The Finance and Resources Committee decided to approve allocations from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund on 26 March 2025. These allocations include £359,000 for Business Support Grant Schemes, £49,000 for the Digital Skills Programme, and £100,000 for Tall Ships Event Site Business Opportunities. Further allocations were approved for the Healthy Minds Project (£11,000), Aberdeen Creative Industries Skills Development Initiative (£30,000), Tall Ships – Young Person Development and Employability Project (£10,000), Paid Work Placement Initiative (£73,315), HMP Grampian Project (£30,000), Green Skills Project (£85,740), People in Recovery Project (£120,000), and Life Skills Project (£161,325).