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Community Anchor Development Programme
£1.6m funding boost for 11 community anchor organisations across Wales.
The Community Anchor Development Programme is a new initiative from Building Communities Trust, providing 11 community organisations across the nation with £150,000 of flexible funding each, to help them respond to local challenges.
This new programme was developed following strong financial performance from BCT’s investments, providing the opportunity to build on learning from its flagship Invest Local Programme.
Applications for the new programme opened in July 2023 for eligible organisations based in areas experiencing socio-economic deprivation and with limited community assets; these areas were selected using BCT’s Wales Community Assets Index which highlights the amount of sustained, place-based inequality across the country.
The other criteria for eligibility stated that groups also had to be:
community-led or controlled with strong local networks
multi-purpose - focused on delivering a range of local actions in the community - or looking to expand to become multi-purpose
committed to the local community and responsive to issues that arise locally
committed to equal opportunities and to providing support and activities to all parts of the local community.
For further information about the programme, please click here.
“This new programme builds on what we have learned from our work with the Invest Local Programme, which has shown us that sustained community action flows from sustainable organisations. The CADP will help these anchor organisations to become stronger and better placed to face future challenges, through the provision of flexible funding and access to a learning programme where they can share knowledge and experience with similar organisations across Wales.” - Chris Johnes, Chief Executive, BCT.