The Mayor of Lewisham, Sir Steve Bullock, will be awarding £50,000 between 2008-2010 to every ward in the borough.
The Mayor's Fund will help deliver substantial improvements to local neighbourhoods.
Purpose of the Mayor’s Fund
The Fund is intended to help wards make improvements that cannot be delivered through the existing Locality Fund.
- The Fund may be used as ‘seed’ funding to attract other sources of finance.
- The Fund will support chosen assembly priorities for each ward.
- The Fund will help each assembly to make decisions and bring about change.
Funds available
- £50,000 will be available to each assembly over two years.
- £25,000 will be available in year 1 (2008-09), with a further £25,000 in year 2 (2009-10). The two amounts may be combined.
- Assemblies may add some or all of the £10,000 2009-10 Locality Fund to the combined Mayor's Fund, giving a possible £60,000 to deliver on a single project.
How the fund may be used
- The Fund may be used for a single project or many projects.
- Capital or time-limited revenue projects may be chosen.
- Projects may be delivered in partnership with other statutory or non-statutory service providers.
- More than one ward may combine funds to deliver a single project.
- Projects with a revenue implication above two years may not be chosen.
- Permanent additions to staffing structures are not permitted.
What happens next?
Suggestions on how to spend the money can come from residents, local community groups or community organisations.
All suggestions need to be presented through the relevant local assembly and must help deliver the ward's priorities.
Each assembly will begin discussing the Mayor's Fund in late 2008 or early 2009.
For more information on when your next assembly takes place please visit the individual assembly pages (on the left).