There are now 90 community groups across England benefiting from a whopping three million pounds from the Community Spaces fund -that’s an average of just under £300,000 per region! 

20 of these projects have launched, including a natural play project by the Rogate Appeal for a Playground (R.A.P) group in Hampshire; a nature trail & access improvement project by the Friends of Bennion Pools in Leicesterhire; and Skerton Community Association’s community garden project in Lancashire.

See the New Start website for our blog about Prince Charles’s visit to the Community Spaces-funded Westgate project at Ventnor Botanic Garden in the Isle of Wight: http://www.newstartmag.co.uk/blog/article/a-regal-start-to-second-year-of-funding-for-community-spaces/

If your Community Spaces project has opened or is close to opening please tell us about it here. We’d love to hear what you’ve got planned…