Category: Research

The Lifelong Loan Entitlement

From 2025 the Lifelong Loan Entitlement will replace the two existing systems of publicly funded higher education student finance loans and Advanced Learner Loans.

This will give people the opportunity to train and retrain throughout their lives and widens access to more support for mainstream qualifications.

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Community Ownership Fund

More community projects are set to benefit from funding to rescue prized local assets, such as sports clubs, music venues and historic buildings, as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities launches the third round of its £150 million Community Ownership Fund.

Changes to the fund will make it easier than ever for community groups to seize back control of prized local assets that are at risk of being lost forever – helping to strengthen and level up communities and restore optimism, hope, and pride in the UK.

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Planning career support for young people

The Housing Minister has announced more students across England will benefit from a £5,000 bursary to pursue careers as planners designing greener neighbourhoods and thriving towns.

Over 50 young professionals with be offered a bursary through the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) to
study a planning masters, attracting the next generation of students aspiring to train and work in the
planning sector.

This funding from the Department for Levelling Up will back more careers in the planning sector, helping
councils recruit staff and create better communities that people are proud to call home.

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Factories receive government support to grow the economy, cut emissions and reduce energy costs

Heineken is receiving £3.7 million to upgrade their Manchester Brewery, including installing technology to recover waste heat from the refrigeration systems used to cool their beer.

Toyota in Derby is receiving over £282,000 to introduce new airless paint sprayers, which use static electricity instead of air, to reduce the amount of energy they need.

Britvic Soft Drinks will use £4.4 million to implement new technologies, including a heat recovery system and Low-Temperature Hot Water network, at its site in east London, where it produces drinks such as Tango and Robinsons.

Kellogg’s in Wrexham will receive funding for a study assessing the possibility of recovering the waste heat from their cereal manufacturing processes to reduce their gas usage.

Tate and Lyle Sugars, which supplies nearly half of all the sugar and syrup on UK supermarket shelves, is receiving over £71,800 to explore how to reduce natural gas use at their Thames Refinery

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Blue lights, green energy: £77 million for new zero-emission vehicle projects

The scheme will support more than 4,400 jobs across the UK over the next decade. Life-saving emergency services will benefit from greener zero-emission vehicles, thanks to £77 million in new funding for projects developing clean transport technologies, announced recently.

The HYER POWER project, to develop a hydrogen fuel-cell range extender for specialist electric vehicles in demanding roles like fire engines and ambulances is just one of seven pieces of work across the UK that are getting joint Government and industry backing.

The schemes, which range from work on battery-powered buses, to a hydrogen-powered version of the iconic Ford Transit van, will support more than 4,400 jobs across the UK over the next decade, from Bath to Ballymena.

Investing in the development of cutting-edge technologies in key industries will help deliver on the government’s priority to grow the UK economy.

 

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