Thurrock Council has launched a new community fund, putting the power in the hands of local people to make positive changes in their neighbourhoods.
The council has allocated £250,000 from the Government-funded Pride in Place Impact Fund to give residents, community groups and small businesses the opportunity to help improve public spaces, create or improve community facilities, and rejuvenate high streets and town centres.
The Pride in Place community fund will award grants of between £1,000 and £25,000 to help improve public spaces, create or improve community facilities and help to rejuvenate high streets and town centres. Local ward councillors will be asked to lend their support to bids.
Councillor Milena Bingley, Cabinet Member Portfolio Holder for Education, Skills and Children’s Services, said: "The people who know best how to improve local areas and create or enhance community spaces are the people who live there.
"They see the things that need to be improved every time they set foot out of their front door.
"This fund will help them turn those ideas into reality and create facilities and improvements that will serve communities for many years to come.
"If you have an idea, you are passionate about that will improve the place where you live and help to restore civic pride in your community we want to hear from you.
"Thurrock is a place we should be proud to live and raise our families in. This funding puts the power in the hands of the people who know best what changes, both small or large, will improve the neighbourhoods and community spaces we all use every day."
To find out more about the Pride in Place Impact Fund, and how residents, community groups and local organisations can apply for funding to put their ideas into action visit: Pride in Place: Investing in the places that matter most to local people | Pride in Place | Thurrock Council.
