Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) is a form of

Local Government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-loca ...

finance in

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, launched by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in July 2000. NRF is allocated to multi-agency

Local Strategic Partnership Local strategic partnerships (LSPs) exist in nearly all local authority areas in England. They bring together representatives from the local statutory, voluntary, community and private sectors to address local problems, allocate funding, and discu ...

s (LSPs) in the 88 Local Authority areas judged to be the most deprived based on the 2000

Indices of Multiple Deprivation Indices of multiple deprivation (IMD) are widely-used datasets within the UK to classify the relative deprivation (essentially a measure of poverty) of small areas. Multiple components of deprivation are weighted with different strengths and compi ...

. It is intended to be spent on the social regeneration of the areas to which it has been awarded, and on interventions designed to reduce the relative deprivations in those areas (such as health inequalities, educational underachievement and high crime rates).

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Great Yarmouth LSP
Currently funded programmes
Stoke on Trent LSP
Funded programmes 2004-2006 Local government in England Neighbourhood Renewal Public finance of England 2000 establishments in England {{UK-gov-stub

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