Council secures funding for greener roads maintenance trials
Funding to support projects focused on a greener approach to highways maintenance and construction has been awarded to Somerset County Council.
Platinum Jubilee Village Hall Fund open now
On Tuesday 20 December, the Government announced that the Platinum Jubilee Village Hall Fund was open for applications. The fund is managed by the charity Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) and village halls in England can now apply for grants to improve and modernise their facilities. Village halls interested in applying can request […]
Successful joint funding bid to tackle violence against women and girls
Somerset County Council and North Somerset Council have jointly secured an additional £317,694 from the Home Office Safer Streets Fund to continue to make public spaces and streets safer for women and girls. This follows the success of the neighbouring councils’ 2021 campaign ‘It can stop if we change together’. This raised awareness, tackled sexual […]
Funding secured for additional ISVAs and IDVAs in Avon and Somerset
The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) has secured additional funding for three Independent Sexual Violence Advisors (ISVAs) and three Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVAs) to further support victims across Avon and Somerset. Following a successful bidding process working with Local Authority partners, the OPCC will receive an additional £706,608 over a three […]
Somerset and Dorset receive £1million funding boost to support thousands of people into skilled jobs
Somerset County Council and Dorset County Council have been awarded nearly £1 million funding from the Department for Education’s National Skills Fund to run a third round of Skills Bootcamps. The Train4Tomorrow Skills Bootcamps are training courses up to 16 weeks long, providing adults with the opportunity to retrain into high-demand job roles in sectors […]
Arts front and centre thanks to funding award
Arts and culture across Somerset are set to benefit from the creation of a Somerset Cultural Strategy following a £30,000 grant awarded by Arts Council England. Over the next year, the aim is to produce a five-year cultural strategy for the new unitary Somerset Council which comes into being in April 2023. Community priorities will […]
Have your say on how Somerset should prioritise £7m UK Shared Prosperity Funding
A questionnaire is now open giving Somerset residents and businesses the chance to have their say on how more than £7m of funding should be spent to help build pride in local communities and increase life chances. Somerset has been allocated a total of £7.26m of funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) to […]
Second round of funding to boost Somerset business recovery
Businesses in Somerset are being urged to bid for grants to help them recover from the economic hit of the coronavirus pandemic. Somerset County Council has launched a second round of the Somerset Restart and Recovery Programme to support strategically significant businesses badly affected by Covid-19 and successive lockdowns. These could be organisations that often […]
Building for the future with the Somerset Climate Emergency Community Fund
Children in Stogumber have been learning about things we can do to combat the impacts of climate change in the village’s new outdoor nature shelter. The new outdoor learning space is one of 43 community projects that have been funded through Somerset County Council’s £1.5m Climate Emergency Community Fund to help make the county more […]
Grant funding available for business groups, clusters and networks
Business groups in Somerset that have been negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic are being given the opportunity to apply for grant funding this month. The grants are worth up to £5,000 and can be used by business groups (including Social Enterprises), networks and clusters to aid the recovery from Covid. The scheme is particularly […]
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