ABSTRACT
The announcement of the Single Regeneration Budget Challenge Fund (SRBCF) in November 1993 had as an integral element to increase community and voluntary group participation in regeneration (Department of the Environment 1993; Clark, 1995). Although local authorities and Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) were to be central in the bidding partnerships, other agencies marginalised in and through previous initiatives, were targeted in the new national guidance. In addition to stipulating that formal, professionally led voluntary organisations become involved, the SRBCF also stretched out a hand to the ‘community sector’ more generally. The Community Development Foundation (CDF) seized upon the ‘promises’ offered to the sector through the SRBCF:
Local communities are the key role in regeneration. They are the people whose lives and conditions are to be improved. They are also the people who are the life of the locality, so the regeneration process works best if they are also involved as consultees, participants, partners. (source: https://www.cdf.org.uk/)
