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 Labour helping London's Pensioners |
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We've announced a major package of aid to boost pensioner incomes. In London this means:
• Nearly 950,000 pensioners have seen the biggest rise in basic state pension for a generation
• Nearly 340,000 pensioners aged 75 or over are eligible for free TV licences (one per household)
• Nearly 1,100,000 pensioners got the winter fuel payment last winter worth £200 per householdWe're committed to ensuring every community shares in the country's rising prosperity. In London
this includes:
• £525m under the New Deal for Communities initiative, over ten years for ten projects to tackle multiple-deprivation and social exclusion
• Over £227m of Neighbourhood Renewal Fund was allocated to support 19 Local Strategic Partnerships
• £9.3m as part of the Safer and Stronger Communities Fund (SSCF), Neighbourhood Element funding and £14.7m Cleaner, Safer Greener funding allocated to Local Strategic Partnerships
• From 2007/08, NRF and SSCF resources will be fully pooled into Local Area Agreements
• In 2006/07 the Government Office for London, working in partnership with The Scarman Trust, awarded small grants of up to £2,000 from DfES's Community Champions
Fund to over 220 individuals
• 74% of the Champions are from Black and Minority Ethnic communities. GOL's budget for 2007/08 will allow grants to be awarded to up to 230 more people this year
• Through London's ChangeUp programme the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) received £6.2m from 2004-06 to build their capacity to deliver public services and support communities. A further
£2m of ChangeUp funding has now been secured from CapacityBuilders
• Tackling Extremism Delivery Fund: The Government has provided £2.3m as an additional element within SSCF/LAAs to support work on tackling extremism. These funds will form part of the resources
received through the LAA. 23 London Boroughs will benefit, although the funding criteria are likely to be focused on multi-borough actions
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