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Cheynes Training Sussex Hair Academy has received a funding grant of £16,500 from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) to provide information technology (IT) resources to ensure local students receive the best possible training, development and employment opportunities.Cheynes Training Sussex Hair Academy is a well…

Crawley Borough Council’s Cabinet has (at its meeting on 6 November) agreed to support the renewal of the Crawley Town Centre Business Improvement District (BID) and hold a ballot to continue the BID for another five-year term 2025-2030.The town centre BID was originally set up in October 2020 and covers one of three…

Crawley Borough Council has successfully secured £98,000 of grant funding to review how it heats 13 community centres and business units, supporting the journey towards net zero across its commercial portfolio.The funding was awarded as part of the Phase 5 Public Sector Low Carbon Skills Fund, delivered by Salix and…

Crawley Borough Council recently marked its 10-year anniversary of being a Living Wage employer. Since 2014 the council has paid its employees the Living Wage. More than 130 local authorities across the UK are signed up to the scheme but the council is the only local authority in West Sussex to do so.More than 15,000…

Crawley’s Local Plan for 2023 to 2040 has been formally adopted by Full Council at its meeting held on 16 October. This follows the recommendation by the council’s cabinet to adopt the plan after confirmation from the independent planning inspectors that the plan is sound and legally compliant.The planning inspectors…

Crawley Borough Council has been awarded over £3.85million from the UK Government through the Brownfield Land Release Fund (BLRF2) to assist in the building of around 270 new homes, with at least 150 of these destined to be affordable homes.The funding, which is being delivered in partnership with the Ministry for…

Crawley Borough Council is pleased to announce that the second recipient of its Crawley Greentech Business Growth Fund is Recycle2Trade Ltd, a pioneering small local business. Recycle2Trade has been awarded a grant of £45,100 for the development of a digital prototype to detect and monitor methane gas emissions…

Crawley Borough Council is pleased to announce its 1,000th council home has been retrofitted by Mears Group as part of a £4 million Towns Fund project to improve energy efficiency in its housing stock through a ‘fabric first’ approach and save around 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide.The council is working with Mears Group…

Seven Crawley community groups have received a total of £46,457 in grants from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).The UKSPF aims to decrease the gap in healthy life expectancy and increase opportunities between those in the most and least deprived areas in Crawley.Funding is provided to support projects that boost…

Crawley Borough Council has refurbished and reopened Meadowlands Play Area in West Green as part of a wider programme to revitalise unsupervised playgrounds across Crawley.New play equipment installed includes a tipi carousel, steel swing frame consisting of an inclusive swing seat, cradle swing and ‘you and me’ swing…