The Cardiff Shared Prosperity Fund Small Grants Scheme for 2024-25 is now live.

C3SC will host an online information session on their 2024/25 Shared Prosperity Small Grant scheme.

This fund is in partnership with Cardiff Council to explore how the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) – an initiative by the UK Government as a central pillar of the Levelling Up agenda and successor to the European Social Fund – can provide support to communities and places in Cardiff.

The C3SC Small Grants Scheme will provide grants of up to £5,000 for third-sector organisations to deliver projects which work with the aims and objectives of the Shared Prosperity Fund. This grant scheme will focus on addressing the issues detailed under the Community & Place priority, as follows:

• W1: Funding for improvements to town centres and high streets, including better accessibility for disabled people, including capital spend and running costs.

• W2: Funding for new, or improvements to existing, community and neighbourhood infrastructure projects including those that increase communities’ resilience to natural hazards, such as flooding, and investment in locally owned renewable energy generation and waste management to improve the transition to low carbon living This could cover capital spend and running costs.
• W3: Creation of and improvements to local green spaces, community gardens, watercourses and embankments, along with incorporating natural features and biodiversity improvements into wider public space.
• W4: Enhanced support for existing cultural, historic and heritage institutions that make up the local cultural and heritage offer, including improvements to access to sites to counter the effects of isolation, particularly for older people and disabled people.
• W5: Design and management of the built and landscaped environment to ‘design out crime’.
• W6: Support for local arts, cultural, heritage and creative activities.
• W7: Support for active travel enhancement and other small-scale green transport infrastructure projects, having regard to the Wales Transport Strategy.
• W8: Funding for the development and promotion of wider campaigns and year-round experiences which encourage people to visit and explore the local area.
• W9: Funding for impactful volunteering and/or social action projects to develop social and human capital in local places.
• W10: Funding for local sports facilities, tournaments, teams and leagues; to bring people together.
• W11: Investment in capacity building and infrastructure support for local civil society and community groups.
• W12: Investment in community engagement schemes to support community involvement in decision making in local regeneration.
• W13: Community measures to reduce the cost of living, including through measures to improve energy efficiency, and combat fuel poverty and climate change.
• W14: Funding to support relevant feasibility studies.
• W15: Investment and support for digital infrastructure for local community facilities.

Initial closing date for applications is 12pm on Friday 21st June.

Proposed projects can start from August 2024 and may be funded up to the end of February 2025.

Click here to sign up to the information session

For any further enquiry contact C3SC on 02920 485722 or enquiries@c3sc.org.uk