UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) was launched by the UK Government on 13 April 2022, providing £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. 

We have been allocated £1 million to support the Government’s Levelling Up commitment over a three year period through three investment priorities:

• Communities and place
• Supporting local business
• People and skills (year 3 only)

The funding can be spent on capital (physical assets) and revenue (operational) projects and the allocation is broken down as follows:

Projects completed so far with the funding are:

• Events
  
  • Dover Skate Fest
  • Saturday summer music sessions in Market Square, Dover
  • Meet the reindeers Christmas events, 2022 and 2023
  • Spring Clean campaign 2023
  • Easter fun day 2023
  • Skateboard coaching 2023
  • Fashion through the ages on Deal Pier 2023
  • Dover Dinosaur Day 2023
• Resurfacing entrance to the Roman Lawn, Market Street, Dover
• Public toilet refurbishments
• Market Square improvements (bollards, jetwashing, speakers)
• Snargate Street bench refurbishment and cycle rack
• Tourism Campaign
• Energy efficiency measures including new boilers and insulation 
• Information panels/signage 
• New town centre defibrillators and defibrillator training 
• Six new large planters and four wheelbarrows for Sandwich plus planting
• New bench for Sandwich
• New town centre seagull-proof bins
• Two new solar powered smart bins in Pencester gardens
• Cones and signs for Deal Saturday road closure
• Portable sound system for Deal town centre
• Christmas lights - 2 giant stags outside Dover's Maison Dieu
• New gazebos for Sandwich market
• Litter picking station for Kearsney Abbey
• Dover museum frontage painting
• Community grants

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