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
The board will have at least eight members, with at least 51 per cent living or working within the neighbourhood and should reflect the demographics of St Nicholas. It will include the local MP and at least one ward councillor but will remain clearly community led.
Timeline
Over the summer of 2026, the council will hold engagement events across the community to understand what areas of investment the community wishes to see. 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 will soon be organising engagement events, but welcome residents of St Nicholas to submit their feedback for potential Pride in Place investment priorities via the survey link 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.