Pride in Place for St Nicholas
St Nicholas has been named as a Pride in Place neighbourhood, giving the area access to up to £20 million (£2m a year) from central government over ten years through a resident-led neighbourhood model.
We will work with residents and partners to set up a Neighbourhood Board to create a ten-year Pride in Place Plan for St Nicholas, including a more detailed four-year investment plan for the first phase of delivery.
Neighbourhood Board
John Arceno is the Chairperson for the Pride in Place board.
The board members are:
- Alice McElroy,
- Ric Euteneur,
- Richard Smith,
- Emine Yeter,
- Barbara McDonagh,
- Rajendra Oza,
- Carolina Veres,
- Terrie Skulteti, and
- Kojo Wood.
Stevenage MP Kevin Bonavia and St Nicholas ward councillors Claire Parris and Matthew Hurst also act as board members.
Timeline
Following a range of community engagement events over summer 2026, the board will submit an action plan to central government in February 2027 on how the Pride in Place funds will be used.
Investment themes and examples
The range of activities the Pride in Place fund can support is deliberately broad, covering:
- regeneration,
- high streets and heritage,
- green spaces and parks,
- community facilities and resilience,
- arts and culture,
- work, productivity and skills,
- health and wellbeing,
- cohesion and community power,
- safety and security,
- education and opportunity and
- digital infrastructure
We invite St Nicholas residents to share their views on how Pride in Place funding could be spent by completing the survey below.
You can also email questions to the Pride in Place team at Stevenage Borough Council using the contact details below.
For more information and to see case studies of how funding has benefitted local communities visit the government’s pages on Pride in Place.
Friends of St Nicholas Pride in Place
We recognise there may be lots of people in the community who may not wish to, or be able to commit to a board role. We will also be setting up a Friends of St Nicholas Pride and Place Group.
This will be an informal group which will give people the opportunity to volunteer some of their time and skills in a more flexible way as the project develops. If you are interested in this, please email the team using the St Nicholas PiP email address below.