Norfolk Insight

Norfolk County’s online data resource Norfolk Insight has been updated with the 2015 Indices. What is interesting about this site is the area profile tool which lets visitors to the site create a simple deprivation report for different areas within Norfolk – at CCG level, local authority district and LSOA.

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The Reaching Communities Fund

Reaching Communities is a £75 million Big Lottery fund for land and buildings projects in disadvantaged areas. According to the FAQs the fund is targeted at deprived areas due to significant demand, therefore applicants requesting more than £100,000 must be based in one of the 20% most deprived LSOAs in England based on[…]

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The Community Sport Activation Fund

Managed by Sport England, The Community Sport Activation Fund is a £47.5 million Lottery funding programme aiming to provide grassroots sports activity at very local levels. Amounts granted range from £50,000 to £250,000. There is a unique deprivation targeting method involved where applicants can apply without partnership funding: “If the[…]

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Richmond deprivation report

DataRich, a public data and analysis site for Richmond-upon-Thames, published this briefing note using the updated Indices statistics. The short report is an interesting example of how areas like Richmond-upon-Thames that are relatively less deprived than most can still make use of the Indices by identifying local changes in relative deprivation or[…]

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Indices of Deprivation coverage – Sunderland Echo

The Sunderland Echo featured this story on the updated Indices of Deprivation. The article highlights the local result in the employment deprivation domain: The report includes a table of the 20 worst-hit local authorities, which places Sunderland at number 13, with 18.5 per cent of working age adults in employment deprivation.

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