Funding for communities, place and local businesses

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) will help strengthen communities, build pride in place and increase life chances across the UK.

We've been given £1,843,103 for 3 years until 31 March 2025.

To use this funding, we had to share a plan for our priorities, outputs and outcomes we'd deliver across two themes.

Our plan for community and place

For this theme, our focus is on placemaking activities that support our approach to build community wealth.

Activities include:

For this theme, our activities will support businesses in Royal Greenwich to thrive, innovate and grow.

Activities include:

helping businesses become London Living Wage employers
support for food businesses who struggled during Covid-19 and the cost of living crisis
start-up business support programme giving seed funding to create cooperative start-ups
programmes that promote tenders from local suppliers

We'll deliver the following projects both in-house and externally procured delivery.

Community Playground - Greenwich Pride in Place
Festive Lighting Programme
Cutty Sark Area Environmental Accessibility Project
Arnott Close
Leslie Smith Square
Voluntary Community Sector Volunteering - Greenwich Community
Cost of Living Outreach Support - Greenwich Community
Evaluation and targeting of projects - High Street Data Service (HSDS) - GLA - Greenwich Pride in Place
Cost of Living Community Stakeholder Event - Greenwich Community
Outreach and inclusion events programme - Greenwich Community
Tourism Visitor Economy Project - Greenwich Pride in Pace
Neighbourhood Parades - Greenwich Pride in Place

Greenwich Support to Business London Living Wage, staff retention and business resilience
Business support to local food businesses
Generative Start Up Business Support Programme
Greenwich building capacity - Fit to Supply
Greenwich Supports Business Advice Programme including Start Up
Business Support-Building Legacies