Riverside Carlisle - Housing management services
Rating: Fair service | Promising prospects for improvement
As part of the agreement to transfer stock to a housing association, Riverside Carlisle (RC) agreed to re-invest £400,000 a year into local communities. This funding pot has provided core funding for a number of environmental, economic and social initiatives and projects in Carlisle. It has been particularly successful in attracting match funding and using the funds to attract other funding for investment locally. Since 2002, RC has committed grants worth £3.4 million and a total of £11.1 million in partner grants to benefit local communities.
Approximately 84 community projects have received £8.4 million in funding to transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods. Initiatives range from helping people into training and employment, supporting the credit union, providing sporting and other diversionary activities for young people and other environmental projects. Local people decide priorities for expenditure that shows 43 per cent is spent on activities for young people and children, 24 per cent on more regular police patrols and other crime prevention activities, and 15 per cent on cleaner, greener and safer environment initiatives.