Housing Advisory Panel (HAP) Residual Levy Grants
Our newly formed Housing Advisory Panels bring together local tenants and councillors together to discuss and address local community issues. For more information about these Panels, please visit their webpage here: Housing Advisory Panels
These Panels are also responsible for awarding community grants, called HAP Residual Levy Grants.
These grants are funded by the Council’s “Residual Levy”, which is tenant levy money collected from tenants who currently have no local Tenants and Residents Association (TARA) to represent them.
The grants are awarded to help build stronger, successful communities by making funding available to local voluntary organisations, self-help groups and community projects that want to make a difference in their community and benefit those council tenants not already covered by a TARA.
The awards are currently a pilot only available in the north-east area of Sheffield, but if they are successful then consideration will be given to rolling them out across the city to other wards.
The first round of bids is now closed, the next round will open in the Autumn.
We need your views!
Over the last few weeks, local community groups have been busy putting in bids for one of these grants. All of their projects are aimed at improving the community for council tenants who aren’t already covered by a TARA.
Later this month, a panel of local tenants and Councillors (nominated from each of the local Housing Advisory Panels) will meet to assess the bids and decide which ones are successful. As part of their evaluations, they want to hear the views of other tenants living in the area about the bids being considered.
So please see details of each of the bids below, and leave your comments on any of the bids that you would like the panel to consider. Simply click on the 'Go to discussion' button to have your say.
Please ensure that any comments left are respectful and abide by our 'house rules' which can be found in a document attached at the bottom of this page.
You have until 12th June to give us your views on the bids.
