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TABLE OF ADDITIONAL FUNDING SOURCES for 11 – 16 High Schools, Special High schools & Colleges
FUND TARGET AREA TARGET
AGE/GROUP
AIMS
1. Children's Fund
3. Community Champions
Fund
4. Connexions
7. Excellence in Cities &
Excellence Challenge
8. European Structural
Funds: -
European Regional
Development Fund
European Social Fund
City-wide
City-wide
City-wide
5. Standards Fund City-wide
6. Education Action Zone Selective schools
City-wide
Objective 2, Priority 1 and
3, all wards except
Worsley.
Objective 2, Priority 2, the
9 most deprived wards.
Objective 3 City-wide
5-13
People in deprived communities
13-19
Launched Sept 2002
All Schools
Certain Schools
All Schools
14-64
Objective 2 ERDF
Objective 3 ESF
To ensure the social development of children, young people and their families in deprived communities.
Contact: Vin Joseph, Tel. 0161 778 0333
The scheme is managed by the Gtr M/c Community Foundation.
Applicants can apply for £300 to £3,000, (fast Track for £300).
Information is available from the City lottery team or Salford CVS .
To provide advice and guidance to all young people aged 13-19.
To help them make the most of their educational and vocational choices and development opportunities during their teenage years.
To prepare for successful transition to work and adult life.
To improve standards of education
To work together with business and community groups to develop new and innovative ways of raising standards in education
To drive up standards in schools in major cities higher and faster to match the standards of excellence found in our best schools.
To support young people at the points of transition to Post 16 & HE.
ERDF supports activity aimed at creating jobs through investment in infrastructure, business development, environmental improvement and community economic development.
ESF supports vocational guidance, vocational training, projects which improve the skills of employed people to help with job retention and other programmes enabling people to move from unemployment closer to the world of work, thereby releasing capacity.
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FUND
9. ESF continued
Global Grants
(Objective 3)
10. Neighbourhood
Renewal Fund (NRF)
TARGET AREA
Objective 3 City-wide
Blackfriars, Broughton,
Weaste and Seedley,
Langworthy, Ordsall,
Pendleton, Little Hulton,
Barton, Winton
TARGET
AGE/GROUP
AIMS
14- 64 Targeted to address issues of social inclusion. Grants may be awarded from £500 up to £6,000.
Application information from Jane Clarkson, Tel. 0161 793 3445.
Grants available for individuals, small groups and organisations.
Most deprived wards The fund is targeted on the most deprived neighbourhoods and aims to bridge the gap between the most deprived and the rest. It is specifically aimed at education and skills, work and enterprise, crime reduction, health and housing and the physical environment. The government has set “floor targets” to work towards.
Contact: Lucy Walker, Strategy & Resources, Civic Centre.
Deprived Communities As above but funds aimed at community groups and small voluntary organisations working at a local level
11. NRF Community Chest As above but will also include deprived
12. New Deal – Welfare to
Work communities outside the poorest 9 wards.
City-wide
13. New Deal for
Communities
13. North West
Development Agency
Single Regeneration
Budget (SRB)
Lower Kersal / Charlestown e.g. All Hallows, The Albion,
Irwell Park & Oakwood
High Schools
SRB 2 Broughton (finishes
March 2003)
SRB 5 Seedley/Langworthy and some City-wide programmes
Unemployed
Area based and/or theme based
Area based and/or theme based
To get people into work with support from personal advisors
This programme will support intensive regeneration and tackle the following issues. Poor job prospects, high levels of crime, educational achievement and poor health, poor housing and poor physical conditions
Supports regeneration and aims to tackle the following issues. Poor job prospects, high levels of crime, low educational achievement, poor health, poor housing and poor physical conditions.
There will be no further rounds of SRB funding.
The NWDA are looking at developing successor funding arrangements
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15. Lottery Funding
TARGET AREA
City-wide
16. Learning Skills Council
(LSC)
Standards Fund
Local Initiative Fund
(LiF)
To support the implementation of the
Salford Area Wide
Inspection Action Plan
City-wide
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TARGET
AGE/GROUP
Six distributing boards: -
Arts,
Sport,
Heritage,
Awards 4 All,
Charities,
New Opportunities,
Initially Post 16, now widened to include the
14 – 19 developments agenda
16 – 19 currently
AIMS
Arts – to support high quality arts projects by making grants for access to the arts; education through arts; production and distribution of the arts; investment in artists; and development to help build long term stability of arts organisations
Sport – to provide equality of opportunity for everyone, whatever their circumstances, to take part in sport, and helping those with talent develop into the sports stars of the future
Heritage – to preserve and enhance, or widen public access to, or understanding and enjoyment of, the physical heritage including natural habitats; urban green spaces; archaeological projects; historic buildings and sites; museum collections; historic library collections; and industrial, transport and maritime heritage
Awards for All – to fund events and projects for new groups or small groups, grants up to £5000
Charities – Community Fund to support the voluntary and community sector in setting up, running and expanding their activities
New Opportunities – to fund new and innovative projects in health, education and the environment. Can be matched with other funding programmes.
Contact: Vin Joseph, Tel. 0161 778 0333
To provide funding to support national learning targets for young people, adult and family learning.
To remove skill gaps
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FUND TARGET AREA
17. BIP (DFES) Albion, All Hallows, Buile
Hill, Wentworth High
Schools and associated
Primary schools
18. Learning and Skills
Development Agency
(LSDA)
National
TARGET
AGE/GROUP
All Pupils in identified
Schools
Post 16
AIMS
To improve identification and referral mechanisms and support agencies to improve behaviour in schools
Curriculum Support and Development through large scale government funded initiatives such as Vocational Learning Support, Key Skills
Support and the 16 – 19 Citizenship programme
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