FUNDING AND FINANCE OPPORTUNITIES

The Brownfield Housing Fund is now closed, but you can still get in touch if you want to discuss any housing and development opportunities in South Yorkshire with our Growth Hub team, who you can contact via website, email and phone.

If you would like to find out more about the Brownfield Housing Fund, read our press release.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) is a new three-year fund running from 2022/23 that replaces European Structural and Investment Funds. The South Yorkshire UKSPF allocation totals £46.2m, made up of £7.3m Multiply and £38.9m “Core” UKSPF. South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) will administer UKSPF for South Yorkshire’s four local authority areas.

The purpose of the UKSPF is to build pride in place and increase life chances across the UK, this will be achieved through three UKSPF priorities:

• Communities and Place
• Local Business Support
• People and Skills

You can find out more information, including a series of UKSPF webinars and FAQs on our dedicated UK Shared Prosperity Fund page.

Young People’s Mental Health and Employability Support Programme - South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (OC28S21P1837)

Call to run a project to deliver intensive, innovative and holistic support to young people with mental health issues – through a portfolio of individually tailored provision.

Through this call the Managing Authority is seeking projects to deliver intensive, innovative and holistic support to young people with mental health issues – such as sleeplessness, depression and anxiety – who are disengaged from mainstream activity and at increased risk of NEET or long-term unemployment through a portfolio of individually tailored provision. Provision will tackle the damage done by, and mitigate the impact of, the pandemic on a particularly vulnerable cohort by helping them prepare for work and transition into learning and work, including provision introduced under the Government’s Jobs Plan for long term unemployed.

The programmes of activity can be delivered across the whole of South Yorkshire by a single provider, consortium of providers or individual proposals that align with specific Local Authority areas (Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and/or Sheffield). Evidence will be expected of alignment to and partnership with existing mental health and employability services offered at local level (statutory and non-statutory provision).

For more information, download the call specification document from the Gov.uk website or visit our ESIF page.

South Yorkshire awarded over £8m in community funding

South Yorkshire organisations have successfully secured £8.2m in funding from the UK Community Renewal Fund.

South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority was designated as a lead authority by the government and worked with the four local councils in Barnsley, Rotherham, Doncaster and Sheffield to seek proposals from across the region that met the government’s stringent criteria for funding. Eleven funding bids were submitted by South Yorkshire community organisations and eight were successful. 

Read more on our UK Community Renewal Fund page

The Transforming Cities Fund (TCF) aims to improve productivity and spread prosperity through investment in public and sustainable transport in some of the largest English city regions, including the South Yorkshire region.

In March 2020, the DfT confirmed that we had been successful in securing £166m through TCF. 

For schemes in receipt of development funding within the programme please visit our Transforming Cities Fund page.

The SYMCA LEP was awarded a total of £363.7m of devolved funding through three Growth Deals with Government to invest in projects across the nine local authority areas between April 2015 and March 2021.  This funding is known as the Local Growth Fund (LGF). 

Find out more about the LGF and the projects that have been funded so far on our Local Growth Fund page.