Decision

The decision has been made to make Round Four
awards of UKSPF funding to the following projects in South Holland
District:
Lincolnshire Community Foundation – Youth Engagement Project
(£9,537)
The project is to provide grant funding to organisations that can
deliver preventative measures to help young people at risk of
committing a criminal offence or becoming involved in anti-social
behaviour, with a focus on reducing ASB in our area. The aim is to
support 10 organisations and projects to assist with these
preventative measures. This project will be delivered throughout
the Partnership and in partnership with local policing services. It
is set to leverage in an additional £107k of match
funding.
South Holland District Council – Pride in Place Community
Volunteer Scheme (£11,181)
The aim of this project is to increase the feeling of
‘pride’ within our local communities for the places
people live, work and visit. A Trusted Community Volunteers Scheme,
led by an appointed coordinator, will increase the number of
volunteers, with a particular focus on the SELCP pride in place
scheme, by involving local people in their local communities and
also building a sense of purpose and pride in their local area.
This will support the improvement of street cleanliness, the
appearance of townscapes and the range and diversity of community
initiatives.
South Holland District Council - Spring into Spalding
(£6,000)
A one-day event to take place in Spalding town centre, with a focus
on driving footfall to businesses. The event, as well as the
activities and entertainment taking place, will be free for all to
attend. This project is an expansion of the same event that was
held in the year 2022, which was hugely successful and achieved a
number of outcomes, including: increased footfall, increased
visitor numbers, improved engagement numbers, increased
affordability of events, improved perception of events, number of
community-led arts, heritage and creative programmes.
Chain Bridge Forge - Growing Blacksmithing (£42,500)
This proposal is about giving better access to the Blacksmithing
Craft at Chain Bridge Forge. This will be achieved by promoting
Blacksmithing at the Forge and create a digital emulation that can
be accessed through the Metaverse and/or taken to special events
and schools. There will also be a series of open events at the
forge to support a greater number of local people to access
blacksmithing and traditional craft skills.
Spalding and District Civic Society - Spalding MARK-it Trail
(£43,000)
The MARK-it Trail aims to increase awareness and appreciation of
the town's heritage and celebrate Spalding’s market in its
livestock heyday (also the annual hiring fair), along with the
wider District of South Holland’s present-day importance to
the nation’s food supply. The trail would consist of
permanent high quality artworks in the town centre, sited in the
same streets as those in which animals were traditionally sold.
Within living memory there were sheep in Sheepmarket, cattle in New
Road and so on. The funding will be used to commission the first
phase of high quality art works for the trail.
Long Sutton Men's Shed - Youth Shed Phase II (£40,000)
This builds on the success of the previous, completed UKSPF-funded
Youth Shed project, which has been significantly oversubscribed.
Currently the Youth shed opens for 2 sessions per week at 4 hours
each session. This funding will support the expansion of this to
five a days a week. The member of staff employed under this fund
will then support the Youth Shed in gaining match funding from
other funding platforms to support the delivery and sustainability
of the project going forward.
South Holland District Council - Open Markets, South Holland
(£52,500)
There are currently no stalls for market traders in South Holland
and the project aims to provide branded gazebos that ensure an
attractive retail environment that would enable traders to grow
their income and to attract new start businesses. The branded and
uniform offer will improve the aesthetics for customers, increasing
footfall to our town centres, therefore benefited other businesses
and will be rolled out across the District, ensuring that areas
beyond Spalding are able to access this attractive, revitalized
retail environment and share in the benefit of this project,
including all 5 markets across the South Holland District.
Bishop Grosseteste University - LORIC (£14,413)
This Programme will support businesses to better engage with data
and new technology, as well as providing 1:1 support which
compliments the Grants 4 Growth/Advice 4 Growth offer, with a
particular focus on supporting local businesses to introduce new to
market products.
University of Lincoln - Supporting the Expansion of SLFEZ (South
Lincolnshire Food Enterprise Zone) (£87,750)
This will support the expansion of the SLFEZ, enabling the
University to reach and engage with more agricultural, food and
rural businesses. There will be a programme to promote and grow the
SLFEZ and associated businesses, as well as a skills programme to
support the sector to access the skills they need to expand.
Lincolnshire Community Foundation – Supporting Social
Enterprise (£28,178) (Awarded in Round Two, Contracting under
Round Four) – Looking to strengthen local enterprise
ecosystems and grow the local social economy by increasing the
number of charities and social enterprises operating in the
District. This will include 1 to 1 advice, guidance, mentoring from
a specialist Social Enterprise Advisor and grant funding from an
Innovation and Ideas fund for these organisations (this to be
provided as a match funding to the project).
It must be noted: These projects sit separate to the ringfenced
funding available to village halls, parish councils and community
spaces (administered by LCF), the second round of which is being
announced simultaneously. These projects are also separate to the
monies ringfenced for grants to businesses (Grants 4 Growth II),
which are now being actively disbursed by the relevant service area
within the Council.