About the Co-location fund
The Co-location Fund was set up to support capital investment in joined-up facilities.
Projects include development of facilities for children and young people's services, including children's centres; careers advice; youth clubs; health services, including mental health, drug and alcohol treatment centres; family support services; Combined Cadet Force facilities; and independent housing for young people leaving care to help their transition into longer-term, more permanent accommodation.
The funding is adding value to other sources of capital funding including BSF and Primary Capital programmes, NHS LIFT investment and regeneration funding.
Examples of schemes benefitting include:
- Essex (£50,000) - investment in a mobile facility to deliver support to young families in rural communities.
- Hillingdon (£60,000) - creation of a "virtual network", focused around using technology to engage and support the 500 young people across the borough currently disengaged from existing services and facilities because of Illness or phobia, pregnancy, bullying or disaffection, travelling, exclusion or because they are in care.
- Nottingham (£8.3m) - Development of two "joint service centres" in Bulwell and St Ann's, providing GP practices and other primary care services, library, and space for a range of other facilities including a youth centre with sports and recording facilities, play centre, housing office, and family support services.
- Lewisham (£5.5m) - As part of the development of Tidesmill School, Deptford, this project will create a range of facilities for wider community use including a library and family support services.
- Brighton and Hove (£5.4m) - Community hub that connects a primary school, GP surgery, a Children's Centre and Discovery Centre / library
- National roll-out of adiZones (£3.1m) - matched funding to support development of over 30 adiZones, providing communities with a range of sports facilities in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympic Games
