Brighton & Hove UK Shared Prosperity Fund Investment Plan

These pages explains how the UKSPF Investment Plan for Brighton & Hove from 2022 to March 2025 was managed.

Brighton & Hove UK Shared Prosperity Fund Investment Plan summary

All authorities had to submit an Investment Plan to outline how they would achieve the aims of the fund. 

We worked with local partners including voluntary and community sector organisations, business representatives and other key stakeholders to develop an Investment Plan based on existing local strategies and plans. 

This was approved by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on 5 December 2022.

The Investment Plan outlined the challenges the city faces under three priority areas:

  • communities and place
  • local business interventions
  • people and skills support

Communities and Place

Challenges identified under the communities and place priority included the:

  • rising cost of living
  • changing needs of a growing and diverse population
  • impact of COVID-19 and health inequalities.

Opportunities ranged from investing in community resilience, capacity building and improving the inclusivity and accessibility of spaces, to supporting cultural and tourism recovery.

Local business

Challenges identified under the Supporting Local Business priority included:

  • how businesses respond to climate change
  • enabling the right environment for successful small business growth
  • the impacts of the rising cost of living on businesses.

Opportunities ranged from accessing the benefits of a circular economy and creating the infrastructure to encourage small business innovation, to supporting businesses to decarbonise their operations.

People and skills

Challenges identified under the People and skills priority included:

  • the closing of EU funding streams supporting skills initiatives
  • the effects of recession on the employment market
  • digital exclusion.

Opportunities ranged from addressing barriers and inequalities in access to the labour market and increasing digital inclusion, to upskilling residents to support climate action and ensuring access to basic skills training.