Hartlepool Partnership

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF)
To help take forward the Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy the Government made Neighbourhood Renewal Funding (NRF) available from 2001 to 2008. Hartlepool received NRF because it had 9 wards within the 10% most deprived of wards nationally according to the Index of Multiple Deprivation that was produced in the year 2000. NRF enabled service providers within Hartlepool to respond more effectively to the needs of residents within the Neighbourhood Renewal Area and to improve core public services.

The Hartlepool Partnership was responsible for allocating the NRF and split the allocation across the following themes of the Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy:

Jobs & the Economy
Lifelong Learning & Skills
Health & Wellbeing
Community Safety
Environment
Housing
Strengthening Communities

The NRF programme was evaluated in 2007 and this evaluation has been used to inform the Working Neighbourhoods Fund programme beyond March 2008.

Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF)
The Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF) was introduced in April 2008 to replace the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) and incorporates the Deprived Areas Fund (DAF). The focus for the WNF is on the following outcomes:

- increasing enterprise
- improving employability
- improving skills

Over 60 projects are currently been delivered through the programme across all themes of the Community Strategy, all projects provide monitoring information quarterly which is subsequently reported to the Theme Partnerships of the LSP and to relevant Council Portfolio holder.

Click here to view Themed breakdown of WNF programme

Click here to view details of all WNF projects

Neighbourhood Element (NE)
The Neighbourhood Element (NE) was introduced in April 2006 as part of the Safer, Stronger Communities Fund (SSCF). The funding has been provided because Hartlepool has a number of areas that are within the 3% most deprived nationally according to the Index of Multiple Deprivation.

Within Hartlepool it has been agreed that funding will go towards the 4 eligible neighbourhoods with the funding split by population number. Each neighbourhood has chosen one theme of their Neighbourhood Action Plan (NAP) to focus on so that they will be able to demonstrate the impact that the NE funding has made. The neighbourhoods who are receiving NE and the themes that they have chosen are as follows:

Burbank - Health
Dyke House/Stranton/Grange - Community Safety
North Hartlepool - Community Safety & Strengthening Communities
Owton - Strengthening Communities