UK Shared Prosperity Fund (2025-2026)
UK Shared Prosperity Fund (2022-2025)
Just Transition Fund (2021-2031)
Place Based Investment Programme (2020-2026)
Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (2015-2026)
Energy Transition Fund (2022-2025)
UK Shared Prosperity Fund (2025-2026)
The UK Government announced an additional year of UKSPF funding for 2025-2026 with Aberdeen City Council being allocated £2,346,857, this funding must be spent and activity delivered by 31st March 2026.
There are three distinct priorities within the UK Shared Prosperity Fund:
1. Communities and Place.
2. Supporting Local Business.
3. People and Skills.
At this time applications are being sought under the Communities and Place priority. More information on the fund and how to apply is available here: UK Shared Prosperity Fund - Aberdeen City Council | Aberdeen City Council
UK Shared Prosperity Fund (2022-2025)
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK governments ambitious levelling up agenda and a significant component of its support for place across the UK, providing £2.6 billion of new funding for local investment by March 2025.
Aberdeen City Council was allocated £7.1m of UKSPF by the UK Government over a period of two and a half years (2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025)
The UKSPF is split into four different strands of support in Aberdeen: Communities & Place, Local Business Support, People & Skills and Multiply. Projects that have been funded through the Communities & Place strand of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in Aberdeen include:
- Aberdeen City Council - Danestone Community Centre Feasibility – A feasibility study to explore how to create a more flexible space and expand capacity at the Danestone community centre was conducted. The feasibility study provided a range of options to achieve this and meet the growing community demand, while also supporting the development of new services to meet the community need.
- Police Scotland - Finding solutions is critical to preventing avoidable drug and alcohol related deaths and the damage drug use causes. Part of the solution is the implementation of effective early intervention. This project is in partnership with the Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation (DSMF) to run a pilot of their full drug education programme in three schools in Aberdeen City. Schools have been chosen in priority areas, to ensure this makes a positive difference to those young people, their parents, carers and the wider communities.
- Greyhope Bay - A 9-month strategic master planning and feasibility project for phase 2 of the Greyhope Bay project: co-designing a sustainable future for Greyhope Bay and the monument of Torry Battery, that meets the needs of the community of Torry and Aberdeen.
More information on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund is available here: UKSPF allocations - GOV.UK
Just Transition Fund (2021-2031)
In 2021 the shared policy programme in the Bute House Agreement committed to establish a 10-year £500 million Just Transition Fund for the North East and Moray. The Fund was announced in recognition of the need to diversify the regional economy away from carbon-intensive industries and to capitalise on the opportunities, including jobs and prosperity, that the transition to net zero will bring. The Scottish Government are currently reviewing the future objectives and delivery plan of the Just Transition Fund.
Place Based Investment Programme (2020-2025)
The 2020-21 Programme for Government announced the creation of a Place Based Investment Programme Fund with £275million of capital funding to support community led regeneration, town centre revitalisation, community wealth building and 20-minute neighbourhoods.
The Scottish Government allocated £975,000 to Aberdeen City Council in 21/22 and £847,000 in 22/23. Projects supported included:
- Union Terrace Gardens: Play Park Proposal – Part of a multi-million-pound regeneration project of the area, to increase footfall in the city centre.
- Belmont Filmhouse: Accessibility Programme of Works – To remove physical barriers to access for audiences and participants.
- Aberdeen Arts Centre: Children’s Theatre project - To install accessible toilets and ramp.
- Aberdeen Performing Arts: Repair, Rebuild, Revitalise project - To install LED lighting, purchase new equipment, extend the stage and install window facing digital screens.
- Aberdeen Inspired: City Centre Parklets Phase 2 project - To extend the highly successful ‘Parklets’ concept to Justice Mill Lane.
- Woodside Gateway: Street Design project - A new mini-park that creates a warm welcome to the neighbourhood through sculpture, planting and the reinstatement of the fountain.
- Greyhope Bay: Greyhope Bay Centre project - A dolphin viewing centre, community/ education space and café at Torry Battery.
- Donside Village: Tillydrone Gateway Feature - To install a contemporary piece of art on the south side of the Diamond Bridge.
More information on the Place Based Investment Programme is available here: Capital investment for regeneration - Regeneration - gov.scot
Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (2015-2023)
Delivered in partnership with COSLA and local government, the fund supports locally developed place-based regeneration projects that involve local communities, helping to tackle inequalities and deliver inclusive growth in deprived, disadvantaged and fragile remote communities across Scotland.
The following projects were awarded funding from the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund in Aberdeen City:
2015-16- Middlefield Community Project Development
2016-17- Station House Media Unit Redevelopment
2017-18- Tillydrone Community Hub
2019-20- Torry Community Hub
2023-24- Inchgarth Community Regeneration Hub: Aberdeen City Council secured funding of £1.9 Million for the extension of the Inchgarth Community Centre from the Scottish Government in 2023. It is expected that practical construction works would commence in Spring 2025 and practical completion would be achieved in Spring 2026. After this, there would be a fit-out required to the extension.
Due to the current unprecedented pressure on capital investment budgets across the public sector this fund is currently paused. More information on the Regeneration Capital Grant Fund and projects funded by it can be viewed through this link: Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (RCGF): projects 2014 to 2024 - gov.scot
Energy Transition Fund (2022-2025)
Aberdeen City Council received £15 Million of funding from Scottish Government's Energy Transition Fund to further develop and deliver the city’s innovative hydrogen programme. This funding enabled the development of a third hydrogen supply station at TECA, the further deployment of hydrogen vehicles, and funding to upgrade existing hydrogen refuelling stations in Kittybrewster and Cove.