Seventeen community buildings including a football stadium, cinema and pubs as well as open spaces such as a park and nature reserve are to benefit from a £5.5m Government fund which will to help them reopen to the public or improve their existing use.
All the projects have been designated as community assets.
Each will receive between £100,000 and £500,000 from a £5.5m Department for Communities and Local Government community assets fund, managed by the Social Investment Business Group. This brings total funding under the programme to £12m since 2012. A further £3.5m will be available later this year.
Community assets benefiting from the funding include a disused bakery in Anfield that will reopen as a social enterprise and housing project, the King’s Arms pub in Shouldham, West Norfolk, which will be bought by the community and refurbished, and the Bexhill Playhouse cinema with the aim of bringing it back into use.
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