Pride in Place Imapct Fund
Pride in Place Impact Fund
In partnership with UK Government, we’re going to spend £1.5m supporting communities across Pembrokeshire and we’re going to spend it where you think we should.
We’d like Pembrokeshire residents, businesses and organisations to make suggestions on what you’d like the money to be spent on in your community.
The funding can be spent on:
- Community spaces (e.g. creating, extending or improving community facilities like village halls)
- Public spaces (e.g. new or improved green spaces, play areas and public squares)
- High street and Town centre improvements
Please complete and submit the form below with your suggestions. (One suggestion on each form, but you can submit as many suggestions as you like.) All suggestions will be considered by the panel. We shall work with those taken forward to get the money to where it’s needed as quickly as possible.
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What is the Pride in Place Impact Fund?
The Pride in Place Impact Fund is a new UK Government programme intended to deliver visible improvements to high streets and improve places and spaces valued by local communities. Pembrokeshire will receive £1.5m to be committed to projects before March 2027. These funds are to be administered by Pembrokeshire County Council, but the use made of them will be decided by a panel of local politicians based on suggestions by you, the people of Pembrokeshire.
Anyone, any business and any organisation can make a suggestion or put forward an idea for a project. These will all be considered by our panel, who will identify the most promising proposals. We shall then try to identify capable and interested parties able to deliver these project proposals. Once a project idea has been fully developed and a delivery partner is in place, a grant agreement will be offered, and the project can begin.
Scope of the Pride in Place Impact Fund
The Pride in Place Impact Fund is a capital only fund. This means that whilst it can pay for purchasing or improving assets, it cannot pay for running costs. An asset in this sense is something that will last for twelve months or more.
The funding can be spent on three categories of project:
- Community spaces: creating, extending, improving or refurbishing existing community facilities and enabling community organisations to take control or ownership of underused but valued local assets.
- Public spaces: enhancing the physical environment in public spaces - examples of initiatives include new or improved green spaces or public squares, improved outdoor play, sports and leisure spaces, installing street furniture, public art or wayfinding.
- High street and town centre revitalisation: making these areas more attractive and welcoming places where people congregate and which encourage economic activity. Examples of initiatives that could be funded are shop frontage improvements, adaptations that bring premises back into use, streetscape improvements, public art, trails and wayfinding, and creating or improving the infrastructure for regular markets.
The funding is available throughout Pembrokeshire, but suggestions for projects to benefit less prosperous areas will be particularly welcome.
There is no deadline to spend Pride in Place Impact Fund grants, but ideally successful projects will aim to complete no later than 31 March 2027.
How to make a suggestion
Suggestions may be submitted through the online form on the Council’s website. Alternatively, your suggestions may be submitted by post to the Strategic Funding Team, Pembrokeshire County Council, County Hall, Haverfordwest SA61 1TP.
To be considered for funding in the first batch of suggestions, project ideas should be submitted by 31 January 2026. However, it will be possible to submit ideas after this. We shall only close the opportunity to submit ideas once all the funds are committed or on 31 December 2026, whichever comes first.
No acknowledgements will be sent to those making suggestions, due to the large number of ideas expected but rest assured every idea submitted will be seen by the panel.
What happens next?
All suggestions will be assessed and similar ideas identified. Any ineligible projects (such as ideas needing revenue rather than capital funding, or projects not taking place in Pembrokeshire) will be eliminated.
Suggestions will then be brought before a panel made up of Pembrokeshire’s Members of Parliament, Senedd Members, the Council’s Deputy Leader and the Council’s Director of Place. This panel will work to identify the most promising proposals from amongst those submitted. These will be taken forward with a view to funding being awarded.
The next stage will be to identify a suitable organisation willing and able to deliver the project and to work with them to flesh out the details of the project. This will include precisely describing the project scope, ensuring that any necessary consents are in place, specifying the project budget, and setting targets and milestones for delivery. Further guidance will be provided at that stage.