Round 10 is the biggest yet with 12 themes covering priority areas:
- After Dark: managing the night-time economy
- Digital Inclusion: tackling exclusion and promoting life chances
- Cohesive and Resilient Communities
- Homes for the Future
- Cutting Red Tape: delivering real economic and social benefit through better regulation
- Olympic Games and Paralympics Legacy: using the opportunity of hosting the games to encourage communities to be more active
- Positive Engagement of Older People: to support and promote greater independence and well-being in later life
- Preventing and Tackling Child Poverty
- Strategic Commissioning
- Supporting Independent Living for Disabled Adults
- Raising Economic Prosperity through Partnership
- Better Outcomes for People and Places
Each of the ten bids submitted in July for Round 10 will go through a process of assessment and short listing, visits and presentations before ministers announce successful applicants in March 2009. Any future rounds are likely to follow a similar timetable.
Over the previous nine rounds the North East has achieved considerable success with 48 successful schemes. Following round 9 last year the North East was awarded:
- Darlington: better public places
- Middlesbrough: tackling climate change
- South Tyneside: local strategic partnerships and local area agreements
- Sunderland: reducing health inequalities, reducing re-offending
- Tynedale: better public places
