More than £6m backed 96 Carmarthenshire community projects

Ninety-six projects across Carmarthenshire received more than £6 million through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund Sustainable Communities Programme over three years, according to Carmarthenshire County Council. The programme has now ended.

The funding covered projects dealing with access to services, sports and leisure facilities, poverty, the circular economy, heritage, culture and the environment. The council has not published a project-by-project award table in its announcement, so the distribution of the money cannot be compared from this release alone.

Which projects were supported

Examples named by the council include the Dolen Teifi community transport scheme, Pethau Pawb's Library of Things, improvements at Ferryside Lifeboat Station, children's play areas and local sports facilities. The release does not say how much each named project received.

Dividing £6 million by 96 gives £62,500 per project. Because the council says the total was more than £6 million, the true simple average was above that figure. It is only a scale indicator: individual awards may have been much higher or lower.

Across a three-year programme, 96 supported projects is an average of 32 projects a year. That does not show when grants were awarded or when the work was completed, because the council has not provided an annual split.

What happens after the programme

The council says its Bureau service will continue to provide funding information, training, networking and support for voluntary and community organisations. It has not announced a direct replacement fund of the same size in this update.

The headline totals show the reach and minimum scale of the programme, but an outcome assessment would need the final spend, grant list, delivery status and measured results for each project. Those details are not included in the council's announcement.