Knowsley Community Fund
The Knowsley 2030 Strategy includes a priority to make Knowsley a place where strong and safe communities can shape their future.
The Knowsley Council Plan 2025 - 2030 is underpinned by an ethos of Stronger Communities with a clear focus placed on the Council’s role in supporting residents to thrive and helping people overcome inequality.
The Knowsley Community Fund will support Knowsley’s community and voluntary groups to contribute to the Council priorities set out in the Knowsley Council Plan 2025– 2030.
The Fund will provide organisations with an opportunity to apply for funds for new project ideas, and funds to sustain and grow established activity.
The Council Plan has a clear vision of “Supporting Knowsley’s Residents to Thrive” and is focused around three key priorities: -
- Deliver effective, high-quality services and support – that positively impact the lives of Knowsley residents.
- Encourage growth that benefits everyone – ensuring our communities and town centres can flourish.
- Deliver targeted support to encourage fairness and opportunity – for those residents facing the biggest challenges.
The Knowsley Community Fund will focus on the following priority themes:
- Encourage growth that benefits everyone – ensuring our communities and town centres can flourish. We will do this by Building an inclusive economy, Place Leadership and by Responding to the Climate Emergency and Achieving Net Zero.
(Project ideas might be employability projects, skills for life projects, training and education projects, community asset transfer infrastructure and or capital projects, green projects, projects that support the pipeline from schools into work)
- Deliver targeted support to encourage fairness and opportunity – for those residents facing the biggest challenges. We will do this by supporting Early Intervention and Prevention, Building Stronger Communities and Tackling Inequality.
(Project ideas might be hardship support projects, winter support delivery, projects that encourage physical activity, specific SEND support, positive activities that support young people, supporting the lives of disabled children and their families, mental health support, start for life projects, community cohesion projects and other general community activities).