Living Landmarks & Surrey CC

August 2005
I have been approached by Neil White, National Lottery Funding Manager for Surrey CC to enter the ‘Angel of the South’ project for the recently launched Big Lottery 'Living Landmarks' £75Million program. (Please see Neil’s email & details below).  

The Angel project has been extended somewhat from the original £2M project to a mere £60M - £75M project. Please see the following email for a brief outline of the revised ‘Angel’ project.

Email from Neil White:
Subj:   Re : Living Landmarks Big Lottery Fund Programme   
Date:   31/08/05 11:28:19 GMT Daylight Time        
From:   neil.white@surreycc.gov.uk  
To:       jeanr@surreyca.org.uk , eleanorj@surreyca.org.uk , johnwebb2003@aol.com , pwickham@surwild.cix.co.uk            
Sent from the Internet (Details)         

Dear Colleagues,
The Big Lottery Fund announced a new funding programme in the summer called Living Landmarks, which is an exciting programme aimed at bringing communities together to improve their quality of life and their environment through major capital projects    You may know about the project already, in which case then please forgive me for repeating information.  

The programme is split into two; the first part is awarding a small number of grants between £10 and 25 million to projects of regional significance, while the second part is a single grant of £25 - 50 million to a project of regional or national significance.   Statutory authorities are eligible to apply for this funding, along with the voluntary and community sector, public or private limited companies and individuals.      The type of projects they are looking for are Iconic, like the Eden Project, Angel of the North, landscape projects, bridges, etc.   They can fund capital as well as some revenue, and will consider buildings as well as landscape projects.   The catch is that the applicant has to put up 25% match--funding.    They are also looking for partnership working under this programme, and persumably this would involve County Council's working with others.

My reason for emailing is that you, or somebody within your network,  may have some ideas for a possible bid, either within your own organisation, or by working in partnership with others.  

To obtain a copy of the programme application pack please go to the Big Lottery Fund website to download the forms.   Their address is http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/programmes/living/index.htm    Alternatively, you can call 0845 0 10 11 12 for an application pack.    Initial applications have to be submitted to the Big Lottery Fund by the 6 January 2006.  

Please feel free to get back to me if you have any ideas you want to discuss - I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Many thanks  
Neil White
Funding & Development Manager
VSF&P Unit, Surrey County Council
Tel : 0208 541 8980  Mobile : 07968 832149

Although the National Lottery initially proposed the ‘Living Landmarks Competition’ in June 2005, Surrey CC couldn’t get their ‘act’ or the inevitable ‘meeting’ together until mid November 2005. Considering that the deadline was 6^th January 2006, what with Christmas & New Year, it didn’t leave much time to discuss or organise any form of proposal for an entry to the competition.

For the past 6 years I have attempted to promote and produce the Angel Gate Project, so far unsuccessfully, mainly due to the lack of funding and in particular Mole Valley DC’s  perverse attitude, to wit; “We don’t want anything controversial on our patch, thank you very much!”

Mole Valley District Council is stockbroker belt and probably the most affluent and conservative local councils in the UK; and therefore denied National Lottery Funding. However North Leatherhead along with Ashstead; (under the jurisdiction of MVDC) just down the road (M25) are officially classified as a ‘Deprived Area’ over-run with juvenile and car crime, which Mole Valley DC studiously ignore.

Living Landmarks Results & Funding:
http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_livinglandmarks.htm

Click the link above to find out who got the Living Landmark funding:
Sadly & Needless to say; Surrey CC was not on the list!

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