Doncaster Council

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF)

This was a special non ring-fenced grant which was made available to England’s most deprived local authorities, to enable them in collaboration with the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP), to improve services, narrowing the gap between deprived areas and the rest of the country.  Full details of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal and the NRF Programme can be found on the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit website: www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

NRF was a targeted grant that could be spent in any way that tackled deprivation in the most deprived neighbourhoods. The grant was intended as time-limited funding to facilitate the more effective, long-term targeting of mainstream resources.

NRF was particularly, but not necessarily exclusively, used in relation to the achievement of:

• national floor targets

• local targets - initially identified in the Borough Strategy, but more recently identified within the Local Area Agreement (LAA)

• other deprivation-related Government targets.

Performance of the 2006/08 NRF Programme was reported to the DtS Board on a quarterly basis. 

From 2007/08 NRF operated in the context of Local Area Agreements (LAA).  Doncaster’s LAA demonstrates how key delivery partners are narrowing the gap between the most deprived areas and the rest of the country by including within it mandatory outcomes with a neighbourhood renewal focus. 

More Information

If you would like more information on the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund please do not hesitate to contact:
Angie Goodwin, Programmes Officer using the contact details provided at the top of this page.