Community First was a programme that ran from April 2011 to March 2015 as part of the coalition government’s localism agenda – it aimed to improve community planning and organisation. Mostly this was through a £30 million Neighbourhood Matched Fund to provide small grants (£250 to £2500) for community projects.[…]
Read More »The Fuel Poor Network Extension Scheme was a government scheme run by OFGEM aimed at reducing fuel poverty – it provided funding towards the cost of connecting gas and installing gas heating and appliances for those with no gas supply in their home. Putting these people on the national grid should in[…]
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Here’s a 2008 article from the Guardian about delays in building the new Liverpool stadium, Anfield Plaza. The article notes how the area around Anfield is currently one of the most deprived places in England with streets of empty and boarded up houses. The area around Venmore street near the stadium[…]
Read More »The Government’s Troubled Families programme targeted support at 120,000 families identified by central government as being in need of ‘turning around’ due to experiencing multiple issues of deprivation such as high truancy rates, lack of employment, physical and mental health problems. DCLG estimated that these families cost society about £8 billion[…]
Read More »Here’s an example from the Hull Daily Mail of how local authorities use deprivation statistics to challenge funding decisions. Hull’s spending power per head of population was reduced by 24.9% in 2014 and council leader Stephen Brady points out the area has higher levels of deprivation than rural areas which were[…]
Read More »The Bureau of Investigative Journalism collected data on the locations of payday lenders around the UK, noting that due to growth of the sector “there is now one short-term loans store for every seven banks or building societies on the high street”. They created a league table of local authorities[…]
Read More »The Prince’s Trust is one of the UK’s largest charities, and spent over £52m through its charitable activities last year according to the government charities register. It’s focused on youth unemployment and poverty, targeting unemployed 13-30 year olds and those at risk of exclusion. It supports different projects and schemes[…]
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It’s before 10am on Friday morning and Howard Richards, 42, is drinking a beer outside Jaywick post office. He’s unemployed and on crutches because he’s having serious problems with his hip – he says he’s been on the NHS waiting list for months but he’s still waiting. Richards says he[…]
Read More »With rump steaks for 50p, 30 eggs for £2.10 and products from rival stores sitting alongside each other on the shelves, it is obvious that the Community Shop, which officially opened on Monday, is not the average supermarket. – Haroon Siddique, The Guardian, 15 December 2014 Community shop is the social[…]
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Source: Guardian, Campaign for Fairer Gambling The Guardian ran an article on research by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling that suggests bookmakers are concentrated in, and take more money from, areas of higher deprivation as measured by the Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2010. Find out more: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/28/englands-poorest-spend-gambling-machines
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