemployskills.co.uk
MCC Economic system, Employment and Abilities
Multiply
Monmouthshire Multiply is an grownup numeracy programme designed to enhance practical numeracy expertise by free private tutoring, digital coaching, and versatile programs. The main focus will probably be household studying by main faculties. Care Leavers give attention to managing funds and engagement work to supply non-accredited workshops/programs and assist contributors wanting to realize extra numeracy programs.
mccemployskills.co.uk/multiply
Yprentis
Individuals and Abilities
The undertaking will goal unemployed, these in FT training searching for employment and particular person searching for a profession change from low or unskilled work in Monmouthshire. The trainees full a 6-month fast-tracked accredited Constructing Surveying qualification, NET Zero, decarbonisation and the retrofit programs. Members will probably be register will RICS as an affiliate and the prospect to progress to full chartered standing. Subsequent employment will probably be secured on completion of the programme, the place contributors can progress onto a better apprenticeship and/or a level in college.
Darryl Williams [email protected]
Flowing Via Communities – Wye Valley River Competition
Communities and Place
The Wye Valley River Competition CIC is an arts organisation, led by artists and communities creating work with the atmosphere at its coronary heart. Bringing native folks, environmentalists, and proficient artists collectively for a artistic exploration of what’s potential. Each different yr these explorations result in the biennial Wye Valley River Competition, hosted up and down the Wye Valley.
wyevalleyriverfest.com
iConnect – Monmouthshire Housing Affiliation
Communities and Place
iConnect provides all-round digital assist starting from getting on-line, to accessing providers, searching for well being and well-being recommendation, retaining in contact with family members, making use of for jobs, in addition to sourcing gadgets and reasonably priced wi-fi.
iConnect are dedicated to pushing again the numerous obstacles that individuals have exploring the digital world and in doing so serving to them discover new pursuits, new connections, and new alternatives.
monmouthshirehousing.co.uk/information/digital-inclusion-at-your-fingertips/
In the present day’s Heritage Tomorrow – MonLife
Communities and Place
This undertaking will improve ten of the county’s Heritage websites by the implementation of the Heritage Technique Motion Plan. Actions embrace the creation of customer expertise plans for every of websites, growth of recent coaching and induction plans for web site groups, enhanced stakeholder engagement and new play and exhibition programmes.
Heritage – Monlife
Elevate – Alacrity Basis
Supporting Native Enterprise
Combining programmes and experience between two established organisations working nationally within the entrepreneurship house, particularly the alacrity Basis and Townsquare, the goal of Elevate Monmouthshire is to create a brand new ecosystem that promotes entrepreneurship, stimulates progress in new companies and helps corporations with ambitions for progress. Elevate will ship sensible commercialisation programmes and occasions that may provide assist, recommendation, coaching, and mentoring to start-up entrepreneurs and present enterprises throughout the Monmouthshire space.
Meals Resilience Programme
Supporting Native Enterprise
Meals Resilience Programme is a undertaking to assist Monmouthshire food and drinks companies. Linking producers with clients, selling profession alternatives, bettering native provide chains, and flying the flag for Monmouthshire meals and farming. One other strand of labor is to host and develop the Monmouthshire Meals Partnership as a discussion board for cross-sector collaboration on strengthening the native meals system, farm to fork.
Encourage – MCC Economic system, Employment and Abilities
Individuals and Abilities
Encourage goals to work with younger folks aged 14-19 who’re liable to turning into or who’re NEET (Not engaged in Training, Employment or Coaching). The programme operates in every secondary faculty in Monmouthshire with a chosen employee per faculty and has the addition of an outreach employee to assist younger folks with lower than 50% attendance throughout Monmouthshire. Encourage will give attention to 4 key indicators – Wellbeing, attendance, attainment, and behavior and can work in direction of reaching a qualification and life expertise with our younger folks.
mccemployskills.co.uk/support-for-young-people/#Encourage
Caru Cymru
Group & Place,
The SPF funded Caru Cymru undertaking builds on an present partnership with Maintain Wales Tidy involving all the most important Welsh native authorities. At its coronary heart, it’s about working with communities to create a cleaner, safer atmosphere and make a optimistic distinction. Key areas of focus are round lowering the influence of canine fouling, litter and fly tipping by focused interventions.
MCC SPF contacts
These initiatives are [funded/part-funded] by the UK authorities by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.