North Wales Shared Prosperity Fund

Background Information

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) is a central pillar of the UK Government's Shared Prosperity agenda.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund was established in 2022 with the aim to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills.

The UKSPF aims to achieve this through three investment priorities:

Community and Place
Supporting Local Business
People and Skills (including the ‘Multiply’ initiative to improve adult numeracy)

Each local authority decides how they wish to select projects for SPF support.

Local areas will consider the overall mix of activities proposed as well as individual proposals, to ensure that the needs of their areas and the objectives of the UKSPF investment priorities are addressed.

Shared Prosperity Fund 2022-25
In Wales, the North Wales region has been established which includes the counties of Anglesey, Conwy, Denbigh, Flint, Gwynedd and Wrexham.

All funding decisions were made locally in each area with Local Authorities deciding which projects would receive funding, advised by a partnership of local stakeholders.

North Wales was allocated £126.46million of UKSPF.

Allocation per local authority:

Gwynedd - £24,423,747
Anglesey - £16,081,937
Conwy - £24,520,120
Denbighshire - £25,064,958
Flint - £13,102,933
Wrecsam - £22,684,205

As part of the UK's Shared Prosperity programme, £24million was earmarked for the county of Gwynedd, with some of the funds committed to establishing grant funds for supporting Voluntary Sector projects.

£1.57million was allocated to Mantell Gwynedd for sharing among voluntary and community groups in Gwynedd between November 2023 and March 2025

85 applications were received and 36 projects were successful.

Below are the details and location of the successful projects.

An End of Project Report was completed detailing the groups that received a Grant which included what difference the grant had made to their group/project and community. See link for Project End Report 2023-25.

Also, as part of the evaluation of the Gwynedd Voluntary Sector Fund, Social Value Cymru completed a Social Return Investment evaluation of 3 projects namely:

Shared Prosperity Fund 2025-26
The extension to the Shared Prosperity Fund for 2025/26 continues to prioritise.

Communities and Place
Supporting Local Businesses
People and Skills

North Wales was allocated £42.4million of UKSPF.

Allocation per local authority:

Gwynedd - £8,192,058
Anglesey - £5,394,101
Conwy - £8,224,382
Denbighshire - £8,602,674
Fflint - £4,394,902
Wrecsam - £7,608,591

£650,000 was allocated to Mantell Gwynedd for sharing among voluntary and community groups in Gwynedd during 2025-26.

56 applications were received and 24 projects were successful.

Below are the details and location of the successful projects.

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Testimonials

“We see Social Value as a major vehicle for change and improvement driven from the base up via our stakeholders and front-line staff. Training all our staff has already brought a clear focus on our core themes through value maps. This wouldn’t have been possible without the guidance and support of Mantell Gwynedd”

Paul Frost, The Outdoor Partnership Social Value Champion, and Member of the Board of Directors

"The Social Value Cymru team at Mantell Gwynedd supported staff in our organisation as well as those we work closely with when engaging volunteers in understanding how the questions posed to current and potentially new volunteers would enable us to discover what we are doing well and how we can improve on engagement strategies within communities surrounding our estate.
Social Value Cymru’s support has been critical to our work and their recommendations have enabled us to make realistic amendments as we review our Diversity & Inclusion Policy alongside our Volunteer Engagement Strategy for the next 3 years."

Kirsten Manley, Engagement and Communications Officer, The Woodland Trust

“This session has been invaluable in cascading my understanding of measuring per se”

- North Wales Measure and Manage your Social Value Project participant

“The evaluation carried out by Mantell Gwynedd has enabled us to provide evidence as to the social value and impact the Change Step project has on veterans, their families and the communities they live in. From a quality perspective it has also reassured us that the work we do has an impact not only from a financial perspective but also that it breeds confidence in our service provision and those who commission our service. As a third sector organisation, which is reliant on grant funding, this level of evaluation is essential for ongoing sustainability and developing new services. The customer care aspect demonstrated by Mantell Gwynedd was second to none and their grasp of our project from the outset was very impressive”
Geraint Jones, Director of Partnerships and Development for CAIS Cyf.

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