£1.5m for Community Choices Fund
People to have more say on how money is spent.
Communities across Scotland are to benefit from £1.5 million funding which will give people more power to make decisions directly on spending in their local areas.
The Community Choices Fund is targeted at work in deprived areas, and for the first time community groups as well as public authorities, including local authorities, were able to apply for funding to organise their own Community Choices budgeting events.
The fund received well over 100 applications with 16 successful community projects and 12 public authorities spanning the breadth of Scotland. A full list of successful applicants is provided below.
The projects include:
- The Joint Community Councils of Moray, £46,500 to use the Community Choices process to help tackle social isolation
- Aberdeen City Council, £100,000 to target the 8 most deprived areas in the city to help reduce community isolation
- Edinburgh City Council, £81,895 to support events on health and hate crime
- North Carrick Community Benefit Company, £95,868 to recruit 8 community participation champions from underrepresented communities
- Burnfoot Community Futures Housing, Hawick £39,000 to address social and community needs.
Local Government and Housing Minister Kevin Stewart said:
“It’s the commitment of this government to give communities more control to shape their futures. I am delighted to see communities applying for Community Choices funding and to read about the innovative and creative ways communities are working to address the issues that are important to the people in their community. It is also pleasing to see that we have engagement with Community Choices right across the country from Shetland to the Scottish Borders.
“The Community Choices Fund offers an opportunity for decisions to be made by people in their local communities who are best placed to know what their community needs.”
The Community Choices Fund builds on the Scottish Government investment in participatory budgeting over the last two years.
More information about participatory budgeting is available at: http://pbscotland.scot
A full list of the projects is below:
Public authorities
| Organisation |
Project Title |
Funding |
| Aberdeen City Council & Community Planning Aberdeen |
U Decide |
£100,000 |
| Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership |
Aberdeenshire PB Programme |
£93,000 |
| Clackmannanshire Council |
Community Matters |
£37,000 |
| East Ayrshire Council |
You Decide |
£63,000 |
| Edinburgh City Council |
City of Edinburgh PB Programme |
£80,000 |
| Falkirk CPP |
Community Changes |
£48,000 |
| Fife Council |
Forward West Fife |
£30,000 |
| Highland Council |
Highland Decides |
£62,000 |
| North Ayrshire CPP |
Your Money You Decide |
£66,525 |
| Perth & Kinross Council |
Local CPPs |
£55,000 |
| Shetland Islands Council |
Shetland Community Choices |
£67,480 |
| South Ayrshire Council |
South Ayrshire Decides - Phase 2 |
£46,500 |
Community projects
| Organisation |
Project Title |
Amount |
| Ardenglen Housing Association Social Committee, Castlemilk |
Cost of School Day - reducing the impact of family poverty |
£47,586 |
| West of Scotland Regional Equality Council, Glasgow |
Over to you - B Empowered |
£74,996 |
| Burnfoot Community Futures Housing, Hawick |
Hands Up Burnfoot |
£39,000 |
| Cambuslang Community Council, South Lanarkshire |
Greening Cambuslang: changing neighbourhoods for the better |
£58,960 |
| East Ayrshire Tenants & Residents Federation, Kilmarnock |
EATRF: Working Together for Better Communities |
£85,000 |
| Girvan Youth Trust, South Ayrshire |
2Kare for South Carrick Award Scheme |
£29,959 |
| Kirkconnel and Kelloholm Development Trust, Dumfries and Galloway |
KKDT Community Choices PB Fund |
£23,500 |
| Leith Links Community Council, Edinburgh |
CommUNITY Links Brightening local lives |
£20,869 |
| Maryhill Housing Association, Glasgow |
Vocalise to Localise |
£25,000 |
| Melness and Tongue Community Development Trust, Highlands |
Up North! Community Chest |
£22,410 |
| North Carrick Community Benefit Company, South Ayrshire |
Participate, Activate, Regenerate (PAR) |
£95,868 |
| North Glasgow Housing Association Ltd |
Young Voice of North Glasgow |
£70,000 |
| The Joint Community Councils of Moray |
Moray Chooses |
£46,500 |
| tsiMORAY |
#YouChoose |
£47,500 |
| Voluntary Action Orkney |
Your Island Your Choice |
£34,225 |
| Young Peoples Futures (YPF), Glasgow |
Spirit of Ruchill/Possilpark |
£25,455 |
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