Community Regeneration Fund
In December 2004 the Scottish Executive established a £318 million Community Regeneration Fund (CRF) to run for three years to bring improvements to Scotland’s most deprived areas and help individuals and families escape poverty.
This fund replaces the Social Inclusion Partnerships and Better Neighbourhood Services (BNS) funds and builds on the lessons and good practice from these programmes.
Community Planning Partnerships set out how they intend to use the funding, alongside their own resources, to deliver specific regeneration outcomes through three-year Regeneration Outcome Agreements (ROAs).
Ministers have to date approved agreements for:
The Executive also has six Closing the Opportunity Gap (CtOG) objectives for driving forward its commitment to tackling poverty and exclusion.
The principal purpose of the CRF is to achieve the CtOG objective of:
“regenerating the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods, so that people living there can take advantage of job opportunities and improve their quality of life”
and the related target of:
“promoting community regeneration of the most deprived neighbourhoods, through improvements by 2008 in employability, education, health, access to local services, and quality of the local environment”
Creating the CRF reflects our desire to move from a project-based to a more strategic approach to tackling our national priorities of improving the education, health and job prospects of Scotland’s most deprived communities.
The CRF allocation to Scotland’s 32 Community Planning Partnerships for 2005/2008 based on the most deprived 15 per cent of areas under the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004 (SIMD04).
The Index ranks areas of around 750 people, called data zones, from the most deprived (No.1) to the least deprived (No. 6,505). Two-thirds of the CRF has been allocated to the most deprived 15 per cent and the remainder those community planning partnerships with above average (for example, more than 15 per cent) concentration of deprivation in their area.
Related links
CSGN 2007/07 Community Regeneration Fund Financial Guidance (April 2007)
The treatment of Equalities in draft Regeneration Outcome Agreements (June 2007)
Community planning and the public sector duties (February 2007)
Using evidence to mainstream equalities in regeneration
LGBT community involvement guide
Integrating Social Inclusion Partnerships with Community Planning Partnerships
Community Regeneration Fund – Terms and Conditions of Grant
Announcement of Community Regeneration Fund (12 July 2004)
Announcement of CtOG Targets and CRF 3-year allocations (9 December 2004) (archived press release)
