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Funding opportunities

2 evidence-backed opportunities in Funding.

Investible Project Readiness and Blended Finance Studio

Promising public, regeneration and infrastructure projects often reach funding calls without a mature Five Case Model, tested delivery structure, robust cost and benefit assumptions, or an investible capital stack. The LCR strategy explicitly expects clear stages, delivery resources and the ability to facilitate financing discussions, while reserving the right to remove immature proposals. Operational consequences: - Councils and smaller sponsors repeatedly commission expensive bespoke support. - Evidence, assumptions and models are recreated for each funding round. - Projects enter assurance before critical delivery, commercial or financing gaps are visible. - Limited internal capacity favours sponsors able to buy major consultancy support. - Weak projects consume appraisal time before being deferred or rejected.

High-Street Fund Application Builder and Outcomes Ledger

Independent traders and community groups have viable local ideas but limited grant-writing capacity, while fund managers need comparable budgets, delivery evidence and outcomes across very different projects such as shopfronts, incubators, events and empty-unit activation. Operational consequences: Thin applications increase rejection and administrative follow-up; inconsistent outcome definitions then make it hard to tell which funded experiments should be repeated across boroughs.