Community groups and charities in Plymouth are being invited to apply for thousands of pounds’ worth of funding through the Tesco Bags of Help scheme.
Applications are now officially open for 2020, and anyone can nominate groups and charities benefiting local communities. Three groups will be awarded grant amounts of £2,000, £1,000 or £500 every three months.
Devon County Council has welcomed long awaited news of more than £4 million of funding for road safety improvements on two A-roads in Devon.
The Department for Transport has announced that Devon has successfully bid for Safer Roads Funding, with the County Council set to receive £1.9 million for improvements on the A3121 and £2.2 million for the A3123.
Businesses in the UK are shunning traditional overdraft and loan facilities from the high street banks according to in-depth nationwide study.
The SME Finance Monitor, which is funded by the high street banks themselves, shows that 50% of small and medium-sized companies describe themselves as “permanent non-borrowers” which is up from 33% from 2012. Indeed, only one in three SMEs are...
Plymouth’s vision of powering the regeneration of the city through culture is paying off with £16 million worth of Arts Council funding coming to the city.
The amount of ‘National Portfolio Organisation’ investment from the Arts Council England coming to Plymouth is set to almost double with 10 thriving arts organisations to receive regular funding from 2018 to 2022.
Scientists from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PUPSMD) have received funding of more than £58,500 from BRACE, a charity which supports research into Alzheimer’s disease, for a pilot study to investigate how a failure in our cells’ ‘recycling centre’ could hold the key to new drug therapies for dementia diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease...
A multi-million pound investment to transform the look and feel of the city centre is being planned as part of an ambitious £266 million investment programme.
The Cabinet is being asked to approve up to £27 million for the scheme in the capital budget – the Council’s fund used to invest in the city, in land or physical benefits that will improve Plymouth for its residents and visitors...
A charity dedicated to helping the homeless will be able to provide homes to rent thanks to Plymouth City Council’s innovative Social Enterprise Investment Fund.
PATH, Plymouth Access to Housing has been awarded £127,500 under the fund to enable the charity to buy and lease properties.
The fund means the charity can expand its offer to help the homeless in Devon by providing...
Over £2,300,000 of developer contributions are to be allocated to a number of projects designed to help the city grow and flourish.
A number of delegated decisions have been signed off this week following a meeting of the Council’s Capital Investment Board – which meets every month to allocate capital funding or authorise more detailed work to various projects.
Ridgeway School has been awarded £2 million for building improvements.
The money has come from two Capital Improvement bids that were submitted to the Education Funding Agency earlier this year.
The first project will be to provide a two storey extension that will house a state-of-the art Performing Arts Centre. This new building will have music classrooms, practice rooms,...
Plymouth City Council has been awarded £60,000 of Government funding to deal with rogue landlords.
The news comes after the council submitted a bid to the Department for Communities and Local Government's Rogue Landlords Fund. The additional funding will support existing work and enable more to be done with trading standards, voluntary providers supporting tenants, and working with...
