COMMUNITIES First areas in Wrexham are to benefit from more than £4.4m of funding during the next three years, Deputy Minister for Regeneration Leighton Andrews has announced.
Wrexham County Borough Council has been awarded £1.119m on behalf of the Gwenfro and Hightown Communities First Partnerships: Gwenfro receiving £591,410.20 and Hightown gaining £527,463.
Plas Madoc Communities First Partnership has been awarded £1.487m of Communities First funding and Caia Park Communities First Partnership £1.154m, including £200,000 for the Caia Park Early Years Forum.
The money will fund key posts, premises and associated costs in the Communities First areas from April 2009 to March 2012, as well as consultation and publicity activity across the areas.
Mr Andrews said: “The Communities First programme places local communities and local people at the heart of the planning and delivery of local solutions to local problems.”
Wales can also bid for a slice of the new £25m Outcomes Fund announced earlier in December to support activities which deliver real improvements at local level in terms of tackling key priorities for Communities First.
