UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Burnley Community Grants Programme 2025

Deadline: 27-Jun-2025

The Burnley Pendle & Rossendale Council for Voluntary Service’s Burnley Community Grants Programme enhance the levelling up opportunity and prosperity and overcoming deep-seated geographical inequalities that have held some areas back for too long.

It is also, fundamentally, about improving people’s pride in the places they love and seeing that reflected back in empowered local leaders and communities, a stronger social fabric and better life chances.

Aims

• The UKSPF will support restoring a sense of community, local pride and belonging, especially in those places where they have been lost.
• The primary goal of the UKSPF is to build pride in place and increase life chances. People’s lives are shaped by the social and physical fabric of their communities. The local mix of social and physical capital gives local areas their unique character and shapes where people choose to live, work and invest. This Fund will improve the places people live in, and support communities.
• It will drive noticeable improvements that matter to local communities, foster local pride in place and increase life chances including health outcomes.

Priority Areas

• For 2025-26, they have mapped previous interventions into Mission-led themes across the three priority areas:
  • Communities and Place;
  • Support for Local Business; and
  • People and Skills.

Key Areas

• Applications would also be welcome that support needs and priorities in the following key areas:
  • Increasing resilience and improving mental wellbeing, enabling individuals and families to cope well, overcome barriers to achieving their potential and increase their skills.
  • Support residents who are more vulnerable, such as those with a long-term health condition, who are frail and/or have complex needs.
  • Promotes greater partnership working between the community and statutory services, and other VCF organisations.
  • Encourage the involvement of residents in the development of services.
  • Reduce social isolation, with a positive impact on health and wellbeing.
  • Supports and contributes to activities helping people because of the impact of Covid19 on their health and wellbeing.
  • Supporting people in the use of digital technology

Funding Information

• Awards from £5,000 up to £20,000 will be considered.

Eligibility Criteria

• This fund is being made available to community projects across Burnley and Padiham. There is a strong focus for small groups, quality, single locality delivery.
• Applications should support one or more of the following Outputs.
  • Number of amenities/facilities improved. (Number of community facilities and venues developed or improved to include but not limited to: energy efficiencies e.g. solar panels, LED lighting; improved access e.g. ramps, lifts; redecorating; new roof; protection from flooding.)
  • Number of tourism or heritage assets created or improved.
  • Number of local events or activities supported. (Community events bringing people together.)
  • Number of tournaments/teams supported. (Increased levels of participation in physical activity e.g. new tournaments, development of teams etc.)
  • Number of organisations receiving grants

For more information, visit BPRCVS.