Community Investment

Caerphilly County Borough Council is investing in skate parks, outdoor gyms, play areas, car parking and landscaping throughout the borough.

With investment from the OPCC, Ongo has helped to tackle crime, improve the environment, and offer a community grants scheme in Westcliff.

The Kickstart programme offers funding for up to 25 hours’ work, but Livv Housing Group says it will fund each placement up to 30 hours.

The £2.5m centre on Manor Oaks Road, Wybourn, is being built by Great Places Housing Group and will be named after Pat Midgley, who passed away last year.

Ongo has provided over 1,200 tenants with benefits advice and supported those entitled to extra benefits to claim more than £95,000 in total.

Cobalt Housing and Liverpool John Moores University have won mKTP funding to improve the quality of life for residents of north Liverpool.

The HACT roadmap is intended to help social landlords use social value data to improve services, decision-making, and impact.

Sovereign’s Your Community Your Choice participatory budgeting scheme will operate from December 2020 to March 2021 via a digital platform.

Wrekin’s latest Social Value Report lays out how the provider generated £55.9m of social value in the local economy during 2019-20.

Beyond Housing has hired a dedicated caretaker to maintain the Church Lane North estate, Eston, during a “significant” regeneration project.