Within the North Lanarkshire UKSPF Programme, several interventions will be delivered through a challenge fund approach.

This approach involves inviting proposals from organisations wishing to deliver activity as part of the UKSPF programme in North Lanarkshire. Proposals will be assessed against the objectives of the UKSPF, their contribution to local priorities and the outputs/outcomes of the relevant UKSPF intervention. 

There are several interventions that have a challenge fund element to their delivery, each of which has set out criteria, minimum and maximum grant award levels and timescales for applications to be submitted: 

• Community Empowerment Fund – applications have been received and are now being assessed.  The selection of the successful projects will be through participatory budgeting exercises during 11th to 25th October. See our Community Empowerment page for more information.
• Employability Fund - applications were submitted with notification of the decision made in early October. You can find out more about the fund in the "Employability Fund - Guidance" below.

We require to process personal data relating to the individuals who are submitting the grant applications on behalf of an organisation. This privacy statement provides more information on how we will use the data you provide to us.