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£100 million in Enhanced Renewal Grants
The Skills Funding Agency has announced that forty six colleges were successful in their application for Enhanced Renewal Grants.
Demand for the Enhanced Renewal Grant was extremely high with the Agency receiving 129 applications totalling over £200 million. All applications went through a rigorous assessment and moderation process by the Skills Funding Agency against the needs based criteria, which were consulted and agreed with the Association of Colleges’ Capital Reference Panel.
With the Renewal Grant allocations (most of which were paid to eligible colleges in November) the total funding available for allocation from the Comprehensive Spending Review for the current and next financial year is £100 million.
The Chief Executive of the Skills Funding Agency, Geoff Russell said:
“The Government's willingness to make this additional investment is an indication of the crucial role that Further Education colleges can play in providing skills training to regenerate local communities and the economy. The standard of bids received was extremely high and we are pleased that some of the most innovative projects have been chosen with the result that more young people, adults and employers will benefit from up-to-date, inspirational learning facilities.”
In addition, nineteen applications exceeded our quality threshold but could not be funded within the available £100 million fund. Some or all of these may be funded if additional funds are confirmed as being available. BIS and the Agency are considering possible additional funding options which might allow the projects to be funded. These colleges will be advised by the end of January 2012.
Colleges that are to receive an Enhanced Renewal Grant are as follows:
Barking and Dagenham College
Bexley College
Blackburn College
Boston College
Calderdale College
Cambridge Regional College
Canterbury College
Carlisle College
Chelmsford College
Chesterfield College
City of Bristol College
College of West Anglia
Cornwall College
Derby College
East Berkshire College
East Riding College
Filton College
Guildford College of Further and Higher Education
Hopwood Hall
Huntingdonshire Regional College
Leeds City College
Newcastle College
Northbrook College Sussex
Norton Radstock College
Norwich City College of F and HE
PETROC
Rotherham College of Arts and Technology
Salford City College
SEEVIC
Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology
South Leicestershire College
South Staffordshire College
South Tyneside College
Stockport College
Stoke on Trent College
Telford College of Arts and Technology
Thanet College
The Bournemouth and Poole College
The Oldham College
Trafford College
Waltham Forest College
Warwickshire College
West Nottinghamshire College
Weston College
Wigan and Leigh College
Wirral Metropolitan College
For more information on the Enhanced Renewal Grant programme
