Decision details

Shared Prosperity Funds - Transitional Funding

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

The Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF) is the Government’s domestic replacement for the European Structural and Investment Programme.  All areas of the UK are receiving an allocation of SPF funding calculated by a funding formula where the funding available to Fenland District is for SPF £279k over a transitional one-year period 2025-26. Two SPF projects have been approved by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, a continuation of the business grant scheme Investment in Business with a budget of £220k and the Firebreak and Anti-Social Behaviour project with a budget of £59k.

Decision:

AGREED to accept Shared Prosperity Funding from the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority for a one-year period 2025-26.

Publication date: 19/05/2025

Date of decision: 19/05/2025

Decided at meeting: 19/05/2025 - Cabinet

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