Single Regeneration Budget IV (SRB IV)

The Single Regeneration Budget supports regeneration initiatives to improve the quality of life of people living in deprived areas by reducing the gap between have and have-nots.

It supports projects aimed at:

• Improving the employment prospects, education and skills of local people
• Addressing social exclusion an improving opportunities for the disadvantaged
• Promoting sustainable regeneration, improve and protect the environment and infrastructure, including housing
• Supporting and promoting growth in local economies and businesses
• Reducing crime and drug abuse and improve community safety

SRB is delivered through the regional development agencies – in the Island’s case SEEDA. More than 900 schemes have been approved nationally, worth over £5.5 billion.

SRB comes in six annual rounds. The Isle of Wight Economic Partnership co-ordinates and facilitates four of those on the Island.

SRB IV - Building a Community Bridge to Employment

Project Descriptions:

• BMX/Skateboard Facility Park
• Bridging Initiative
• CAP Scheme
• Christopher Cockerell Memorial Playground
• Cowes Business Challenge
• Cowes Deal (Mentoring)
• Cowes Extension College
• Cowes Health Centre
• Cowes Learning Town
• Cowes Mapping
• Cowes Sports Football Club Development
• Cowes Yachting
• Cross Street Enhancement
• ECYFC
• East Cowes Skate Park
• Employers Needs Survey
• Frank James Hospital Development
• HECK
• Heritage Trail
• Ladders
• Learning to Learn Together
• Meadow Road, East Cowes Play Area
• Northwood House Feasibility Study
• School Industry Links
• Scout Hall Improvements
• Youth Internet Information

Cowes Sports Football Club Development

The Football club felt that the facilities had become outdated, unsafe and weren’t appealing for young people to join the club. In order to alleviate this element of social exclusion a development project was outlined.

The main aims of this project were to:

• Provide modern changing facilities suitable for all participants, regardless of age, gender or physical ability
• Provide modern, safe facilities for spectators
• Provide improved on-site training facilities so that players at all levels can train at the ground and feel part of the club
• Provide a seamless link between youth and adult football
• Develop a structured coaching programme, suitable for the widest range of potential users, regardless of age, gender or physical ability
• To provide the club with a sustainable income
• Build a new clubhouse including clubroom, kitchen, committee room and spectator toilets

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Cowes Yachting

Cowes Yachting is a non-profit making organisation established in 1991 to promote all aspects of yachting in Cowes. The particular focus of activities is the marketing and promotion of all aspects of the Cowes Marina, services to yachts-people and yachting and boating organisations.

The aim of this project was to employ the Southern Tourist Board to carry out a core survey of the volume and value of visitors to Cowes during the summer season as well as one specific to those visitors in Cowes Week and one in the shoulder and off-peak seasons. This can then be extended to other harbours across the Island.

Organisation:	Cowes Yachting
Project Website:	www.cowesyachting.co.uk
Project Leader:	N/A
Project Status:	Project Archived
Tel:	N/A
E-mail:	N/A
Project Start Date:	January 2000
Funding Complete:	March 2001
Funding Total:	£14,651

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Cross Street Enhancements

Cross Street was identified for improvement on January 2000 as a result of the Enhancement of the Public Realm study. The level of conflict between pedestrian and vehicle needs had made the area unsafe and unattractive.

This project was devised to provide a cohesive and attractive streetscape to Cross Street, making sure that it met the requirements of existing users whilst providing increased use by the public as a route into Cowes by giving pedestrians priority.

The specific aims were to:

• Raise the quality of a principle visitor approach to the town by improving links from a major car park
• Provide a visually attractive and useful outdoor space with the provision for outdoor eating and drinking areas
• Remove the conflict between visitor parking and delivery traffic
• To accommodate the multi-use nature of the area to allow adjoining businesses to continue commercial operations

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ECYFC

A football pitch has been donated to the East Cowes Youth Football Club by GKN Westland’s Aerospace as a goodwill gesture. It is planned that this will lead to the youth in the area staying off the streets and with a purpose in life. Older children are encouraged to help younger ones in their training and at 14 they are put through a refereeing course paid for by the club. At 16 they can do a junior team managers course, leaving with a qualification and a sense of responsibility.

This project aimed to build on this and make the process year-round by installing floodlights to allow training to continue in the winter.

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East Cowes Skate Park

East Cowes Town Council had noticed a clear need for the provision of skateboard facilities in the area. Through consultation it was decided that the site at Victoria Recreation Ground was most suitable. East Cowes has had a distinct lack of youth leisure facilities together with a related high amount of juvenile crime.

The skate park was designed to give the youth of East Cowes somewhere to skate safely and also to reduce the incidences of vandalism, public nuisance and petty theft that are all often attributed to skateboarders.

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Employer Needs Survey

This project was designed to address the requirement to identify the needs of local employers, covering both existing skills shortages and predicted ones in the future. It had two main aims:

• To gather a comprehensive picture of the needs, both now and in the future, of the existing and potential employers in Cowes and East Cowes
• To discover and illustrate how the Isle of Wight tackles meeting any identified needs

The proposal was structured to meet the first issue whilst, at the same time, indicating what additional work may be carried out to reach the second.

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Frank James Hospital Development

The aims of this project were to:

• Consider the potential sustainable community uses of the Frank James Hospital
• Scope the preferred option which was then to be presented to the IW Healthcare NHS Trust as a formal expression of interest
• Should the expression of interest be accepted, a full business plan was to be developed

Organisation:	PACEC
Project Website:	www.pacec.co.uk
Project Leader:	N/A
Project Status:	Project Archived
Tel:	N/A
E-mail:	N/A
Project Start Date:	April 2002
Funding Complete:	March 2003
Funding Total:	£45,414

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HECK

Help East Cowes Kids is a project that meets the social and recreational needs of the community of Cowes and East Cowes. Their primary activity is a Holiday Club for kids aged four and a half up to eleven and a half during all school holidays, offering good quality, low cost play facilities – allowing parents to continue working during these periods.

The secondary activities are Family Fun Nights during the school holidays, Quiz Nights six times a year and 70’s and 80’s discos four times a year. Funding was required to ensure that the project would be able to continue to deliver high quality social inclusion schemes at reasonable costs.

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Heritage Trail

Cowes and East Cowes boast a number of fine examples of Victorian Heritage, for example Osborne House and Northwood House. This project aimed to develop a Heritage Trail encapsulating Cowes and East Cowes, stimulating tourism and developing regeneration, pride and potentially employment.

The Heritage Trail was designed to provide a means of linking the two towns and, as a project, as a starting point to facilitate better working relationships between the IW Council, Town Councils, businesses, Tourism groups and the local community groups.

Organisation:	Island 2000 Trust
Project Website:	www.woodland-crafts.co.uk
Project Leader:	N/A
Project Status:	Project Archived & Moved to RDP
Tel:	N/A
E-mail:	N/A
Project Start Date:	December 1998
Funding Complete:	March 2001
Funding Total:	£50,000

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