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<ul><li>In September 2022, the UK Government launched the Rural England Prosperity
Fund (REPF). The fund provides a rural top up to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, providing
allocations for eligible local authorities in England to help address the additional
needs and challenges facing rural areas.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The fund provides
capital funding to support new and improved community infrastructure. It will provide
essential community services and assets for local people and businesses to benefit
the local economy.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>As part of the fund North West Leicestershire
has received a total allocation of up to £469,090 between April 2023 and March 2025.</li></ul><p>
</p><ul><li>Local authorities are responsible for the delivery of the REPF – including
assessing and approving project applications, processing payments and day-to-day monitoring.
As with the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the REPF was designed to enable local decision
making to better target the rural priorities of places within England. Places are
empowered to identify and build on their own strengths and needs at a local level.</li></ul><p>
</p><ul><li>In addition, funding has been provided through Defra’s Platinum Jubilee
Village Halls Fund. The St John the Evangelist Church in Donisthorpe received a £75,000
towards their project which aims to transform the inside of the church into a space
which can be shared with the whole community. The improved, warmer, friendlier environment
will help the building to become somewhere that the community are happy to enter and
feel a belonging to, suitable for a variety of activities, bringing people together
to care for one another.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>This is one of 106 community buildings
which have received grants from the Fund to date and with the additional £5 million
of funding for community buildings announced in The Budget many more communities will
be able to bid for grants to help improve their buildings.</li></ul>
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