Neighbourhood Renewal is a key Government initiative to deal with the serious problems being experienced by people living in the poorest neighbourhoods in the country.

The initiative has meant additional funds for Wakefield District over the last five years of £18,866,000, which is being spent in those parts of the District experiencing problems such as higher than average unemployment, poor health, high crime, low educational and skill attainment and poor physical environments.

The Partnership has responsibiity for Neighbourhood Renewal in the District and has decided where these additional funds should be spent across the District.

To assist decision making one of the first things done was to carry out detailed research to identify areas of deprivation below the ward level across the District. The research was carried out in two phases:-

• For the findings of the first phase research which was carried out by the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURs) at the University of Birmingham (See 'Related Downloads': Neighbourhood Trajectories and Social Exclusion in Wakefield - 5mb pdf file)
  
  
• For the second phase report, carried out by the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University, (See 'Related Downloads': Neighbourhood Deprivation in Wakefield - 1.7mb pdf file) 

Over 80 projects have been funded from NRF across the District since 2001, for further details of current projects please see the links below: