The purpose of this fund is to rejuvenate and reanimate high streets across York and North Yorkshire, with key objectives including boosting the resilience of town centres and high streets to expand their offer and increasing events and activities that can attract residents and visitors.
Indicative £10 million funding across 2024 to 2028 approved in principle and subject to detailed programme design.
Latest Updates
As of Friday 31 January 2025, Phase One of the Vibrant and Sustainable High Streets Fund is now live. Further information can be found on this webpage.
We will keep you updated with the latest news here as this fund progresses.
Prospectus
Please find a link to the Vibrant and Sustainable High Street Fund Prospectus
- Phase one is open for applications from Friday 31st January. Applications will close on Friday 21st March 2025.
- Grants of £5,000 to £40,000 are available to local partnerships.
- Local partnerships are encouraged to consider projects that support the growth and resilience of town centres and high streets, and that will build leadership, partnership, and networking opportunities for stakeholders.
- Funds will offer revenue and capital opportunities.
- Projects must deliver activity between May 2025 and December 2025.
Key Outcomes
- Support town centres and high streets to improve their resilience and expand their local offer.
- Increase the number of events and activities attracting people to use their local town centres and high streets.
- Support activities aimed at reducing the number of vacant units (where it’s an issue) and increase footfall (where it is currently low).
- Improve perceptions of town centres and high streets within local communities and for visitors.
Before you apply
Before you complete the following application for Vibrant and Sustainable High Streets Fund – Phase One, please ensure that you read and/or completed the below guidance.
- Read the Prospectus in full
- Familiarise yourself with the Application Form Questions
- Familiarise yourself with the Additional Application Information spreadsheet to be submitted with your application. A completed example version of the Additional Application Information spreadsheet is available to view
- Read the Routemap to Carbon Negative Summary
- Prepare to supply your key contact details and organisational information. Prepare to supply this for any partner organisations too
- Prepare to upload letters of support for your project from partners and stakeholders
- Prepare to upload a copy of your organisation’s latest audited accounts
- Prepare any further supporting evidence you would like to submit with your application
Saving your progress
- You can save your progress and return to your application form at a later time. To save progress, please select ‘Save’ at the bottom of the form. You will then be presented with a pop-up message asking you to ‘Sign up to save submission as a draft’.
- Please select ‘Skip Create an Account’. You will then be offered the choice of saving a draft URL link or entering an email address. If opting to send by email, please use the email associated with your application.
Next Steps
- Ongoing engagement with the York and North Yorkshire High Street Forum and other stakeholders for the further development of the programme.
- Applications submitted for Phase One will be appraised following the submission deadline.
- Phase Two to launch by summer 2025.
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