Community initiatives

Enabling Communities

‘Enabling’ communities means supporting local communities to do things for themselves and to have greater influence and control over what happens to them.

Community Partnerships

Community Partnerships are an exciting way we bring ideas to life by working together on local priorities.

Community Safety Partnerships

Community Safety Partnerships were established to improve quality of life and keep our residents, visitors and employees safe.

Community Help Hub

Our Community Help Hub Team provide front line support to some of our most vulnerable residents.

Community grants and funding

Grant schemes and funding opportunities available to our residents and community, voluntary and faith groups, and social enterprises.

Community Right to Bid

The Right to Bid gives community groups time to make realistic bids to buy land or buildings that are of importance to the local community when they come up for sale.

Community Right to Build

The Right to Build makes it easier for local people to initiate and deliver small scale developments they would like to see in their area.

Community Right to Challenge

The Right to Challenge makes it easier for voluntary and community groups or council employees to bid to run council services.

Neighbourhood Planning

Neighbourhood planning is a Government initiative that enables local communities to influence and take forward planning proposals at a local level.

Community Led Planning

Community led planning offers people with the opportunity to help to shape the future of the places in which they live, work and play. It can help to influence the provision of housing, green space, services and facilities and a variety of options are now available for those interested communities.

Disability Forums

Disability forums are online or offline community spaces where people with disabilities, their families, and allies can connect to share experiences, get advice, and discuss relevant topics.

Pride in Place Programme

A government communities scheme which offers local people the power to shape the future of their neighbourhood. Neighbourhood Boards, made up of local people, will decide how to invest this funding, supported by their MP and the local authority.

Community Energy Programme

Our Community Energy Programme supports the delivery of community-owned and led renewable energy projects across East Suffolk.