Northumberland County Council - Programmes & funding

This page looks at how the council’s programmes funding and projects are run.

Corporate programmes, external funding and projects

The Corporate Programmes and External Funding team helps with council funding applications and manages approved funding programmes from inception to closure.

The team’s responsibilities include:

programme and project management
inception and design
contract issue coordination
funding bids and business cases
technical appraisals and due diligence
external funding advice and signposting service
funding networks
funding research and production and distribution of the Funding 'e'Bulletin
state aids and legal work around external funding/financial programmes
programme and project monitoring and compliance
evaluations of programmes and projects

For further information on these and other funding services, please contact David Baird 01670 623888.

Activities

Activities are in key investments in themed areas. These include:

broadband
physical regeneration and workspace / Hub development
culture, heritage and tourism
transport
KIBs
SME investment
food and drink
rural business development
rural services and community development
historic area improvement schemes
Peregrini landscape partnership
business support programmes
employment / back to work schemes
LEADER programme management and delivery
Fisheries Local Action Group - North of Tyne FLAG
EU programme Technical Assistance
RGN - Rural Growth Network

Priority investments

The priority investment areas for Northumberland are:

Ashington town centre
Blyth town centre (Supermarket Land)
property development funds – SE Northumberland and Berwick
Rural areas and market towns
Blyth Estuary renewable energy zone (Berez) and enterprise zones
Berwick future
Amble

To deliver these key priorities, the team works closely with Arch and other teams

Contacts:

Heather Smith
corporate programmes and external funding manager