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News update
Greatfield Pride In Place
The Board has been recruited and had its first formal meetings on the 7th July and 4th August. They are meeting again on the 8th September.
They now have until 17th November to engage with local residents, and write a plan and budget for the first four years.
Information can be found here Pride in Place Programme | Hull
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Meet the Board
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Wayne Anderson, Deputy Chair
Ken Bashford
Councillor Sharon Belcher
Les Bower
Jan Boyd
Simon Drinkallv
Janet Goforth
Councillor Duncan Graham
Paul Hamnett
Jennie Mason
Councillor Rosemary Pantelakis
Elise Park
Lindsey Pearson, Chair
Craig Shirt
Isabelle Tracy
Karl Turner MP (or Terence Smith to represent Karl if he is unable to attend)
More about Pride In Place
Greatfield has been granted Government Pride in Place funding of up to £2 million per year for 10 years, to help communities drive forward the changes you want to see in your neighbourhood.
Pride in Place will support improvements within the Ward, foster community engagement and strengthen social cohesion. These are the priorities for improvement in the Marfleet ward. Health and Wellbeing, Housing, Safety and Security, Work, Productivity and Skills, Education and Opportunity, Regeneration, High Street and Heritage, Cohesion, Transport
Plans will be drawn up throughout 2026 ready to start delivery from April 2027.
Endings and beginnings
Greatfield Big Local has ended as a Partnership funded by the National Lottery, supported by a national company called Local Trust, and a local company, Probe Ltd on Marfleet Lane.
We have now set up as Greatfield Community Partnership, a company in our own right, managing our own bank account and writing our own funding applications to National Lottery.
This was one of the aims of the Big Local funding from National Lottery, to increase the number of applications coming from areas that have not had much funding in the past.
We will keep you updated with news of our progress on here. Return regularly to find out what is happening.
The Directors of the new company are Steve Alltoft, Ken Crichton, Janet Goforth, Lindsey Pearson, Allison Smith, and Diane Thompson.
What we did
In April 2011 £1,000,000 was announced for Greatfield from Big Lottery Funding. Initially the project was launched by Child Dynamix at St Stephen’s, with creation of a community hub, website and social networking page for residents to input their ideas to spend the money. Greatfield was one of the first 50 areas to benefit from the Big Local Trust programme.
Since then, many wonderful ideas from residents have resulted in engaging activities to improve the estate, increase wellbeing, reduce isolation and bring prosperity.
As well as the projects illustrated on the 'What we've done' page, there have been projects to improve community space for locals - the creation of The Hub, the upgrading of both St Stephen's Neighbourhood Centre and St Hilda's with major maintenance works and revamped toilets - and provision of activities for young people including youth clubs and Guides and Brownies.
Greatfield at 60
A Moth for Amy was an art project celebrating Hull's Amy Johnson. St. Hilda's Church hosted one of the artworks as part of our City of Culture festivities.
As the Locally Trusted Organisation (LTO), Probe (Hull) Ltd gives the Greatfield Big Local partnership support in managing its funds and with staffing, and offers general technical support to the partnership as a whole.
Greatfield Big Local has also provided match funding for Probe to deliver a range of services to support local people to access employment, training, and volunteering support.
Hull KR community fun day
