About the Community Buildings Programme
Grant funding is available through the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority’s allocation of UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Rural England Prosperity fund to provide grants to Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations and Town and Parish Councils to support capital improvements to buildings available to the whole community.
The programme builds on the learning and success of the Village Halls and Community Buildings Grant Programme 2024 delivered in North Yorkshire, which is now being extended into York.
The previous programme funded 43 individual projects in 2024/2025 in North Yorkshire. Mayor David Skaith committed a further £600,000 from his Mayoral Investment Fund to help more than 20 community hubs, highlighting the success of the programme.
Programme Objectives
- The Community Buildings grants fund aims to support the following priorities: improvements to access and inclusion and improvements to facilities to promote physical and mental wellbeing; resulting in greater community participation and levels of volunteering
- The area of benefit is North Yorkshire and York
- Capital funding is available for applications that meet the priorities of the Shared Prosperity and Rural England Prosperity Funds and that can demonstrate that the project will deliver the programme’s aim to increase access to and use of community buildings
- The fund will focus on 2 key priority themes – Accessible Communities and Healthy Spaces
Successful Community Building Programme Applicants
Allerston Village Hall
Amount Awarded: £12,520.00
Project Description: Provide an internal toilet with disabled access to replace two inaccessible outside WCs that were built in 1840.
Bentham Town Council
Amount Awarded: £21,091.00
Project Description: Refurbishment of the Town Hall ballroom with a new, safe, multi-use floor to restore community use, improve accessibility and support diverse local activities
CAVCA
Amount Awarded: £25,336.00
Project Desciption: Increasingly, members of our community are coming to us for wellbeing and fitness related activities – this project will enhance our facilities to meet local need. More inclusive facilities- outdoor shaded wellness area, indoor wellness space with a kitchen to do healthy eating, fitness and activity room.
Chain Lane Community Hub
Amount Awarded: £49,950.00
Project Description: Renovating underused spaces to create accessible, inclusive, and healthy environments for community support, wellbeing activities, and improved visitor experience at Chain Lane Community Centre.
Clapham-cum-Newby Village Hall
Amount Awarded: £4,500.00
Project Description: Provide a facility in the hall so that we can show films and make it available to the whole community.
Danby Village Hall
Amount Awarded: £23,853.00
Project Description: One wall in the hall is insulated and electric radiators installed, to run off the solar panels, but we need to do the opposite wall. Insulation, rewiring, lights
Dunnington @ Grimston Playing Fields Association
Amount Awarded: £2,880.00
Project Description: Dunnington sports & recreation facilities have been the cornerstone of the local community since the 1940’s supporting the health & wellbeing of the parish & surrounding villages. Refurbish and improvements to sports club and grounds.LED lighting, first floor hearing loop & removal of ceiling and lightwells.
East Cowton Village Hall
Amount Awarded: £49,950.00
Project Description: Refurbishment of East Cowton Village Hall is to create a warm, accessible, and inclusive community space for all ages, supporting social, educational, and wellbeing activities.
Eldroth Parish Hall
Amount Awarded: £17,428.00
Project Description: To install a sprung floor to allow sports to take place safely and meet compliance needs; generating income and improving facilities for the community.
Escrick and Deighton Village Hall
Amount Awarded: £2,400.00
Project Description: Replacing current 150mm step from fire exit with accessible ramp.
Flash Company Arts
Amount Awarded: £25,032.00
Project Description: Upgrading cafe kitchen, toilets, doors and floors at Flowergate Hall to improve facilities and accessibility for inclusive community use of the building.
Fulford Parish Council
Amount Awarded: £25,208.00
Project Description: Enhancing accessibility, energy efficiency and inclusivity at Fulford Social Hall to provide a central community hub, serving a rapidly growing and increasingly diverse local community. Kitchen refit, heaters, room divider.
Glusburn Community and Arts Centre
Amount Awarded: £24,343.00
Project Description: We aim to create a fully accessible building for individuals with reduced mobility, wheelchair users, sensory impairments, and families with pushchairs, ensuring inclusivity for all.
Goathland Community Hub & Sports Pavilion CIO
Amount Awarded: £7,100.00
Project Description: To install a public footpath & an electrical power network at the community hub
Harlow Community Centre Association
Amount Awaded: £4,000.00
Project Description: Internal refurbishment of Harlow Community Centre: upgraded roof and wall insulation, new ceiling along with new wall boards, installation of LED lighting, replacement of heaters.
Hellifield Institute
Amount Awarded: £34,440.00
Project Description: Improvement of Hellifield Institute’s existing toilet facilities to enable accessible and inclusive facilities for all users.
Hipswell Village Hall
Amount Awarded: £8,564.00
Project Description: To update and implement accessibility facilities in the hall. Widen door, disabled toilet, electrics, non slip flooring
Kirkbymoorside Memorial Hall
Amount Awarded: £19,690.00
Project Description: Refurbishment of the toilets making them accessible including baby changing facilities, improvement of wheelchair access, improvements to communication facilities (for hearing/vision impaired).
Leyburn Arts & Community Centre
Amount Awarded: £7,529.00
Project Description: Ensuring LACC’s Community Shed is an attractive future proofed accessible building ready for a variety of activities and for the community’s long-term use & enjoyment.
Lofthouse memorial institute
Amount Awarded: £8,400.00
Project Description: Our project aims to replace the roof, renovate and refurbish our local village hall to improve facilities and provide a community space for all. Roof & insulate floor.
Markington War Memorial Institute Village Hall and Markington Sports
Amount Awarded: £25,600.00
Project Description: The project is to install an access ramp providing a safe entrance ensuring that everyone, regardless of mobility, can participate in community events and activities.
Masham Methodist Church
Amount Awarded: £28,632.00
Project Description: Kitchen replacement due to outdated facility. The kitchen serves the community in many ways, dementia groups, youth organisations, support for socially isolated, other community needs.
Mickleby Village Hall
Amount Awarded: £7,322.00
Project Description: To upgrade the kitchen facilities.
Next Steps Mental Health resource centre/Hub
Amount Awarded: £40,000.00
Project Description: Transforming this hub into a fully accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community hub to align with 21st-century standards, strategically located in the heart of the community. (update and improve the hub, transforming it into a more disabled accessible, ecofriendly, warm safe environment.
North Yorkshire Sport Ltd
Amount Awarded: £49,950.00
Project Description: To create gender neutral toilets, improve access to the building and improve access to internal space and circulation areas.
Poppleton Community Trust
Amount Awarded: £49,950.00
Project Description: Replacing the old windows and roof of a conservatory style community cafe to improve an already enlarged temporary space.
Rathmell School Trust
Amount Awarded: £3,000.00
Project Description: We wish to install a Hearing Loop system with a PA system across the public areas to ensure inclusivity for all members of our community
Ripon City Council
Amount Awarded: £22,976.00
Project Description: Improvements to accessibility at Hugh Ripley Hall, including the installation of a stairlift to the first floor and a disabled toilet on the first floor.
Saint Josephs Church
Amount Awarded: £19,000.00
Project Description: Upgrading Saint Joseph’s Church with eco-friendly windows and accessible, gender-neutral toilets to enhance safety, inclusion, and sustainability for the Clifton community
Sand Hutton and Claxton Village Hall 2024
Amount Awarded: £49,950.00
Project Description: Upgrading disabled access and modernising the front elevation to ensure Sand Hutton and Claxton Village Hall is welcoming, inclusive, and accessible to all
Sandylands Sports Centre
Amount Awarded: £9,576.00
Project Description: The Extension comprises a Dedicated Gymnasium for Craven Gymnastics Club, the two Meeting Rooms (primarily for Quest Karate Cub) and a Cafe (for sports users). Battery storage, changing places toilet & accessibility ramp
Sessay Community Trust
Amount Awarded: £27,960.00
Project Description: The hall, built and opened in 1971 is in need of major refurbishment and reconfiguration to meet the needs of the local and wider community. Improved disability access, small kitchen area, extend air source heating, accessible seating, bi-fold doors, access ramp
Settle Victoria Hall
Amount Awarded: £46,957.00
Project Description: Replacing archaic, obsolete, environmentally damaging stage equipment, increasing community and volunteer involvement, reducing costs, and delivering to phase 2 business plan: decarbonising community led buildings.
Sherriff Hutton Bridge Cricket Club
Amount Awarded: £47,280.00
Project Description: Improving access and warmth at Sheriff Hutton Bridge Cricket Club by adding step-free entrances, insulation, and re-roofing to support isolated, aging residents in rural North-Yorkshire
Skeeby Jubilee Village Hall
Amount Awarded: £49,950.00
Project Description: Community-led refurbishment to modernise facilities, improve accessibility, and enhance energy efficiency – reviving the village hall as a vibrant, inclusive hub for local events/activities.
Skipton Community Sports Hub
Amount Awarded: £10,950.00
Project Description: Landscaping works to enable better accessibility plus removable safety cover for package treatment plant plus planting beds for wellbeing classes, disability & dementia groups.
Slingsby Sports & Social Club
Amount Awarded: £29,928.00
Project Description: Slingsby Sports for All will create accessible, welcoming, sports and social facilities, proving a space where rural communities can lead healthier, happier lives together. Phase 2 building costs, air source heat pump, wall insulation, kitchen, solar panels.
Spofforth with Stockheld Parish Council
Amount Awarded: £39,240.00
Project Description: To make the Hall fully accessible to all guests to Spofforth – at present there are three steps into the main hall.
St George, Eastfield (Diocese of Middlesbrough)
Amount Awarded: £19,200.00
Project Description: Installation of accessible toilet, baby changing facilities, and LED lighting to improve access, safety, and inclusion – unlocking Eastfield’s only hall with a performance stage.
St Johns's Church Hall Mickley
Amount Awarded: £1,956.00
Project Description: Installation in St.John’s Church Hall of a Hearing Loop to benefit residents who have hearing difficulties when attending social events in the hall
Strensall and Towthorpe Village Hall
Amount Awarded: £10,305.00
Project Description:
1. Decorate walls in the main hall
2. Replace curtains on windows with roller blinds
3. To sand, mark out and seal the floor surface
Studley Roger Village Hall
Amount Awarded: £24,273.00
Project Description: Regeneration of Studley Roger village hall to provide a welcoming and inclusive facility that will help the community expand its calendar of events.
Sutton Way Community Hall
Amount Awarded: £35,600.00
Project Description: Transforming Sutton Way’s Hall into an inclusive, energy-efficient community hub with accessible toilets, eco-windows, and a modern kitchen for wellbeing activities.
The Darley Memorial Hall
Amount Awarded: £39,700.00
Project Description: Increasing our ability to use the village hall as a warm space through winter by fitting double-glazed windows, thermal curtains and improved heating.
The Forum Northallerton
Amount Awarded: £10,782.00
Project Description: Upgrading toilets and lighting at The Forum, a community venue welcoming over 22,500 annual visitors, to improve accessibility, safety, and comfort for all users.
The Wesley Centre, Malton
Amount Awarded: £49,950.00
Project Description: Fit-out of the not-for-profit Community Cafe and Kitchen at the Wesley Centre, as part of our wider vision for community use seven days per week.
Thornton-le-Moor Cricket Club
Amount Awarded: £25,692.00
Project Description: Community hub development to facilitate an increase in sport, promote physical activity, reduce social isolation and enhance community cohesion. Path, patio, retaining wall
Volunteer It Yourself
Amount Awarded: £14,000.00
Project Description: The project involves the refurbishment of two valued community facilities in areas of York & North Yorkshire at Hensall Cricket Club- Hensall and Horizon Hub- Harrogate.
Whitby, Scarborough & Ryedale Diisability Action Group known as Whitby DAG
Amount Awarded: £20,160.00
Project Description: Improvements to Whitby DAG community building to increase public accessibility and usage of Mobility Equipment.
Whixley Village Hall CIO
Amount Awarded: £41,584.00
Project Description: Our 100-year-old hall, which has already been extensively modernised and decarbonised, is in urgent need of improved access for impaired or disabled people.
York City Church
Amount Awarded: £35,000.00
Project Description: Transforming The Citadel multifunction space into a dynamic and welcoming Wellbeing Hub for adults struggling with their mental health, vulnerable families and refugees.